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FBI file 62-HQ-83894, section 7

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This section of FBI file 62-HQ-83894 collects Bureau correspondence and memoranda on flying saucers from 1952 to 1954. It holds letters from the public, which J. Edgar Hoover forwarded to the Air Force's Office of Special Investigations, and a 1952 teletype about a saucer-shaped light over the Savannah River Plant. It also includes an FBI Laboratory examination of the burned cap of scoutmaster D. S. DesVergers, which found no identifying residue, and instructions to field offices to refer disc reports to the Air Force.

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.PACE VIEW
SAUC SIGHTING Y IFSB MEMBERS
Exclusive! from and Sun'Oundlng Towns
SIGH rING 0. 4--0n the mom of J ,I 8, 19H in the skies to the southeut i
at time~ dirt ly over Frankolin, Indiana ap d thrtt trange object . Their .Bight v.
\\-atched hy a Luge number of men of sound ind and ,h racter. The following i lOm
piled from a PolKe report turned by C.tpt. Ltt I n, P.urolman Jack W. Moor .1nd
Patrolman Kenneth Rund of the Fr klir ln Poise Department on Monday morn
ing, July 28, 1lJ'2 at 6:00 a.m. T ,. c-re w1 n d by f?Olicemen, civilian au •
thor1t1es, ,1nd members oi the Um( at After n 1fying all proper authorit1e, of
the objects no de nite steps were t by • or oth rwi e. The report I a.s follow •
There were three objects, on ri httr than the two mailer objed~. The
larger of the three 5eemed to cast ll h ht . Its pattern of Bight seemed
to be that of a circle. It seemed to wa ccp1n track of the two ma.Iler ohjects.
The two smaller objects cast off a. ,la tmctl 11 ht ol ch ir own, one being an orange hue
,1nd th.: other a rC'(ldi h color. The two s1 r one 1:n to be in a dog fight all their
o r mce they executed barrel rolh looJ d ~pm I he m.de turns of 90 degfe'C' and
1' ?er too c-xactly 40 seconds.
m were \erified hy F I rg )lice Dept . Alan K. t -i11 al,fo rni.i.
:-, tlltd .1 ,h , ,h.iped uhJt ~ I .1 t ul l.os Angeles about 9 08 p.m . on Scp-
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