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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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, • ' . • 62-88894 - J.J.7 RECORDED ·JJte: To: Dtreotor o/ Spec,al Inveattgatlon, 11&• Inapeotor Gttn•ral Department o/ the Air Fore• Th• P•ntagon r aahtngton es, D. a. Troa: John Fdgar Hoover, Director F•d•ral Bur•au o/ Inve,ttcatton SUb'ject: l'LTING SAUCERS Th• /ollo10ln9 tn/or■atton ha, been received b11 thta Bur•au μoa tt, repr•a•ntattu• tn London, England, con cern,ng -the oopt toned aatwr: JlaJor E. P. Falkera, Provost lfarahal, u. s. Air Force Ba••, ~tlde~ha11 1 England, t11lephonicall11 oon-tacud -.,;,e writer on Februar11 141 1953, regar dtng th• new or revived ,ntsreat tn "/1'1Jir&g saucsrs." HtJ .t -tat~d he dtd no t ho ve any new in/ornatton t o rep ort but h• snew o/ an tncScun~ that took plaoe several years ago which t ht• Burttou af.gh t dt1str• to cheot. Tht• inctde nt, a ccordtng to JJaJor Wal tera, concerns an article or atory on •.t111tng .tauc•r• • whtch app•ared in a aaall newspaper wtth 1ta,wd circulotlon located a t Je//•raonut11•1 Delau~re Townahtp, Su11,uon Count11, New 1ort. He IDG8 unable to r•ooll th• naa• o/ thtt newspaper but &oas certain It la the onlg on, publ,ahed in that area. The ator11 appB~r•d In ~n-. o/ the earl11 1947 ieaue, or In one O'/ t he iaau•• cfurhag the la at thr•• •~- aontha of 1948. It •• u,rt tt.11 .bJI a ■e 111ber o/ t he , "'> ~ Tal$on _ u. s • .Anted Foro•a and 01i·,,gnt/i cane• ta the /act 1 ~~ ._' Ladd - that aubaequ•nt ,,auea /oiled,. to /allow it up bJJ ... ? ~~ ~Ni~boJs_ BcllT'Ont _ Cle44__ Gluin__ Harbo- RoS~n Tracv- l~u~hlin _ Mohr _ Winterro•d - ~::r~n~:-.= COMiA • F8J G_••-dY~--- EHJI: 6111B ,J o 1953 ff '" C,... V ~ '.J ..,. ~ i~··, / • >~~ ,~ q11 r ~ .~~.. .f,
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