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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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• ',) July 9, 1953
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President
Grand Hotel
Mackinac Island, Michigan
Dear l!r . floodfill:
rour letter of June '80, 1 953, has been
received in JJr . Hoover 18 absence from the city and
I am ~aking the liberty of acknowledging it3 r~ceipt.
Your communica~ion will be brought to his
,..- atti!ntion promptly following his return to J1a..ahin.gton .
,, /- () $1,nce rely yours,
~'\·{\-~
O'~, Helen U. Oa ndy
Secretary _/
~ cc - Detroit, with cop~lin~.
cc-Cincinnati, with coev o/ lill'C"oming.
ATTENTIO' SAC: You are instructed to thorouglj;l..y,..
check your files in an effort to determine whethtpr ?'-
or not the Jlr. Steuenson referred to by corre,svo~e71,J,
has been interuiewed by an Agent of your office. ~You
should also furnish the Bureau any information-riJhichcn
might assist in clarifying the story set forth L:b-y'. ~
Wood/ill. Sulet results no later than July l!fJ"F,11~53::.0
under caption "llr . ,'I. S. Woodfill, President, Grand :::r;.
Hotel, Mackinac Island, Michigan, Research (Crime c ~.. }, ~Ii;:}
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NOTE: Although inquiries regarding such phefuz..meWa ~ 1 ~'~{1
Tolson- are being handled by the Air Force at -this p -,::::g:e ei,t V
Lodd-- time, it is believed desirable to check the sourc.e·-n .,,"l. ~
Nichols -
ee1moo,- of this rumor and following rec e ipt of replycg>rol!J, :::. ,
g:~f.== Cincinnati, refer correspondent's inquiry to'(J;he:·AJ,_r=Force.1 1
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T,acv- to attend the Mi chi gan Hotel Convent ion, and =t>o t _'}i in~i tati onsGeany- ,. Mf
11?h•-- were declined. An informant reported that iRJ"ll~ ~
~~~~~":;:-: gambling on Mackinac ..I.3J.ap'1 ~ ••reserued Jor "1h e Grand
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