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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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  • p. 69 …Furthermore, Captain Ruppelt stated that the FBI to his knowledge has never been called upon to…
  • p. 82 …SU P ERFLEX co tion, you'll never go back to over-stuffed styled clothes. Suits…
  • p. 90 …Captain -/r Ruppelt advised Colonel Young that they have never indicated in any way to Mr…
  • p. 122 …ible that mewhe r n wa~ reached, never ag tn, O n th" sm.dl planet…
  • p. 156 ,.. , .. ...o-&3 2 •MCRAE STATES VETERINARIAN WOULD NOT COMMIT HIMSELF BUT VET POINTED OUT HAD NEVER…
  • p. 158 • •MCRI\E STATES VETERINARIAN UOULO NOT COMMIT HIMSELF BUT VET POINTED OUT HAD NEVER SEEN ANI…
  • p. 163 …the .veter£narian potnted out he had never seen an animal in the, monkey familv ~ tthout…
  • p. 177 …such a noise about it1 They will never perfect the machine without my data.. Well, I…
  • p. 178 …From Salzburg I have never received a reply. Seemingly., the English have lost my address and…
  • p. 179 …PIVW st~ed that he has never met DORNIG but that DORNIG was given his name…
  • p. 200 …credence whatsoever to it because they have never had any previous experience of any kind as…
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ATLANTA 7-8-53 11-0-2 AM "1- I rJ_~A
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SAUCERS , MR . TOM MCRAE, - ATLANTA CONSTITUTION- REPO,TER,
COMPLAINANT . THREE FORTYFIVE AM THIS DATE MCRAE TELEPHONICALLY FURNISH
FOLLOWING -FANTASTIC TALE - ASSURING THAT NEITHER HE NOR ANY MEMBER
-icoNSTITUTION- STAFF HAD BEEN DRINKING BUT HAD WITNESSED THIS
MCRAE STATED EDWARD E. WATERS, ONE EIGHT FIVE FIVE PEACHTREE
R~, NE, TELE ELGIN NINE FIVE SIX TWO, CALLED ON HIM AT NEWSPAPER OFFICE
STATING HE ANDTWO OTHER COMPANIONS WHILE TRAVELING IN CAR ON BANK-
HEAD HIGHWAY ABOUT MABLETON, GA. ENCOUNTERED THREE SMALL ANIMALS WHICH
THEY BELIEVED HAD LANDED FROM SOME PLACE IN FLYING SAUCER. WATERS
INFORMED MCRAE THAT AS THEY APPROACHED THE THREE OBJECTS SSTARTING
• MAKING THEIR WAY BACK TO WHAT HE BELIEVED A FLYING SAUCER, THAT TWO
OF THE ANIMALS ESCAPED I N SAUCER BUT THIRD WAS KILLED WHEN HIT BY THEIR
AUTOMOBILE. WATERS DISPLAYED OBJECT OR ANIMAL TO MCRAE AT NEWSPAPER
OFFICE . MCRAE STATED ANIMAL DID NOT RESEMBLE ANYTHING HE HAD EVER
SEEN BEFORE BUT LOOKED AS I F IT BELONGED TO MONKEY FAMILY. ANIMAL
MEASURED AND FOUND TO BE APPROXIMATELY TWENTYONE INCHES LONG, HAD
RATHER POINTED HEAD, LARGE EARS AND SKIN WAS PINKISH. DUE TO
EARLY MORNING HOUR rfr&iko~~~~LE TO LOCATE SCJENTJ SI TO EXAMINE
ANIMAL BUT DID HAVE ONE OF LEf]lUG VE-rERINARIAN$ THIS CITY EXAMINE IT.
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