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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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• • FB) FLYING \ OF I STORY . 1 fEt l',l Ou, AU c; I ... IJ. S DEPAl!T1o!EtH OF JUS COMMUHfCATIONS SECTIOM JUL ~ 1953 ~E ATLANTA 7-8-53 11-0-2 AM "1- I rJ_~A DIRECTOR, FBI U R G E N T ~~ \Q\J~... 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. r.,, JUL ¼;:t.- 1 1Jt .. J03 IS /..5
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