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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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Grand Hotel
July 24, 1953
J/ackinac Island , Jlichigan
l.oJ-'t~gq /.-];$Dear Jlr. "ood/ill:
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\\t.COR Tour 1 et-te r of June 30,
to "'Y attention upon ny return to
~ant to thank you Jo r making this
to me .
1953, was brought
the ci"ty, und I
in/ornati.on available
I ~ish to advise that the situation which
you discuss in you r letter does not pertcin to any
matter within the inuesttgatiue jurisdiction of the
FBI . Obviously, there/ore, no representative of this
Bureau conducted the interview with Jlr • .SteuenB0Tl wht.ch
you descr i.be relat ~ue to 1 ·,t1 ying saucers . "
Sincerel11 yours,
J . Edcar Hoover
John Edgar Hoouer
Di rector
Cincinnati
Reurlet July 15, 1953.
JJr. Woodfill 's letter of June 30,__ 1953J, stated that
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NOTF:
a farmer named Stevenson of Circleville, Ohi~, ih,ad reportedly
seen a flying saucer c,, nd had been subsequent'Jy ~ teru iewed
on the mat+er by representative of the FBI. ~ y r;- Woodfill
desired to h;no1.p if this were true. , _ ~ en
Bulet of ,Tuly 9, 1953, to him wc..s an "in-,(J/)sence" reply,Tolson
Ladd __ containing,. a note for 6;..C, Cincinnati to d.eter'Rine the basis
Nichols of the rumor. Cfncinnati letter of July 15, ~3, indicatesBehoonr
Cle~- that Stevenso11 w,as 'linte.ruiewed on July 14, ~9~; at t hat timeGlavin
Hul,o __ ~tevenson indicated that he hud been inter"iriewed on the
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Tracy __ subject by one Jack W, Grant of ColUJJlhJs, Ohio, who made the
Gearty statement that he (Grant) hc,,d once been "checked" by the FBl.Mohr-
Wi_nrerrowd _ Cincinnati ~!!/eeflect no prior interview with the farmer,Tele. Room
Hollom11n who is Brucw enson , ,lural lloute 2, Circlevil.le, Ohio.
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