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FBI file 62-HQ-83894, section 7

Department of War · 205 pages · text from the file's own layer

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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TRANSLATION FROM GERMAN
Item #l
12-21-53
Mr. ALOIS PIWETZ
164 Halsted Str.
New Jersey, U. s. A.
Dear Mr. PIWETZ,
Your brother will probably have communicated with you about
me as we became acquainted with/ each other at a construction job. I
told him a few things about inventions or utilization. Dear Mr. PIWETZ,
be not angry with me because I am now turning to you. I hesitated such
a long time as my wife does not wish to go abroad. Enclosed I am
sending you 2 inventions, that is, ideas and I leave it to your own
( power of judgment whether one or both, or none of these inventions
is suitable. If one seems to be profitable to you, you should apply
for a patent in your own name as the best possible way and enter 'for me
and for yourself 45%each of the ·net profit and 10% for your brother.
I am giving you entirely a free hand, as you will undoubtedly try to
attain the greatest possible profit.
And now, dear Mr. PIWETZ, I am talcing the liberty of telling
you something about 8ll invention which the entire world wants to have.
(I am only writing the most important f acts.) Before the war I intended
to make a toy, something which f lies, and purely accidentally I di scovered
a hitherto unknown aerodynamic law. I experimented further. I improved
and informed several comrades. They were enthused and emigrated to
South America . There they tried it on their own responsibility. People
were killed and they f ailed t o perfect the incomplete invention. They
approached me again. As they were only artisans, 'these flying machines
were, of course, built primitively. The first experiments to fly with
a motorcycle motor attained the result of 250-300 km. Not bad for the
years 1938-391 With a powerful motor they then flew 2600-2800 km.
(hour kilometers).
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