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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. 197 …the Bureau's information and for the information of the Los Angeles and Indianapolis Offices. -5-
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ADOLPH DORNIG
On January 12, 19.54, ALOIS PIVEC, 164 Hallstead Street, East Orange,
NJ, appeared at th_;..Newark Office and advised that he had received a letter
from one ADOLP~RNIG, Waidmannsdorferstr 80, Klagenfurt, West Austria,
on about December 20, 1953.
PIVEC stated that the letter requested him to attempt to sell
a number of inventions, which he, DORNIG, had developed. PIVEC stated that
the request was to contact Aircraft companies and Sewing Machine Companies
in the United states an:l attempt to interest them in these devices.
Accor~ingIVEC, DORNIG requested that no governmental ag~nciesto
be contacted. p ated that the inventions, 1'hich DORNIG had developed
were new type o ewing machine and a flying saucer. PIVEC statedJthat he
came to this office because he felt that the flying saucer was of some
importance in the national defense of this country. PIVW st~ed that he
has never met DORNIG but that DORNIG was given his name ~'S brother,
[!lITZ, who resides in oraz, Austria, and who is employed at Siemens-Hal~ke
Belggier oasse 11, oraz, Austria. PIVEC stated that his brother workodwith
DORNIG, at one time, and he believes that DORNIG is a chemist or some type
of engineer. PIVEC stated that the contents of the letter seemed fantastic
to him and that if the letter were not written in such an intelligent manner,
he would have doubted DORNIG1S sanity. He stated that DORNIG claims to
have sold a new principle of aero-dynamics, which made it possible to
construct a practical flying saucer and, that DORNIG had developed a model
that flies w.i.thout the usual hazards. According to PIVEC, the letter
continues by stating that DORNIG has been in contact with other men through
out the world, who have been attempting to develop the .saucer and that he
has been the first to win real success.
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BY way of background~~ stated that he was born in the
vicinity of ..I,eoben, Austria in 1925 and aITived in New York City on March
29, 1952 from Bremerhaven, German:y-. He is employed at the Public Service
LaboratoTY in Maplewood, NJ. \
On January 30, 19.54., OLGA PIVEC, lq4 Hallstead Street, F,ast Orange,
NJ, appeared at the Newark Office and advised that she was the wife of
ALOIS PIVEC• She stated that another letter had been received .from ADOLPH
DORNIG, by her husband, ALOIS p!V]X!. She stated that her 1:msband did not
want to furnish the information in this letter to the FBI• She stated that
he was not aware that she was furnishing this information and wished to keep
the interview confidential. •
COPIES DESTROYED
2 7 v ~.ov 10 1964

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