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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.
,. S'r,AN.OAR•() FORM NO. 64 •Office Memoranduni • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT DATE: August 8, 1952TO : MR. R. T.:., HARED Irg-- Tolson_ _ La.Od.__ cleu__FROM : _7F. DOWNI G~ Olavln__ :.lchola__ SUBJ~Cef ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION WRITTEN kosen__ ERMAN LANGTTAGE RECEIVED BY NCINNATI ENQUIRER" PERTAINING FLYING SAUCERS 11 SECURITY MATT"R - X Reference is made to a letter from the Cincinnati Office date~ August 6~ 195'2 , submitting an anonymous letter in German concerning I so- called "Flying Saucers . 11 Attached are 7 copies of a translation of this German material ~AA~t~ prepared in the Cryptanalysis- Translation Section. ,, y--. ~ • . a No r eply has been made by us to the August 6, 1952, ·letter .frqm Cincinnati. RECOMMENDATION: That the Domestic Intelligence Division review the Cincinnati submission and accompanying Bureau translation, for appropriate handling, noting particularly a suggestion in the last I,,aragraph of the Cincinnati letter to consider makif!g this informati~ available to other Governmental Agencies . I J X)t.~ • Q 62-83894 . "'K~ ~ " .'i,1 (,, ;,_ J'Jti"?j- ~ -..:..t.-l;b- [wr- rm:jen \ r,- &~~... \~ Attachm~ 7~ NC\, /}( \ L; ( G 2v • ~a 58 SEP 2 1952 '(J f.}(•• 73 J
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