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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.
•TRUE COPY Jackson Minn Aug 2, 1952 J . Edgar Hoover Fede r al bureau of Investigation . Washington, IJ. c. IJear Mr Hoover: I don ' t know if you analy2e arti cles so will send you a sample of (something that looks like tinsel) because my uncle found it in a pasture in a r ound pile , underneath of it, it looks as tho the clover was burned . & there are 3 similar patches which are burned in a triangle form . Last Sunday Morning the Neighbors Wife got up to get a drink of water & happned to see a steady white Light circling thei r farm, but didn ' t pay any attention to it. Than Sunday morn . when my uncle went to get the cows, he saw this stuff shining in the Sun light. It couldn't of been dropped out of a plane as it was loose & not in a container & the nearest road is about a j mile from the pasture & now we are wondering what it is . So would l ike to have you analyze it & let me know. Sincerely yours, /s/ Wm Hoffmeye r
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