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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.
“The Pentagon”14 pages
t.t,. August 5, 1952 SAO, San Diego BORDERL AND SCIENCES, RESEARCH ASSOCIATES San Diego, Cal1forni a; MEAD LAYNE, Director; MAX FREEDOM LONG, Director I zt?l-view of the current hysteria concerning the so-called 1'-fl_y1ng saucers", I thought that the Bureau might be interested 1n the .following in.formation concern ing the captioned organization . I am transmitting herew1th certain 11terature con cerning the captioned organization which was furnished to me by FRANCIS OHM, who operates the Businessmens Assurance Company in San Diego and who has his office in the same building housing the FBI office. It is of interest to note that on Friday, August , 1952, at approximately 12:00' noon, FRANCIS OHM as ked to set me urgently, which I did. As a member of the captioned organization, he advised me that they were having a meeting at 1 :00 PM the same day, inasmuch as they had been advise that they had some v~ry important information to discuss . He went on to relate that thro ugh t he means utilized by hta organi zation (which the enclo sed literature will reflect border s on the ocoult) , they were able to prognosticate well in advance the rece~t earthquake which occurred in Tehachapi, California. He advised that they have also been able to obtain the fol lowing information: 1. That a very severe tidal wave will hit the Pacific Ocean sometime in the not too remote future and that moat of the Japanese Islands will be washed away and disappear. 2 . That all .fishes with scales in Japanese waters will soon leave these waters for other destina tions, in view of the oncoming tidal wave . 3. That this tidal wave will wash away the Hawaiian Islands . 4. That the West Coast of the United States will likewise be affected by this tidal wave. 5 . That they prognosticated the appearance of a new island in the Pacific which was publ ished in the newspapers within the past week. r-~_f _ rv-c JFS:ha NOT RECOR D ED }4,J .;t1J 3 1952 • INITIALS ON OR!G!NAL 7 _ • -r----l7 9 \71 SE
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