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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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... . .,...., DEPARTMENT ~ F T HE AIR FORCE '
H E AOQUARTERS UN ITEO STATES A I R FORCE
WAS HINGTON 25, 0. C.
30 September 1952
MEMORANDUM FOR: MR. ~ OX
SUBJECT: Connnents on Article in The NEW YORKER
1. A call was made to the Air Technical Intelligence Center,
1330 this date, (Captain Ruppelt) regarding the attached article.
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2 . ATIC did not in any way indicate 1.o Mr. Lang_ that the
FBI has an interest in flying saucers. Furthermore, Captain
Ruppelt stated that the FBI to his knowledge has never been called
upon to furnish reports on<l'lying saucers. ATIC is under the
impression that Mr. Lang made the atofyup or picked it up from
a magazine or newspaper article sometime back that definitely
was not associated with their organization.
3. AfIC suggests that you check further with Mr. Al Chop,
Office of Public Information, and perhaps he can supply you with
the information you have requested.
1 Incl:
Article fr NEW YORKER, C
dtd Sept 6, 1952 Ch' gement Group
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