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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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I ir S .. rout ne patrol for ti• ~ or:l;) ,1_ kned that the onh othu ,·rcraft o,·er the fidd \I.«::, a Pipe/Cuh. G ,rman could :-.ee the Cui, plainh utlined below him. Curi ou,, he flew toward the light. " It wa::, ah. ur ,ix to ci:!ht inche, in diameter, dear,, hire, and complerelr r ,ond, with a ~rt of fu77 at the edge-.,'' G11rman later told ill\·e,tigaror,, adding that he '1W ''no outl:ne ,,f :in} thin~" around the t.:dge,. " It wa, blinking on and off. •h I approached, ho\\ e,·er, the light ,ud denlJ became ,re:idr and pulled into a ,harp left hank.... I dh·ed after it and hrou;!ht my m.1nifold pre ure up HIGHBOY DESI( in genuine to ,iMr inche,, bur I couldn't catch up SOLID mahogany from 1he Sru with the thing. It ~tarted ~inin~ alti Arli•8fo 11 Group b>· Kling. A tude and a.?ain made a left bank. I putdistincti,e addirio n ro an,• roorn. At leading srore~. • mJ F-5 I into a ~harp rurn and tried to cut the li!!ht off in it, turn. Br then, f°ull ccofor hooU.-t, , ·our Brei. ,,e were at about ~\·en thou-and feet. rooe aoJ You·· conuiins h.-lp(ul 1u,tacs,ioo1 on cbc c-are of fur-.. Suddenly it made :i ,harp right turn a.,.~ anJ brtlroom dttor:atioo .1nd \\·t· headed '-trai~ht at each other. coio to Khng fanories, O.Cpc. ) '9, and •rrancrm.-n, . Sc-nd 2,, ,n i\lay"lJ.lC', N. Y. JU::>t when we were~ about to collide, I ~Ul"::, I Jot scared. I went into a drve"lJNG ML\.~s ~\~ and the li~ht pa~scd on•r mr canopy at about fi\"e hundred feet. T hen it made .; left cirde about a thou'1nd feet abo\"e, ..nd I :!a ,·e cha:,e again." Gorman fol lowed the li;!ht up to fourteen thou::,..1nd ftet, where, after another near colli,ion, hi:, :.hip went into a power ,talJ and the li;;ht di-..1ppeared to the nonhwe:.t. Gorman noticed no "Jund, or exhau t trail odor:,. He had gunned his plane up to four hundred mile, an hour with- 11ut gaining on tht· liiht. I t ,,·:h able to maint.1in an l'Xtrcmdy ,teep an,;le of a~:em, far :?rearer than that of hi, A.ir F ,rce fi.;hr~r. " \\'hen 1 ~ttempted to turn \\ ith [the li~htJ, I blacked our temporarily, due to exce...,.fre ,peed," he :.aid. " I am in fairly good phJ-ical condi tion and I do not bclie,·e there are many, jf an}, pilot., who could with,tand the turn and ,peed effected hr th:ir li;ht and retn.J.in conxiou . " Projen Saucer ~u,pcctcd th.u G ,r m..n wa::, nlting witl1 a Wt:ith.-r h.;Jlvvn. For one thing, it learned tliat the f'ar o 6Weatht.:r !L1tion had relea,-ed a lighted balloon onlr ten minute,, before Gor man':, patrol ,topped being routine. The ohjeer'!> steadr, practit"allJ , c rtical climb sugge~tcd the beha\ ior of a bal par,t, 71, 72 loon. A techn rc1an ,, h1, once ,~orkecl on Project Saucer t,,!c.f me recently that chasing a weather balloon with an arr plane 1s comparable to dr\ rng to the bottom of a pool after a hollow rubber
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