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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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] that-th .t \d le th info~m:uion t!lc1 give 1,1e may be mad1•:1t their amcs nc\"er will be." ~ n . case,, Captain Ruppelt said, in\"estigation 'las ~hown that the people he has inter viewed had been deceived by thing, that have been decei\"lng others all ;dong-balloons, planes, meteor:;, and ,o on-but a nettling residue of around twenty per cent of the ca-.e, ha\'e wound up in that exasperating old pigeonhole labelled "Unidcntific.:d." X othing, for l'\ample, could be fou nd to account tor the ''...omuhing sih-er} directl} overhead" reported by a mystified Civil •\ eronautics Administra tion inspector at T erre H aute. A commercial pilot who, tlring near Ba ttle C reek, l\,Jich1gan, •potted "an O\"al-shaped ,il\'er object" ,thead of his ship, po~ed a simila rly un lved problem, as did a highly respected naval officer, stationed a t the dirigible ba,;e a t L akehurst, New J ersey, who re ported that he had stared through his binoculars a t a brilliant image making turns tha t were far too tight for an} known aircraft. Twenty-five per cent of the observ cn, interrogated by the Aerial P henom ena Officer in the last two and a half } ears have been milita ry pilots. E ight per cent have been commercial pilots, ,om e with as much as twenty yea rs' ex perience in the air, and at one stage in the current phase o f the investigation, nen a few physicists at L os Alamos, '\Tew M exico, men who make a feti~h of objecti\·ity, were interviewed after they reported ha\ ing seen puzzling li~hts hovering above their ato mic energy laboratorie:-. " If you took any one of these inciden ts by itself, it might not mean much," Captain Ruppclt said. " But in view of the number and calibre of the informants, rou couldn't help ta king their cla11n s '"nou~Ir." In February, 195 1, D r. L1ddel, a nuclear physicist attached to the Office of l\'a\"al Research, at '\Va,h ington, D.C ., declared that at last, "thank~ to the lifting of certain --ecurity rc~trict1011s, he could provide the solution to che mptcr} of the lh 1nJ ,·mcc.:rs: T hey were ''sk} hooks," he said-hal ins a hundred feet ·11 diameter, wluch the Navy had secretly been sendin~ up for the pa,t four years in order to study cosmic rap. D r. L iddel's ru-,cr rion w:i~ immediately disputed hr D r . .-\nthon} 0 . \ Iirarchi, who, a:; f. rmcr head of the Air F orce's A tmospheric Compo<t1on Bure.tu, h td a~,1sted m the diagnosis of Project Saucer reports. D r. ,\Iir re-hi sa'd he the ught the ~:rnccn, mig ht he m is,iles from some foreign _ ... _____ . HAVE YOU GRASPED ◄ THE ~outbtuick IDEA? H erc is tailoring so completely flexil 11a/11ral that the comfort contrast is r ei markable. Once you experience the blissf and casual distinction of SU P ERFLEX co tion, you'll never go back to over-stuffed styled clothes. Suits from S70. Sports from S55. PAUL STUART, INC. ARTH UR L.No, Yo,. C111 Boston WARNBR & COMPANY JOH N WANAMA" 8•/trmort, M d. p1,,1.,,, S ILVERSTO NE'S ROBERT 11 ""·••ic- ,v,,, s.,. F,11nc FtJr 110,n in orb, G RI ECO IROS . , Inc . , 200 f if t l
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