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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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---tronomers, whom J ' r"1 lled "our best advisers ... in ••~ss of visitors from elsewhere, ~ ;aph the sky continuously, but they had reported no saucers. The G eneral was reminded that many of the people who had told of seeing the most spectacular things were considered the most reliable. He replied that he had no intention of discrediting them, but the fact remained that none of them had offered data of the kind a scientist would find useful. An Air Force officer whom General Sam ford personally knew to be a com petent witness had told him of seeing a saucer in the Middle East. This man, too, had been unable to obtain ac curate measurements. "We have many reports from credible observers of in credible things," the General remarked. Like General Moore, his predecessor in Project Saucer days, General Sam ford denied that the Air Force was at tempting to cover up secret experiments. When he was asked if tl1e saucers might be the guided missiles of a foreign coun try, he replied that he didn't see how, on the basis of their weird performances, they could be unless "someone" had achieved a means of developing unlim ited power-"power of such fantastic higher limits that it is a theoretical un limited; it's not anytl1ing that we can understand"-and utilizing it under conditions in which no mass is involved. As for the latter, the G eneral told the press, drawing a laugh, " You know, what 'no mass' means is that there's nothing tl1ere." W HILE General Samford's inter view probably reassured the pub- lic as evidence that the Air Force was still on me job, it did nothing to lessen the nation's saucer-consciousness. The reporters had hardly rnanked the Gen eral for his comments when, on Au gust Ist, a Coast Guard photographer produced a picrnre showing four bizarre lights burning brilliantly in a daylight sky. He said he had taken it over Salem, Massachusetts. The next day, a H ar vard astrophysicist called the photograph worthless because it was accompanied by no scientific data, such as temperature distribution and altitude. On August 6th, an Army physicist at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, creato6 the equivalent of flying saucers in his laborat0ry by introducing molecules of ionized air into a partial vacuum in a bell jar, and three days later an internationally known authori- ty on atmospheric conditions said of the physicist's experiment, "I know of no conditions of the earth's atmosphere, high or low, whi~h would duplicate, . . , page 81, 82
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