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This FBI Freedom of Information release contains a memorandum dated March 31, 1950, sent from the New Orleans office to the FBI Director under the subject "Flying Discs." It reports a claim that Denver oilman Silas Newton said he leased land in the Mojave Desert, where an intact flying disc had been found with eighteen dead three-foot human-like occupants. The memo notes related articles by Frank Scully in Variety and in True Magazine. It was furnished for informational purposes only, with copies to Denver and Los Angeles.
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# Office Mem. lum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : DIRECTOR, FBI FROM BAC, NEW ORLEANS SUBJECT: FLYING DISCS DATE: March 31, 1950 Special Agent of the New Orleans Division, has a brother. of the advertising agency has advised Special Agent that an employee of the has been contacted by one telephone Colorado, regarding Flying Discs. is alleged to have told in January, 1950, that he knows a prominent Denver oilman named SILAS NEWTON, also known as a mysterious Mr. I", and an official of the Newton Oil Co., Equitable Building, Denver, Colorado. NEWTON is claiming that he leased land in the Mojave Desert in California and that on this land a flying disc had been found intact, with eighteen three-foot tall human-like occupants, all dead on it but not burned. Further, that the disc was alleged to be of very hard metal and near indestructible. is said to have exhibited a radio set to purported to be a souvenir of the space disc. According to has been telling of this story off and on for the three month period prior to January, 1950, and is said to have notified of it weeks prior to the publication of a flying disc article published in the True Magazine, and one by FRANK SCULLY published in the Variety Magazine in January, 1950. claimed to have been visited by DONALD HEHOE, author of the article in the True Magazine. Further data was furnished that had been telling the tale so prolifically in Denver that he claimed to have had telephone calls from Washington, D. C. and from the Federal Bureau of Investigation in which he was requested to keep the information to himself and that, thereafter, he became mysterious about the entire matter. It is noted that considerable publicity regarding these discs has been found in Denver and other papers. This information is being furnished the Bureau and the designated offices for informational purposes. HWT:mrg 66-1199 oc: Denver Los Angeles COPIES DESTROYED 270 NOV 18 1904
FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.