Documents / FOIA release
This FBI file section, from 1947, gathers Army Air Forces counterintelligence reports and FBI memoranda about the summer's flying disc reports. It includes a Boise newspaper pilot's sworn statement describing a black object he filmed on 9 July 1947, interviews with a United Air Lines captain and a Hamilton Field soldier, and a Pan American crew's orange object near Boston. Other items cover the Tacoma disk fragment story, which was admitted to be false, the fatal B-25 crash at Kelso, a coded "Radio Ham" message dismissed as a hoax, and an Air Defense Command assessment that "something is really flying around."
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I wish to acknowledge receipt of your letter and enclosure dated July 10, 1947. I have instructed the Special Agent in Charge of our New York Office to have a Special Agent call upon you for the purpose of obtaining further information in connection with this matter. Your interest in calling this information to my attention is indeed appreciated. Sincerely yours, John Edgar Noover Director cc = New York (With incipiting. There is no identifiable information in the files of the Bureau concerning the writer of this letter. The decoding of the message on the newspaper clipping was referred to the Laboratory, who subsequently advised that the writer's decoding was substantially correct. There is being set forth below the results of the Laboratory's decoding: "Tired of human nonsense won't await atomic war disrupting order solar system so sent flying disks and will set up world order under Martians late this year". The New York Office should interview the writer of this lotter to ascertain from what newspaper the clipping in question was obtained. Thereafter, contact should be made with this newspaper to ascertain the identity of the person who sent in the codod message. This individual must be thoroughly interrogated to obtain FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE I will do it 2 AUG 2014 25
FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 111 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.