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This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section collects 1947 to 1949 correspondence, memoranda and newspaper clippings about flying disc reports. It includes Hoover's replies to citizens, a Maine woman's account of a drifting object judged probably a weather balloon, a Richmond memo on a cigar-shaped object seen over Radford, Virginia on May 12, 1949, clippings on the Chiles and Whitted sighting near Montgomery, a Flyin' Saucer toy promotion, and agent interviews with witnesses in Vermont and a pilot near Bethel, Alaska.
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# MCIAXD-3/FWA/ew Wright-Patterson AF Base 9 September 1948 Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Department of Justice Washington. D. C. ATTN: FBI Laboratory 3F-CO L-32 SUBJECT: Project "SIGN" ## Gentlemen: Accompanying this letter is a small sample of soil. This soil was taken from a depression reputed to have been caused by a flying saucer described as being approximately two feet in diameter and one foot thick which supposedly settled gently to the ground, rebounded to a height of about twenty feet and then continued on its journey. Although the declivity was immediately covered by a large waahtub a heavy rain subsequently filled the depression about one/third full of water before any sample of dirt could be taken. In an effort to approach this incident objectively to determine every possible clue, it has been deemed advisable to have this soil sample analyzed and tested. Upon inquiry, your Dayton representative stated that the FBI Laboratory would accomplish the required tests. It is the desire of this Headquarters to assemble, in particular, if there are traces of unusual elements or alloys adhering to the surface of the particles, or if gravity in structure exists showing that the soil was subjected to intense heat, gases or radio-active substances, etc. Unfortunately, in this regard, no one thought to forward a sample of the soil surrounding the depression so no comparison of soils can be made at this time. Should the subsequent test show anything unusual some arrangement could be made to procure some of the surrounding soil so that a comparative analysis could be made. The accompanying sample has not been tested by any other agency, nor will it be. C. for Δ=3 21 9 / 17
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. 129 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.