Documents / FOIA release
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.
“Cooper”6 pages
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Project "SIGN" Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation In the event the tests snow nothing warranting further investigation you may dispose of the sample. The report should be addressed to this Command marked for the attention of MCIAXD-3. This Division will appreciate your cooperation in this matter. Very truly yours. Incl James J. Hauser W. R. CLINGERMAN Colonel, USAF Chief, Technical Intelligence Division Intelligence Department
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.