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.
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Re: Project "SIGN" Examination of Soil. File 62-83894-146 Lab. PC-23142 CO Examination requested by: Commanding General, Air Lateriel Command, Wright-Patterson XXX AF Base, Dayton, Ohio Attention: MCIAX0-3 Date of reference communication: letter 9/9 Date received: 9/17 Examination requested: Micro (Petrographic-Geologic) Result of Examination: 1/6 Examination by: 9/30/48 Examination by: Specimens submitted for examination Q1, Sample of soil. consisted of various sized pebbles, sand and dirt. Most of the larger pieces were examined individually for presence of metal adhering to them. Nothing unusual noted on the pebbles or in the sand & dirt structure, normal. No indication of extreme heat. The not activate Geiger counter on X-ray spectrometer.
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. 129 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.