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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RECORD.D 9/22/48 kag File / 62-33874-146 Lab. / PC-23142 CO Re: Project "SIGE" Examination of Soil. Examination requested by: Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson EIP AF Base, Dayton, Ohio Attention: SCIAXL-3 Date of reference communication: letter 9/9 Examination requested: Micro (Petrographic-Geologic) Result of Examination: Examination by: 67c returned 10/18/148 Reg. Mail . Specimens submitted for examination Q1, Sample of soil. 52NOV2 1948
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.