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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Walter Winchell New York, New York Dear Sir: Under attached cover you will find a sample of our item. Should you do no more than take our FLYIN' SAUCER out, carefully read the instructions, and fly it; I will have accomplished a portion of my expectations. For the past few weeks I have listened with more than an indifferent attitude, to your various Sunday evening broadcasts and corrents concerning Flying Saucers. From the start, much as many another individual who has tried to get ahead by his own initiative, I have visiized what the right type of publicity would do for my interests. To state my actions in any other manner, would belittle your intelligence, and the weeks of forethought and sincerity in which this is submitted. Your corrent this evening, concerning the Gyroscopic Theories, sparklinged my actions. Along with the phases of merchandising mentioned in the attached articles, I should like to mention that one troop of Boy Scouts in Los Angeles are purchasing and enthusiastically include them as a major portion of their recreation program. By these facts, it is apparent that our LYIN' SAUCER is worthy of every effort we are able to surmons in making it another American pastime of Yo-Yo proportions. Trusting that we are justified of your consideration from a nensworthy standpoint, I, remain Very Sincerely Yours, 67c San Luis Obispo, California RECORDED - 58 62- INEDXED·5817 JUN151949
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.