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.
“FBI file”7 pages
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CHAN SURNEY, S. DAK. C. WAYLAND BROOKS, LL. CLYDY M. REED, KANE. JOSPHIN M. BELL, MOEI. HOMER FLEUCSON, MICH. KENNETH B. WHERRY, NEBR. GUY CORDON, OREC. LEVERETT SALTONSTALL, MASS. MILTON R. YOUNG, M. DAK. WILLIAM P. KNOWLAND, CALF. HENRY C. DWORDSLAR, IDAHO RONNETH M. CARL HAYDEN. ELMER THOMAS. MILLARD E. TYSON. RICHARD B. MUSSELL. PAT McCARRAN, MEY. JOHN M. OVERTON, LA. JOSPH C. O'MANHET, WYB. THEODORE FRANCIS GREEN, B. L. United States Senate COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS EVERARD H. SMITH, CLICK CECIL H. TOLLENT, ABBET, CLICK March 22, 1948 1 Honorable J. Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Department of Justice Washington 25, D. C. Dear Mr. Hoover: Attached you will find letter which may or may not be of interest to your office. However, I felt it should be passed on to you for whatever the information is worth. K111 LEVEL Kindly return my constituent's letter although if you wish you make a copy of it. Cordially yours, KSW:emn-3 Kenneth S. Wherry KENNETH S. WHERRY Enc. RECORDED & INDEXED 31 MAR 27 1940 ---
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.