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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 06

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 129 pages · text by OCR

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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“Los Angeles Times”7 pages

  • p. 28 …SAC, Los Angeles SUBJECT: "REYING DISK" REPORT INFORMATION CONCERNING On May 5, 1949 a reporter for…
  • p. 56 …Manufacturing Company, Los Angeles. The parts made available by Mr. were exhibited to Mr. and he…
  • p. 61 …near Los Angeles, attempting to learn characteristics of the unexplained phenomenon. Up to this time little…
  • p. 62 …Los Angeles, but only at the end of the flight toward the apparent "target", namely, Los…
  • p. 75 …electrical manufacturing company which he owns and operates in Los Angeles, California. Mr. told us about…
  • p. 78 …As I recall, this Eastman shop was on Los Palmas Street in Los Angeles, California. They…
  • p. 84 …At 3:30 p.m., I called SAC Hood of the Los Angeles Office and instructed…
Colo. or a little to the south.

I live almost due east about 180 mi. by air and I looked to the south a little to be able to get sight of object.

This object was also witnessed by my son who was with me at the time.

I saw the smoke cloud left by so called meteor which exploded over at Norton Kans. This object was not a bright ball of fire like it was.

The silver streak in the sky traveled as if it were a long connected streak. This did not resemble a line of smoke left by a train traveling along it moved altogether as a unit. If it is not against any regulation and if possible would like to have answer to this object.

Cases discussed

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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.