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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4. 13. 5 . Washington D.C. thinking about those flying places ever since your operators called all our home . I have fig- and out a possible solution that I am passing on to you . If you can see the picture we see it . If self propelled torches were made to that fortified gullet a few years ago, there is not a reason to believe they could not be made to go 300 miles to day. If a foreign country ever planning to drop a lot of such bombs on our cities, they would want the exact range, and the only way they could get it would be to make some tests. I
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.