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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.
“Office of Special Investigations”11 pages
if they were to stop on tomb here and lit it explode, it would cause a lot of excitement, and if they dropped one that didn't explode and someone found it there there would be excitement. So to avoid this, they perch some point in lake Erie, lit their pyre over here, known what place and time to look for it. If the projectile plunged in the lake, the range finder would it have any way to tell where it dropped, so the projectile must have some soil of tracer. So it a certain distance from the cauldron some soil of tracer is released, probably something like a pin when fire cracker. It must remain in the story while, to give the range finder a fix or what ever you call it. But in order to remain in the story it must be in motion so this tracer is made to fly in a circle. Because it was
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.