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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 06

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 129 pages · text by GLM-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.

  • p. 37 …DAVIS attempted to advise his headquarters by telephone immediately after the sighting, he heard static or…
  • p. 47 # DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE DIRECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE WASHINGTON 25, D…
  • p. 48 …be forwarded to the Director of Intelligence, Headquarters United States Air Force. (3) Commanding General, Air…
  • p. 73 …course, with O.S.I. representatives. Mr. headquarters are the District Commander, 5th O.S.I…
  • p. 101 …It is the desire of this Headquarters to assemble, in particular, if there are traces of…
  • p. 114 …The memorandum indicated that the San Francisco Field Division had received a letter from the headquarters…
  • p. 115 …The Headquarters of the Air Forces in Washington are being contacted by the Bureau in order…
  • p. 116 …Inasmuch as these recent instructions of the Headquarters, Air Defense Command, Mitchell Air Force Base, New…
  • p. 117 Headquarters Air Defense Command Mitchel Air Force Base, New York 4 February 1948 SUBJECT: Investigation and…
  • p. 118 …Reports will be submitted directly to Headquarters, USAF, ATTN: Directorate of Intelligence, Air Intelligence Requirements Branch…

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upward off a ye , its course looked like in C ellipse to me : 0

the disc were seen in Tifas probably dropped into the gulf. So then sight improved they so doubt dropped some in various places. The one that was seen lower June, way, was so doubt aimed at some lake close to Fowl 11 nox. Maybe something evil wrong with that one, in the reason it was so plainly visible. Living to the fact that your operators called at our remote home at 8:00 P.M on a Sunday evening and also cautioned no to keep down. I know that the 7.13.9 is doing what they would get a live on these discs. This may help a little. In five nights ago there was a very bright sight around the moon, when I tracked it this the same day. I could easily see the ring, so this proves that what

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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.