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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.
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# 'Flying Floor Lamp Again Sighted Here By CHARLES POU That "flying floor lamp" is at it again? An illuminated cantaloupe rolled over the city! And a newspaperman saw "great balls of fire! What's more, two Richmond Va. schoolteachers say they saw the same "flame-spurting" sky monster which was spotted by Eastern Air Lines pilots near Montgomery. Like Red Floor Lamp "I saw Halley's, comet—and it was nothing like what I saw last night." declared Mrs. W. R. Delk, of 914 Hemphill ave., N. W. Breathlessly, Mrs. Delk continued: "The front end of it looked like a flying floor lamp-a fiery-red floor lamp. Then it trailed off in little square sections. "Oh, Halley's comet was nothing like that." And Mrs. Delk was joined by at least 15 other Atlantians who saw a Thing which banked and rolled and breathed fire over the city Monday night between $ p. m. and 9:45 p. m. In the downlown section Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Sellers were minding their own business when a "reddish-white ball of fire about the size of a cantaloupe with a tail on it" darted over buildings. Mrs. A. C. Kirby of Carey Park has never seen a purple cow but she did see "a great ball of fire with a great long purple tail on it." That was about 9:40 p.m. "Blinish Streak of Light" An attendant at the naval air station thought he was watching a falling star, until it started climbing and banked away from Atlanta. To him, it looked like a "bluish streak of light." And now about the newspaperman. John Battle, city editor of the Augusta Chronicle, hung up the telephone after a dozen calls about weird goings-on in the Augusta skies.
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.