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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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## Continuous Light The pilots admitted they had goose pimples riding pick-a-back on goose pimples. What's more, they said one of their 20 passengers—C. L. McKelvie, of Columbus, Ohio—was awake and saw the same thing. Reporters nailed Mr. McKelvie at Kennett Square, Pa. How about; it, they asked him-had he seen what the Atlanta pilots said he saw? Well, now, said Mr. McKelvie not exactly. He said he saw "no form of ship" whatever. He saw a "continuous light speed past" his window. "But," added Mr. McK., "Tim not very well versed in aeronautics, and certainly I wasn't looking for any Buck Rogers space ship." Out at Santa Monica, Cal., the famous Gen. George C. Kenney, chief of the Strategic Air Command, was bearded in his den. His eyes twinkled. No, he said, cautiously, it wasn't one of his planets. The Army as yet hasn't got anything like the Thing seen over Montgomery. Not Boeing Plans "I wish we did" the general said wistfully. "I sure would have liked to see that Thing." So said William M. Allen, president of the Boeing Aircraft Co. up at Seattle. "I'm pretty sure it wasn't one of our planes," said Mr. Allen, modestly. Almost identical statements issued by the Army Air Forces at Washington and the United States Weather Bureau at Montgomery tended to throw some light on this fantasy. Both sources suggested that the Atlanta pilots had flown part an air radar weather observation balloon. Those things, they explained, are 10 feet in diameter and have square, tinfoil boxes fastened to them. The boxes reflect light and "give strange illusions" as they twist and turn. Maxwell Field said they send 'em up at six-hour intervals. And Maxwell Field is at Montgomery. ATIANTA JOURNAL SUNDAY, 7/25/48
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.