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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jeai sus : We live in Maine in the town of Nobleboro, about a mile northwest of省 No 1, on Dawes colta Pond. Yesterday May 14, there was a high light and a shower in the afternoon but it cleared 5U for sunset. There was a moderate southwest Greece at 7:45 P.M. RECORDED 62 62-83894 -1771 of clouds on the horizon, especially to the east were rosy. I happened at that time
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.