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.
“FBI file”7 pages
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67C al Monte, California
I wish to acknowledge your letter dated April 29, 1949, and to express my appreciation for your thoughtfulness in writing to me.
In view of the contents of your letter. I have taken the liberty of sending a copy to the United States Air force.
In the future, if you have information which may be of interest to this Bureau, you may find it more convenient to communicate with kr. H. B. Flood. Special Agent in Charge of our Los Angeles Office, 900 Security Building, Los Angeles 13, California.
Sincerely yours.
CE Los Angeles with copies of incoming.
John Edgar Hoover
Director
The correspondent communicated with the Bureau on one previous occasion enclosing a clipping from a Spanish language newspaper in Texas. She was apparently dissatisfied with the manner in which the Latin Americans were being treated in Texas. A cordial letter of acknowledgement was sent to her.
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RECORDED - 101 $ \frac{6 2}{F} \frac{8 3}{B} \frac{8 7 4}{I} - 1 7 4 $
COMMUNICATIONS SECTION
MAILED 1
MAY 10 1949 P.M.
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
INDEXED . 101
# 0x127 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.