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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CDU1016 LONG NL PD=NEWYORK NY 13= WALTER WINCHELL=RONEY PLAZA HOTEL MIAMI BEACH FLO= HAVE THE ONLY AUTHENTIC JAPANESE FLYING SAUCER EVER RECOVER IN THIS COUNTRY. BECAUSE OF YOUR INTEREST--IN THE PRESENT DAY FLYING DISCS OF THE RUSSIANS WOULD LIKE VERY MUCH TO HAVE YOU JOIN ME ON THE DELIEVE IT OR NOT TELEVISION SHOW. NEXT TUESDAY APRIL 19TH NBC NETWORK 930 TO 10PM AND GIVE YOUR COMMENTS ON FLYING DISC AND YOUR EXCLUSIVE KNOWLEDGE OF THIS LATEST RUSSIAN MENACE. REGARDS BELIEVE IT OR NOT =RIPLEY= 19 NDC·930 10PM J.B.I. DEST. OF JUSTICE YEAR 30 02 6H.42 IVISION RECLION STATIC FYECH RECEIVED JUNG 1949 COMPANY WILL APPRECIATE SUGGESTIONS FROM ITS PATRONS CONCERNING ITS SERVICE
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.