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.
“Los Angeles Times”7 pages
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to glance ^ 5 9. 0 zenille^ 11 5 6 was clear and was surprised to see a small object bright in the sunset. It might have been half of its smallest of cloak but its shape was angular, more like a piece of torn paper. This shape changed as the object floated north easterly before the wind; sometimes it appeared to have a bite taken out of it, several times it seemed one of a hand. I called my husband and sister and later one house keeper and a friend of hers. As his object grew smaller it seemed to be on fire, an
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