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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RECORDED - 135 IDEXED - 135 / 2 - 2 / 11 - 170 Dashenful 2010 52177 CONFIDENTIAL BY SPECIAL MESSENGER To: Director of Special Investigations, (I. O.) Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25, D. C. From: John Bigar Hoover - Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation Subject: INFORMATION CONCERNING FLYING SAUCERS MRS. - INFORMANT 67c Enclosed is a photostatic copy of a letter dated April 29, 1949, received by this Bureau from Mrs. concerning flying saucers. 67c The correspondent has been advised that a copy of her letter has been forwarded to the United States Air Force. This letter is being forwarded to you for any action you may deem advisable. Enclosure
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.