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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 06

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 129 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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.

  • p. 37 …DAVIS attempted to advise his headquarters by telephone immediately after the sighting, he heard static or…
  • p. 47 # DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE DIRECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE WASHINGTON 25, D…
  • p. 48 …be forwarded to the Director of Intelligence, Headquarters United States Air Force. (3) Commanding General, Air…
  • p. 73 …course, with O.S.I. representatives. Mr. headquarters are the District Commander, 5th O.S.I…
  • p. 101 …It is the desire of this Headquarters to assemble, in particular, if there are traces of…
  • p. 114 …The memorandum indicated that the San Francisco Field Division had received a letter from the headquarters…
  • p. 115 …The Headquarters of the Air Forces in Washington are being contacted by the Bureau in order…
  • p. 116 …Inasmuch as these recent instructions of the Headquarters, Air Defense Command, Mitchell Air Force Base, New…
  • p. 117 Headquarters Air Defense Command Mitchel Air Force Base, New York 4 February 1948 SUBJECT: Investigation and…
  • p. 118 …Reports will be submitted directly to Headquarters, USAF, ATTN: Directorate of Intelligence, Air Intelligence Requirements Branch…

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supposed to the rocket lift . No! Mr. Knowe this was told me in 1944 or 43 . At the time I wrote it all down and never thought any more of it until later . And maybe I am foolish but I thought maybe this tried something to do with the flying saucers , if true . I am a true American and lost my country and if I can do any service for my country I am glad of it . The flying sauces could be more dangerous than we think .

Respectfully yours.

670

P.5.

9 lived within a few miles of Mexican border When this was tried me. In Texas.

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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.