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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. 35 …The paper said a report now on files at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base lists 240…
  • p. 61 …During the past two months various sightings of unexplained phenomena have been reported in the vicinity…

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62-93794-1169

Atlanta, Georgia 67c

EX-43 Dear Mr. 67C

Your letter of April 27, 1949, has been received, and I want to thank you for sending me the newspaper clipping which you enclosed together with your observations concerning the designs you submitted to the federal government in 1942. Although I would like to be of service, checks of the type you desire are not within the scope of this Bureau's activities. It was very thoughtful of you to contact me in that regard.

Sincerely yours,

John Edgar Hoover Director

WN: r1c r9e

COMMUNICATIONS SECTION 08 03A10

MAY 4 1949 P.M.

PRESENT MINISTRY OF INVESTIGATION U. B. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

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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.