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 - 34 CONFIDENTIAL - AIR POUCH TO: Legal Attache Mexico City, D.F. FROM: Director, FBI SUBJECT: FLYING DISCS Reference is made to your letter dated April 5, 1949 captioned as above in which you request a copy of the Air Force memorandum mentioned in SAC Letter #38, Series 1949 dated March 25, 1949. In response thereto there is enclosed herewith the pamphlet captioned, Unconventional Aircraft issued by the Department of the Air Force under date of February 15, 1919 to which reference was made in the above-mentioned SAC Letter. Foreign Sergige Desk (detached) NI. GREKAL DEAD OF INVESTIGATION DEARTMENT OF JUVICE 两眼 38 MAY 11 1949 Mam
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.