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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1. OFFICE AFCSI DATE 4 march 49 ATTENTION Col Martin - Rm4E1075 DATE 2. OFFICE ATTENTION 3. OFFICE DATE ATTENTION FOR: FOLLOWING ACTION(S) AS CHECKED COORDINATION NOTE AND RETURN NECESSARY ACTION RECOMMENDATION SEE OR PHONE ME APPROVAL COMMENT As per your recent request, 50 copies of Air Intelligence Requirements No. 4 are forwarded herewith for transmittal to the F.B.I. FROM: RESTRICT OFFICE AF01R-CO ROOM NO. SE203 INDIVIDUAL AWM McKenny PHONE 71067 file in file on "Jijing Disc" 1/57 F R I 3 APR 7.1949 RECORDED - 60 FX-109
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.