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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## RESTRICTED b. Air (1) Type aircraft, speed, altitude, direction of flight. (2) Distance and direction from city, town or known landmark. (3) Clock position of object from observer's aircraft. (4) Latitude and longitude. c. Sea (1) Latitude and longitude. (2) Proximity to land. (Name city, country, etc.) 4. Number of objects. Formation type (if any), sketch if possible. 5. Observable celestial phenomena or planets that may account for the sighting. (Local facilities or organizations which follow such celestial phenomena should be consulted for such information.) 6. Distance of object from observer. a. Laterally or horizontally. b. Angle of elevation from horizon. c. Altitude. 7. Time in sight. 8. Appearance of object. a. Color. b. Shape. (Sketch if possible) c. Apparent construction. (Of what material or substance) d. Size. (1) Estimated size. (2) Size as it appeared from observer's view. (Compared to known object) 9. Direction of flight. 10. Tactics or maneuvers. Vertical ascent or descent, horizontal, oscillating, fluttering, evasive, aggressive, erratic, etc. 11. Evidence of exhaust. a. Color of smoke. b. Length and width.
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.