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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 06

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 129 pages · text by 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.

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“Office of Special Investigations”11 pages

  • p. 25 …Special Agent in Charge of our Los Angeles Office, 900 Security Building, Los Angeles 13, California…
  • p. 28 …GEORGE BREMER, Detachment Commander, Office of Special Investigations, Castle Air Force Base, Merced, California, advised SA…
  • p. 53 …CABELL Major General, USAF Director of Intelligence, Office of Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations DISTRIBUTION: Commanding…
  • p. 55 …This investigation is predicated upon the receipt of referenced teletype from the Houston Office advising that…
  • p. 61 …near Los Alamos by Special Agents of the Office of Special Investigation; Airline Pilots; Military Pilots…
  • p. 66 …MoSvain, Special Agent, FBI, because of official interest evidenced by his office in the matter. Very…
  • p. 67 …Chief of Staff USAF attn Dir of Special Investigations Officer of the Inspector General 3 1…
  • p. 73 …Two copies of the statement are attached for the Los Angeles Office, and one informational copy…
  • p. 75 …following statement to Special Agent and representatives of the Office of Special Investigation, Ellington OSI Detachment…
  • p. 106 # Government Bureau of Investigation United States Department of Justice Post Office Box 1850 Atlanta 1, Georgia…
  • p. 114 …This matter has been discussed by Special Agent of the Liaison Section with Lieutenant Colonel of…
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c. Odor (if any).

d. Rate of evaporation.

e. Does trail vary with sound? (spurts)

12. Effect on clouds.

a. Opened path thru clouds.

b. Forced cloud or mists.

c. Reflected on cloud.

d. Showed thru cloud.

13. Lights.

a. Reflected or attached.

b. Luminous

c. Blinked on and off in relation to speed.

a. Wings.

14. Support

b. Aerodynamic list of fuselage.

c. Vertical jet.

d. Rotating cylinder or cone.

e. Aerostatic lift (balloon or dirigible).

2. Propeller or jet.

15. Propulsion.

b. Rotor.

c. Aerodynamic vanes (flapping or oscillating) (Katz Mayer effect).

d. Visible exhaust or jet openings.

16. Control and stability.

2. Fins

b. Stabilizers (horizontal or vertical).

(1) Size.

(2) Shape.

(3) Location.

Cases discussed

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FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 129 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.