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.
“Office of Special Investigations”11 pages
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## RESTRIED
(1) Neighbors.
(2) Police Dept.
(3) FBI records.
(4) Employer.
8. Notes relative to observer on:
a. Sightings in general.
b. How attention was drawn to object(s).
(1) Sound.
(2) Motion.
(3) Glint of light.
c. Degree of fatigue and duration of flight at time of sighting in cases where observer is airborne.
0. Witnesses.
a. Addressees.
b. Occupation.
c. Reliability.
## Relative to Radar Sightings
10. Comments of interrogator regarding the intelligence and character of person interrogated.
1. Re radars operating on ground.
a. Observations of range, speed, altitude and size of target.
b. Did target executive any turn? If so, what angle $ (180^{\circ}) $ , etc. and what radius of turn. If radius of turn is not observable, how long did the target stay in the turn and what was its speed?
c. Note particularly any separation of distant target into several targets upon approach. Track all if possible.
2. If airborne when object sighted.
a. Were there any radar inductions or extra noise on radio circuits?
b. Give estimates of size, speed, maneuvers, etc.
## GENERAL
1. Teletype sequences of local weather conditions.
2. Winds aloft report. 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.