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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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## C RESISTED 3. Local flight schedules of commercial, private and military aircraft flying in vicinity at the time. (Check Canadian activity if close to that border.) 4. Possible releases of testing devices in vicinity sent aloft by Ordnance, Navy, Air Force, Army, Weather Units, Research Organizations or any other. 5. If object contacted earth, obtain soil samples within and without depression or spot where object landed (and then presumably departed) for purpose of making comparison of soils. 6. If object came sufficiently near other aircraft or known objects check surfaces with Geiger counters for possible radioactivity. Make comparisons with other unaffected aircraft objects, etc. 7. Obtain photographs (or original negatives) where available; if not, secure sketches of: 2. Object. b. Surrounding terrain where observed. c. Place where it contacted earth (if this happened). d. Maneuvers. 8. Formation if objects were more than two. 8. Secure signed statement. 9. Obtain fragments or physical evidence where possible. 10. Was any radio antenna to be observed, i.e., (any projections or extentions that might presumably be construed as such). C. P. CABELL Major General, USAF Director of Intelligence, Office of Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations DISTRIBUTION: Commanding Generals Major Air Commands, ZI and Overseas All United States Alr Attaches Director of Central Intelligence Special Assistant for Research and Intelligence Department of State Director of Intelligence, GSUSA Shief of Naval Intelligence Commandant (INT), United States Coast Guard Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
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.