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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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# FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION REPORT MADE AT DATE WHEN MADE PERIOD FOR WHICH MADE REPORT MADE BY LOS ANGELES 3/30/49 12/28,29;1/29 67c TITLE: FLYING DISCS; complainant; Houston, Texas, December 27, 1948 67c INTERNAL SECURITY M SYNOPSIS OF FACT: Object described by complainant as possible flying disc determined to be a model tow target or kite which had been abandoned after unsuccessful tests. Portions of target positively identified by L.A. manufacturer and erstwhile financial backer as being part of the model target or kite. RUC REFERENCE: Teletype from Houston to Director dated 12/28/48. Teletype from Los Angeles to Director dated 12/26/48. Teletype from Los Angeles to Director dated 12/29/48. DETAILS: This investigation is predicated upon the receipt of referenced teletype from the Houston Office advising that the object in the desert near Helendale, California, resembling a flying disc. This object, described as a flying disc, had been located by of South Pasadena, California, approximately one hundred and fifty miles northeast of Pasadena or about twenty miles from Lone Pine, California. Special Agent determined that was traveling in Arizona and not available for interview.
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.