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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.
“Los Angeles Times”7 pages
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IN REPLY, PLEASE REFER TO FILE No. ___ United States Department of Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington 25, D. C. PERSONAL ATTENTION CONFIDENTIAL SAC LETTER NO. 38 Series 1949 March 25, 1949 MEMO FOR MR. HOOVER CALLAHAN HINCE NANNA TOLSON CALLAN JONES, M. A. NAUGHTEN CLEGG CARLSON KEAY NEASE CONNELLEY CARTWRIGHT LAUGHLIN PARSONS GLAVIN CONBAD LEONARD PENNINGTON HARBO DOWNING LONG RENNEBERGER LADD EDWARDS, H. L. McCABE, E. J. ROGERS NICHOLS EGAN McCABE, N. H. SIZOO BOSEN FEENEY McGUIRE TAMM, Q. TRACY FLETCHER, H. B. McINTIRE WAIKART BAUMGARDNER GURNEA MOBLEY WALL BOSWELL MOHR WHITSON ## RE: FLYING DISCS Your attention is directed to Bureau Bulletin #57, Series 1947, dated October 1, 1947, relating to the discontinuance of investigation by this Bureau in matters concerning flying discs. For your confidential information, a reliable and confidential source has advised the Bureau that flying discs are believed to be man-made missiles rather than natural phenomenon. It has also been determined that for approximately the past four years the USSR has been engaged in experimentation on an unknown type of flying disc. The Department of the Air Force has furnished to the Bureau the attached memorandum classified "restricted" dated February 15, 1949, entitled "Unconventional Aircraft." This memorandum is being furnished to you in order that all agents assigned to your office can be informed of the type of information desired by the Air Force in this matter. As set forth in Bureau Bulletin #57, referred to above, no investigation should be conducted by your office relative to flying discs, however, the attached memorandum should be referred to in securing data from persons who desire to voluntarily furnish information to your office relating to flying discs. Very truly yours, John Edgar Hoover Enclosure Director NOT RECORDED 150 APR 4 1949 71
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.