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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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Office Memorandum . UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : DIRECTOR, FBI DATE: March 22, 1949 FROM : SAC, SAN ANTONIO SUBJECT: PROTECTION OF VITAL INSTALLATIONS BUREAU FILE 65-58300 CONFIDENTIAL 2040 8/31/77 H11 Re San Antonio lotter to the Director dated January 31, 1949, which outlined discussion had at recent weekly Intelligence Conferences of G-2, ONI, OSI and FBI in the Fourth Army Area concerning "Unidentified Aircraft" or "Unidentified Areial Phenomena" otherwise known as "flying discs", "Flying saucers" and "balls of fire". It is repeated that this matter is considered secret by Intelligence Officers of both the Army and the Air Force. G-2, 4th Army, has now advised that the above matter is now termed "Unconventional Aircraft" and investigations concerning such matters have been given the name "Project Grudge". G-2, 4th Army, advised on February 16, 1949, a conference was held at Los Alamos, New Mexico, to consider the so-called "Green fire ball phenomena" which began about December 5, 1948. It was brought out this question has been classified "secret" and that investigation is now the primary responsibility of the U.S. Air Force, Air Material Command, T-2. Dr. LINCOLN LA PAZ of the University of New Mexico, discussed one siting which he himself had made which was termed the "Starvation peak incident" and described the following characteristics which indicated that the phenomenon could not be classified as a normal meteorite fall. 1. There was an initial bright light (no period of intensity increase) and constant intensity during the duration of the phenomenon. 2. Yellow green color about 5200 Angstroms. 3. Essentially horizontal path. 4. Trajectory traversed at constant angular velocity. 5. Duration about two seconds. 6. No accompanying noise. RECORDED JEJ:md 2 cc: El Paso (100-4562) 2 cc: Dallas " ", Houston " " Little Rock " " Oklahoma City 1-169 15 Apr. 4. 1949 rX-19
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.