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.
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the subject of a letter from the Atlanta office to the Bureau dated August 10, 1948, entitled, INFORMATION CONCERNING. She has written many letters to military authorities concerning her theories regarding atomic Energy. She has generally been considered unreliable and possibly mentally unbalanced. She, however, has submitted to Military authorities the only theory thus known that has any credibility at all, namely, that the lights are manifestations of cosmic rays which are directed toward a specific point. She further theorizes that such rays may interfere with the ignition of motors and may account for various unexplained air crashes. The above is submitted for the confidential information of the Bureau and offices to which copies of this letter are directed so that these offices may evaluate any such reports they may have received or may receive in the future. It is noted that the Fourth Army has the responsibility of protecting vital installations at Los Llanos, New Mexico, Sandia Base, New Mexico, and C-70 Road, Texas. Any information developed should be expeditiously transmitted to G-2, Fourth Army. It is further noted that G-2 and O.S.I. are actively engaged in investigating this matter. No investigation is being conducted by this office.
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.