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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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CONFIDENTIAL PRIORITY PARAPHRASE NOT REQUIRED From: CO Kirtland AFB New Mexico To: Chief of Staff USAF attn Dir of Special Investigations Officer of the Inspector General 3 1 Mr: OSI-1-90 21 January 1949 Reference previous reports, subject; unknown, aerial phenomena, file number 24-8. Sighting of identical object reported at 2255Z 30 Jan 49 by aprx 30 people. Estimate at least 100 total sightings. AEC, AFSAP, 4th Army, local commanders perturbed by implications of phenomena. Sighting reported from El Paso, Alburquerque, Alamogordo, Roswell, Socorro, and other locations. All appear to be same object at different points in trajectory. Unless instructed to contrary this office will make all out investigation with view to location of impact point if any. Request reply. ACTION: AF INFO: ID PO RECORDED - 149 160-83894-15 Q.1N 321 13 FEB 11 1949 (2 Feb 49) DTG: 312145Z dgk/B RC 5/1 50 FLE 28 1949 192 EX-16 COPY file . CONFIDENTIAL slub
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.