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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Office Memorandum . UNITED S. OES GOVERNMENT TO : MR. D. M. LADY DATE: December 28, 1948 Reference is made to the teletype of December 28, 1948, from the Houston Office. At 3:30 p.m., I called SAC Hood of the Los Angeles Office and instructed that he attempt to locate Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. secure photographs and film in their possession and also secure from them the location of the described flying disc. I also instructed that Mr. Hood send out sufficient Agents to find the disc and guard it until it could be properly handled by the appropriate Govern authority. I also telephoned the Houston Office and told them to send in the photographs or film in their possession, together with the part which had been recovered from the machine by the Informant Noack. At 5:00 p.m., SAC Hood called back and stated that all work on this matter should be immediately discontinued. They had managed to reach Mr. and he stated that he knew all about this matter; that it was not a flying disc, but an object which had been identified as a tow kite, which has a disc center and wings. This kite is actually made in Los Angeles by the Manufacturing Company. A call was made to who admitted making a kite along the lines described by and they explained that they had tried to fly it and it had failed and they had abandoned it. 67c Mr. Hood stated he did not have full details at the time of his call, but he did have this report from the Agents. Therefore, I instructed that he call Mr. of the Houston Office immediately in order that the film and the part available to the Houston Office will not be forwarded for Laboratory examination. HBF:esb 10/29/48 5-21 RECORDED . 42 12 - 8 15 15 2 INDEXED . 42 34 JAN 5 1945 63 JAN 101949
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.