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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 06

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 129 pages · text by OCR

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.

  • p. 28 …SAC, Los Angeles SUBJECT: "REYING DISK" REPORT INFORMATION CONCERNING On May 5, 1949 a reporter for…
  • p. 56 …Manufacturing Company, Los Angeles. The parts made available by Mr. were exhibited to Mr. and he…
  • p. 61 …near Los Angeles, attempting to learn characteristics of the unexplained phenomenon. Up to this time little…
  • p. 62 …Los Angeles, but only at the end of the flight toward the apparent "target", namely, Los…
  • p. 75 …electrical manufacturing company which he owns and operates in Los Angeles, California. Mr. told us about…
  • p. 78 …As I recall, this Eastman shop was on Los Palmas Street in Los Angeles, California. They…
  • p. 84 …At 3:30 p.m., I called SAC Hood of the Los Angeles Office and instructed…
My contention may a may not be possible or probable - but I am an intelligent American citizen 939 , believe I have a point to make.

An incident occurred at the Fargo, N. O., airport about two miles away, that of a fleir discovering a flying object in the air following it in his plane but not being able to either identify it or see it come to the ends

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