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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.

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  • p. 4 …perpendicular to its earth, always revolving but never losing its perpendicular position. Wille bird glasses it…
  • p. 6 …We of course call it our flying saucer, but it was never oval, and never fast…
  • p. 16 …Kirby of Carey Park has never seen a purple cow but she did see "a great…
  • p. 32 …At the time I wrote it all down and never thought any more of it until…
  • p. 69 …States at the present time, there have never been any practical developments. As a second factor…
  • p. 70 …He stated that insofar as is known to him there has never been any part of…
  • p. 81 …States at the present time, there have never been any practical developments. As a second factor…
  • p. 82 …He states that insofar as is known to him, there has never
  • p. 111 …But the white streak that was in the sky never changed its shape or did it…
agape is? We may be sure placing and their tidea within a year ago - why would not they think we did so for them - print the news for their agents & check! This is the fifth time. Give read the fifth time. Give read the fifth time. Give read the fifth time in N.D. however - and the print tides or place had been in pursuit, Corsed not the " freedom of the press" be sacrificed in such occasion for the protection of the " free" we see still are? Sincerely yours, Mrs.

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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.