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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 07

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 84 pages · text by OCR

This FBI file section collects Bureau correspondence on flying discs from 1947 to 1950. It includes a Portland field office memo on police officers who saw a silvery object over the city on September 11, 1947, and letters from citizens with sightings, theories and questions, along with Hoover's form replies. There is also a Chicago memo about a letter describing a secret saucer bomber, and a Louisville report on Al Hixenbaugh's June 1950 film of a disk. Other items include a Yuba City informant's drawings of a supposed Russian saucer and a note on Donald Keyhoe's book.

  • p. 3 …stated that he has never seen an object at such an extreme height before and that…
  • p. 6 …peculiar viewpoint , but it has amazing logic never met the man who could learn how a…
  • p. 62 …radar interference of a type he had never before experienced. (See enclosure (3)). Contact was lost…
Anchorage File 100-1406

It may be stated to the Bureau that Mr. is a well known flyer as well as Mr. and both are known to be very reliable and responsible people, and it appears definite that they observed something.

The above is being submitted for the information of the

Bureau.

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100-1406

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