Documents / FOIA release
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.
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Mr. states that no one connected with the knows of anyone named nor do they know of anyone who lives in the circulation area of their paper with that name. Mr. stated he did not want to publish this letter as he felt the Army desired that the matter be kept confidential. He will contact this office again if he receives the "zinc cuts" or has any other correspondence from He felt that might send the same information to other publishers who may print the story. There was no return address for on either the envelope or the letter. There is, however, an listed in the telephone directory at and an at Chicago. This information is being transmitted to the Bureau for such action as it deems appropriate. The Chicago indices are negative regarding
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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. 84 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.