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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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# Movies Snapped of Sky Disk By Alert Times Photographer Yes, we have some flying saucers today, and for the first time, here are moving pictures for proof. Many have reported seeing the saucers but it remained for Al Hizenbaugh to do something about it—with his trusty 16 mm. magazine-loading movie camera. "Hix," Times staff photographer, took 50 feet of film in which the bright flying object shows clearly in all. Army officials have been informed and have indicated eagerness to examine the pictures. The photographer was at Longest and Everett Avenues, near his home at 2205 Longest, at 4:15 p.m. yesterday. He was on his way to take some movies of birds. Suddenly he heard the rear of a big plane—a twin-motored DC-3—and glanced overhead. At first he thought it was a jet plane. Then he looked to the west of the plane, which was flying southwest toward Standiford Field—and saw the large disk. It had a slight corona around it and seemed to be lower than the plane. He aimed his camera and fired. While he around out the film, he said, the object appeared motionless for about 10 seconds. "It stood practically still, like a balloon," he said. It stood practically still, like a balloon," he said. Then it began to get smaller, finally vanishing into the west. While the "saucer" appears on all of the film he took, the plane was out of the picture field quickly, appearing only on about 10 feet. The disk was within his vision "about a minute." "Hix" contacted the newroom at WHAS and from there Jerry Gammons called Standiford and Bowman Fields and weather officials. None had heard any reports of a "flying saucer." He was advised to inform military officials at Godman Field. Godman said it would notify flight headquarters at Wright-Patterson Field which might send an aide to examine the films. This is what a "flying saucer" looks like, if there really is such a thing. Al Hixenbaugh, Times' photographer, snapped movies of the object yesterday. The object appears almost as big as the twin-motored DC-3 to the right. ENCLOSURE 62 - 0 : 894 - 210 The Louisville Times Louisville, Kentucky June 28, 1950
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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.