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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. 44 …of the Office of Special Investigations, the Inspector General, U. S. Air Force by your office…
  • p. 46 …the Inspector General's Office of the 17th District of Special Investigations, Kirtland Air Force Base…
PART TWO

THIS OFFICE AND ABOVE FOR YOUR INFO ONLY.

HISE MURPHY

CORRECTION PLS 6TH LINE 7TH WORD SHOULD BE THIRTYFIVE

PLS ACK

HOLD PLS

cc Mr. Belmont

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