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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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Office Memorandum . UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT DIRECTOR, FBI DATE: July 11, 1950 SRM FROM : SAC, CHICAGO SUBJECT: O FLYING DISC Reference is made to SAC letter #58, series 1949. Mr. Downers Grove, Illinois, telephone number - telephonically advised SA at 9:54 PM, July 4, 1950, that at 9:58 PM on July 4, 1950, he observed a large, bright, silvery object moving at an approximate altitude of 10,000 feet, in a north, north-westerly direction over Downers Grove. Mr. said that his wife also observed this object. He stated that he estimated the speed of the object at 700 to 800 miles by comparing its rate of movement with that of commercial airplanes. Mr. advised that he is a meteorologist with United Air Lines and the object he observed was not a plane nor was it a fireworks display. The above is being submitted for your information. JEK:BJB 100-18999 RECORDED - 129 162-83894-0 JUL 18 1950 INDEXED - 129 37 EX-81 51 JUL 24 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.