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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Office Mem. andum . UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Director, FBI DATE: June 15, 1950 SAC, San Francisco Yuba City, California RESEARCH ## Rebulet 6-5-50. Subject was located 6-13-50 residing at San Jose, California. He was interviewed by SA of this Office, who carefully explained the jurisdiction of the FBI to him and questioned him relative to any information he might have which would be of interest to this Bureau. Mr. had nothing to add to his previous story as submitted by letter to the Bureau on 4-9-50. He was advised that any information relative to "flying saucers" did not come within the jurisdiction of this Bureau and that he could communicate such information to the Secretary of the Air Force, National Defense Building, The Pentagon, Washington 25, D.C. For the further information of the Eurcau, Mr. located, that was given to weird imaginings. Mr. stated that he would not exactly describe as being insane but stated that he was getting along in years and was prone to exaggerate on queer imaginings. It was the observation of the interviewing agent that Mr. is abnormal mentally. 06 JUL 21 1950 11:39
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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.