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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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Director of Special Investigations Headquarters, United States Air Force Washington 25, D. C. 1. Reference is made to Spot Report TX from this Headquarters dated 30 June 1950, making reference to an undidentified flying object sighted on 29 June 1950 at Phoenix, Arizona. 2. An interview with 1st Lt. JOHN D. FINK, AO-023052, 92rd Fighter Squadron, Kirtland AFB reveals that on 29 June 1950 at a pred- nately 1340 hours Lt. FINK sighted this object. Lt. FINK obliquely to 47,000 while flying an F-86 aircraft and observed that the object was a bright balloon with instruments attached and was floating at an altitude of 50,000 feet. 3. It. FLEK described the speed of the balloon as being very slow and further described the balloon as being an "inverted drop". 4. Inasmuch as the previously unidentified object has been positively identified a. a balloon, further investigation will not be conducted in this incident. 63 AUG 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.