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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 07

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 84 pages · text by GLM-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. 50 …official attitude toward the matter? I wish to thank you in advance for your interest and…
  • p. 58 …By 1947 the thing had snowballed to such an extent that the Swedish Government finally issued…

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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.