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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Federal Bureau of Investigation. Pittsburgh, Pa. ## Gentlemen: Following the appearance in this town on November 6, 1947, of a Mr. Red Cross, Pittsburgh, Pa., as "speaker of the evening", at the annual local Red Cross dinner, I was told by Dr. local practicing dentist, that in a personal conversation, following the dinner, Mr. told him that the "saucers" reported as seen in various parts of the country, were actually from Spain. He said that Mr. said that this had been ascertained by the Government in Washington, but that it was not being made known. He said that Mr. had been in Europe and inferred that he had been in Spain and knew conditions over there. Dr. is a man active in the Methodist Church and the local Protestant Mons Club, and it is easy to see how far this report can be spread. The fact that the Federal Government indorses the Red Cross makes a statement of an official representative of that organization almost indisputable. As a representative of the Federal Government and as a citizen interested in truth and World peace and racial and religious harmony in our own country, I question the advisability of an accredited representative of the Red Cross giving out this information, even "off the record". I thought you might be able to check with Mr. or his organization. Yours very truly.
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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.