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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. 73 …of other trips on the Atlantic coast. I am at Redwood Valley now on alif on…

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Here is a sketch of a "flying saucer," as was given to me by a free hand drawing by me after going over Ubalsteys drawings. I was very interested in same as to what made it "Lick," and I will see you the sketches by me as I have a pretty good memory on what I see. I said these "saucers," can have tremendous speed and says when one is launched near Seringrad it is but 3 hrs if not in to much of a hurry New York, Washington, Boston, Albany and a lot of other trips on the Atlantic coast.

I am at Redwood Valley now on alif on 161 highway 9 me north of Uhigh. Will go back to Yuba City and Marysville and Stockton next week after understand these "saucers" do not need much

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