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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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this uses centrifugal force and is all connected to weights that revolve at right angles to the full on the sancer. I presume engines are synchronized as to speed the rot of the revolving balls gives the full to full "sancer" and the whole mechanism is inside of the "sancer" there are a bottom and top sancers 142 said there is an up and down sudder and a sideways sudder but very small and they are handled by electronic gadgets at high speed. The sancers are made of magnesium and reinforced for strength they look something like this the sancers it links are air light

these drawings are not much _ but there is not much to them as I cannot give dimensions our text will have to figure that out as I am dam luck to find this out and be all to-getter .

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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.