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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 07

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 84 pages · text by 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.

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These snavers are 30 feet and more in die and not very heavy Ubalsky says. The plane division of our any can soon figure this out I cannot as it is out of my line but I see the mechanics of it I did see any profellor on it in the drawings I saw by use a jet on it to so Ubalsky says. They use pellets in a case in the get and it fires like a cannon and the recoil sends the snavers very fast

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