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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says all high alli video the set will speed if lo - well he don't know but it is a terrific speed said he thought 10 thousand mi, per hr. Now this does not look like a lot of horse features so I am filling it into your hands as if it is a trap for me its only you can get me in Dutch and I know you won't do that - but get it into our army chiefs hand or I do not know if this will fly or not - but on the other hand it may be all D.K. so what. is 5 feet 8 tall wt. 175 square faced gold large mustard gold text left side offer light hair sort of red chiffon arms all around short square hands short fat fingers and talks good english - blue eyes. Has friends in Buffalo Iowa, in a Russian Polo and was in world two in Europe. He has gone to New Yorkicans he knows some folks here he said he got off a submarine and gave a fishman sum of money to get him ashore near Eureka and he said was drifting in a drift boat made of rubber when stuck up - he said there was nothing to it getting ashore. When you give this to the Army Chiefs keep my hand out of it - I want to get a lot more information to give you
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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.