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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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Dear Sir In regards to the " flying saucer " mystery which recently received national publicity, I, as a citizen would like to ask a few questions. If you, as head of the FBI, would be so kind as to answer I would be greatly appreciative. First, has the FBI been and is the FBI still investigating the " flying sauers" ? Second, were copies of the July 17, 1947 issue of the Arizona Republic published in Phoenix Arizona Confiscated by the FBI ? That is the FBI investigating the " Shaver Mystery" in which an author named Shaver Claims there are people
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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.