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This Federal Bureau of Investigation file release gathers memos, teletypes and letters from 1949 and 1950 on flying saucer reports. Most of it covers a March 1950 claim by a Knoxville radio technician that his surplus APN-7 radar detected an object over Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Navy radar never confirmed the object, and Air Force examiners judged his equipment unreliable. Other items include a cardboard saucer hoax near Elmira, New York, a pilot's 1949 formation sighting in Oregon and a Denver claim of a crashed disc.
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Office Mem lum . UNITED STATL GOVERNMENT Special Agent of the New Orleans Division, has a brother, of the advertising agency, Denver, Colorado. has advised Special Agent that an employee of the has been contacted by one Street, telephone Denver, Colorado, regarding Flying Discs. is alleged to have told in January, 1950, that he ( ) knows a prominent Denver oilman named ( ) also known as a Mysterious Mr. X", and an official of the Denver, Colorado. is claiming that he leased land in the Mojave Desert in California and that on this land a flying disc had been found intact, with eighteen three-foot tall human-like occupants, all dead on it but not burned. Further, that the disc was alleged to be of very hard metal and near indestructible. is said to have exhibited a radio set to purported to be a souvenir of the space disc. According to has been telling of this story off and on for the three month period prior to January, 1950, and is said to have notified of it weeks prior to the publication of a flying disc article published in the True Magazine, and one by FRANKE SCULLY published in the Variety Magazine in January, 1950. claimed to have been visited by DONALD HEHOE, author of the article in the True Magazine. Further data was furnished that had been telling the tale so prolifically in Denver that he claimed to have had telephone calls from Washington, D. C. and from the Federal Bureau of Investigation in which he was requested to keep the information to himself and that, thereafter, he became mysterious about the entire matter. It is noted that considerable publicity regarding these discs has been found in Denver and other papers. This information is being furnished the Bureau and the designated offices for informational purposes.
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. 66 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.