Documents / FOIA release
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 Memo. andum . UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO MR. A. H. BELMONT --regarding a flying saucer and advising that press inquiries are being answered by the Buffalo Office. FLYING SAUCER COMPLAINT --regarding a flying saucer and advising that press inquiries are being answered by the Buffalo Office. Mr. was contacted and he advised that the Duty Officer at the Office of Special Investigations, Inspector General, Air Force, should be contacted and furnished the information regarding the flying sancer. Captain Air Force, Duty Officer, was telephonically contacted and furnished the information regarding the flying saucer. was contacted and advised of the teletype and that a statement was contained therein that press inquiries had been received and were being answered. instructed that the Buffalo Office be telephonically contacted and advised that they should furnish the information regarding the flying saucer to the Air Force Office in that area and that any press inquiries regarding the flying saucer should be referred to the Air Force in that area. SA of the Buffalo Office was telephonically contacted and advised of the above instructions. 150 APR 25 1950
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.