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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 09

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 67 pages · text by OCR

This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section collects 1949 and 1952 memoranda and public letters about flying saucers. Letters from citizens offering theories were acknowledged and forwarded to the Air Force, and Hoover passed along a report of objects over Thessalon Lake, Ontario, along with an anonymous German letter about a V-weapon disc. An Air Intelligence briefing said research had reached no satisfactory conclusion. Memos also trace how the negatives of a 1947 Phoenix disc photograph were handed to Air Force Intelligence.

  • p. 37 …Bureau files fail to reflect any information that can be identified with Mrs. COMM-FBI AUG…
  • p. 62 Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT INFORMATION CONCERNING FLYING DISCS BUREAU FILE 62-83894, Serials 80, 184…
  • p. 65 …Bureau files reflect that on August 29, 1947, a call at the Phoenix Office exhibiting credentials…
  • p. 67 …He said also he would straighten out informing him the FBI only as a courtesy to…
Man-made flying saucers possibly could no longer in conjunction with atom and hydro , bomb or to destroy them , Astronomers could use the information to perfect about other planets or planetary warfare . This information could be of use in a trip to the moon .

Dive the Air Force with me to keep my suspicion to myself or shall I give a statement to the press my County come first if the information should kept secret.

I signed my other letter respectfully " When a lady from Virginia pays her respects to the Air Force she expects the Air Force to pay it respects right back to her.

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FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 67 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.