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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 09

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 67 pages · text by GLM-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. 16 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25…
  • p. 32 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 75…
  • p. 60 …to The Honorable, The Secretary of the Air Force, Department of Defense Building, The Pentagon, Washington…

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Office Memorium . UNITED STATE GOVERNMENT

TO DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE: July 29, 1952

FROM SAC, WASHINGTON FIELD 62-0

SUBJECT: SERIAL OBJECTS Flying Saucers INFORMATION CONCERNING

J/8.15

On July 28, 1952, at the Weekly Intelligence Conference, Captain , Office of Special Investigations, 4th Air Force Base, Bolling Field, advised the representative of the FBI, Washington Field Office, over the prior weekend, his office had received reports concerning the observation of aerial objects. Captain referred to a phone call made to his office by Special Agent of the Washington Field Office, furnishing to OSI the identity of a woman who reportedly had observed an aerial object. Praised the WFO for the expeditious notification in this instance.

Captain Colonel superior office, and Special Agent in a conference on July 28, 1952, discussed the matter of immediate notification of OSI. This conference resulted in the request by Colonel and Captain that in the event, whenever information is received by the FHI, in which it is alleged that someone has observed a "Flying Saucer", this information be immediately relayed to Captain office. It is to be noted that this office may be reached by dialing Code 1261 and asking for Extension 509. Captain said this number should be called under these circumstances at any time, day or night.

Captain stated that the Air Force is greatly concerned about this matter of aerial objects and said that the Air Force Intelligence would appreciate the execution of the requested procedure, mentioned above. It is suggested that the Bureau bring this matter to the attention of its night supervisors, since these night supervisors also receive complaints from persons outside of the Bureau and may receive information concerning the observation of aerial objects.

RECORDED . 59 62-83884-289 JUL 31 1952

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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. 67 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.