Documents / FOIA release
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.
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## Memorandum to Mr. Tolson June 4, 1952 On the morning of August 30, 1947, delivered the negatives to the Phoenix Office at which time they were accepted with the understanding they were being given to Mr. a representative of the Army Air Force Intelligence, United States Army, and that there was little, if any, chance of him getting the negatives back. Mr. turned the negatives over to the FBI with the full understanding they were being given to the Air Force and he would not get them back. (62-83894-80, page 4) On April 17, 1950, Mr. advised the Phoenix Office that True Magazine would like to secure the photographs which he had made available to Air Force Intelligence. At that time Rhodes was referred to OSI, Fourth Air Force Base, San Francisco, California, since they had been made available to this agency by the Phoenix Office on August 30, 1947. By letter dated June 8, 1949, the Phoenix Office advised the Bureau that on the previous date Mr. OSI representative, Phoenix, Arizona, colled the Phoenix Office stating he had been requested by his superiors in San Francisco to obtain detailed information concerning the negatives since had request their return. He pointed out that his recollection on the matter was "hazy." OSI requested and was given with Bureau approval a memorandum setting out essentially the information related above concerning this matter. ACTION TAKEN Mr. was advised by Nick that the FBI did not have in its possession the negatives referred to by Mr. and in fact knew full well the FBI turned then over to Air Force Intelligence representatives, Fourth Air Force, Hamilton Field, California, on August 90, 1947, with the understanding he might never have then returned. was advised the FBI did not investigate this matter, did not investigate and had no interest whatsoever in the matter other than to accompany the representative from Hamilton Field while interviewing was told that for these reasons, of course, we had no information concerning the reliability of Rhodes. was most appreciative for receiving this Infor motion and said he would contact the office of Special Investigations of the Air Force for what assistance they might be to him. He said also he would straighten out informing him the FBI only be a courtesy to the Air Force representatives received the negatives from him and transmitted them.
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.