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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Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT To recommend that Bureau Liaison contact OSI to determine whether photographs allegedly taken by the captioned individual of a flying disc in 1947 were furnished by OSI to the office of Drew Pearson. Bureau files reflect that on August 29, 1947, a call at the Phoenix Office exhibiting credentials reflecting he represented A-2, Fourth Air Force, Hamilton Field, California. He asked an Agent to accompany him to interview who previously reported the photographing of a flying disc in Phoenix on the afternoon of July 7, 1947. The Phoenix Office contacted SAC Harry Kimball of the San Francisco Office and Mr. Kimball verified the fact that cone to Phoenix as a representative of Colonel of Hamilton Field, and it was suggested the Phoenix Office assist not in investigating the matter but in simply talking with Dr. By letter dated September 4, 1947, the Phoenix Office set forth in four pages the results of this interview and stated that he had requested the negatives from who did not have them in his immediate possession. stated, however, he would deliver them to the FBI the following morning for transmittal to the office at Hamilton Field, Californi On the morning of August 90, 1947, delivered the negatives to the Phoenix Office at which time they were accepted with the understanding they were being given to Mr. Bates, a representative of the Army Air Force Intelligence, United States Army, and that there was little, if any, chance of his getting the negatives back. Mr. Bates 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) ---
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.