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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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 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 day Mr. OSI representative, Phoenix, Arizona, called the Phoenix Office stating he had been requested by his superiors in San Francisco to obtain detailed information concerning the negatives since had requested their return. pointed out that 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. (62-83894, Serials 80, 184, and 225) ## RECENT DEVELOPMENTS On June 4, 1952, Mr. Cunningham in the office of Drew Pearson, called and talked with Special Agent Nick. stated Pearson had been in contact with the captioned individual concerning photographs which had taken of flying discs in the Phoenix area in July of 1947. stated the subject told Pearson the FBI borrowed his negatives and when he asked for their return the FBI told him the negatives were not available. inquired whether there was any truth to statement and what the Bureau knew concerning him. It appeared that Pearson was interested in using the photographs on his television program and was desirous of borrowing them from the Bureau or having them returned to the subject. Mr. was advised by Wick that the FBI did not have in its possession the negatives referred to by Mr. and in fact knew full well the returns them over to Air Force Intelligence representatives, Fourth Air Force Hamilton Field, California, on August 30, 1947, with the understanding he might never have them 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 representat from Hamilton Field while interviewing was told that for these reasons, of course, we had no information concerning the reliability of
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.