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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 10

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 56 pages · text by OCR

This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section compiles 1950 to 1952 reports of unidentified aerial objects shared with the FBI. Most of it is an Air Force OSI investigation, dated May 12, 1952, into Donald Stewart's claim that a disc hovered over his car on Ritchie Highway near Baltimore. His companion George Tyler III later admitted he saw nothing. The file also covers disks seen at the Savannah River Plant, radar and visual sightings over Oak Ridge, a Fairbanks, Alaska jet pilot report, and an Ashland, Kentucky sighting.

  • p. 1 …No further inquiry into this matter is contemplated by the Office of Special Investigations. x any…
  • p. 2 …1952 OFFICE OF ORIGIN Hq. OSI STATUS NUC CHARACTER SPECIAL INQUIRY Unauthorized disclosure of information contained…
  • p. 4 …This is a joint investigation of Special Agents CLIFFORD P. JONES, OLIVER R. WEATHERUOLT, and the…
  • p. 19 Eates May 12, 1932 Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force…
  • p. 30 …and the above information were furnished to the local office of the Office of Special Investigations.
Eates May 12, 1932

Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25, D. C.

John Edgar Hoover. Director Federal Bureau of Investigation

Subject: FLYING DISKS REPORTELLY SEEN IN VICINITY OF SAVARNAH RIVER PLANT ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION

The Savannah Office of this Bureau has been informed that at approximately 10:45 pm, May 10, 1952, four employees of the TuPont Company employed in the Savannah River Plant near Ellenton, South Carolina, saw four disk shaped objects approaching "the four hundred area" from the south which disappeared in a northerly direction. At approximately 11:05 pm on the same date the above-mentioned employees saw two similar objects approach from the south and disappear in a northerly direction. At approximately 11:10 pm a similar object was seen by these employees approaching from the north-east and disappearing in a southwesterly direction. A similar object was also sighted about 11:15 pm traveling from south to north by the same employees.

The disks were described by the above-mentioned employees as being approximately fifteen inches in diameter and yellow to gold in color. All of the objects were allegedly traveling at a high rate of speed and at a high altitude without any noise. The disk shaped objects referred to above which approached "the four hundred area" from a northeasterly direction was reportedly traveling at such a low altitude it had to rise to pass over some tall tanks which are in "the four hundred area." The employees referred to above advised the objects were weaving from left to right but seemed to hold a general course. According to these persons because of the speed at which the objects were traveling they were only visible for a few seconds.

RECORDED : 38 INDEXED : 38 62-8.3894-

SECURITY COMMUNICATION MAINTENANCE ASSISTANT

MAY 15 1952

MAILED 25

Cases discussed

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