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•Qjfice Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
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TO : Director, FBI DATE: May 13, 1949
dJ :~c, Los Angeles
SUBr;j; ~YING DISK" REPORT
C,!RF0RMATI0N COOCERNING
On May 5, 1949 Mr. MEL HODELL, a reporter for the Sun-Star
nswspaper, Merced, California, advised Special Agent MARLIN W. JOHNSON,
that his paper had been contacted by Lt. Col. STANLEY JACOBS, Intelligence
Officer, Castle Air Force Base, Merced, California, re.Lative to any
reports that the newspaper might have received concerning "fiying disks"
in the Merced vicinity.
Mr. HODELL stated a c.Lose friend of his, one WILLI.All H ~,
12-A Langdon Villa, Merced, tad advised him that he had obse~A=HO'l"
strange object, and as he is in the Air Cc,rps Reserve, he reported same
to the Intelligence Officer at Castle Field.
On the same date Mr. GEORGE BREMER, Detachment Commander, Office
of Special Investigations, Castle Air Force Base, Yerced, California, advised
SA MARLIN W. JOHNSON that he bad heard tt.t an individual bad reported
s eeing a '1flyi.ng disk" to the Intelligence Office at the Base but that
the Intelligence Officer had not furnished the information to him. Mr.
BREHER later on the same date contacted SA JOHNSON arxl exhibited a letter
written by STANIEY F . JACOBS, Lt. Col., USAF, Adjutant (Int elligence
Officer) to Commanding General, Air Material Command, Wright-Patterson
AFB, Wright Field, Ohio. This letter contained a statement given by
Mr. WILLIAM H. PARROTT 11'hioh read as follows, 11 I bad occasion to step
from my home, located approximately one mile west of the town of Merced,
on the night of April 4, 1949, at approximately 2220. My attention was
diverted to a clicking noise of considerable intensity. I stopped on the
sidewalk about 20 feet from the front steps am recognized the source of
this clicking to be in the sky in an area about 4U degrees from the sur face
of the earth in an easterly direction. The sky cend1.tion was 200<Xl thin
broken with 12 miles visibility and surface winds were reported as north
nine M.P.H. at Castle Air Force weather station. My home is a pproximately
seven miles south of Castle Air Force Base and in an area somewhat sheltered
from surface winds,and no appreciable surface wind was apparent at the
time the aural observation was made. After about ten seconds of lo oking
into the area described previously as being the source of this sound, an
object was observed blanking out stars in describing a flight path in a
west or northwesterly direction. Only one object was apparent, its shape
can be described as only a solid mass. Its size can be estimated as four
or f ive feet in diameter in keeping with an estimated altitude of con
siderably less than 1000 (one tbeusand) feet. Color was shown by the
reflection of grow:xl lights on only two occasions, and appeared to be
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