J. Edgar Hoover

As director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover followed the flying saucer question from his desk. July 10, 1947. Brig. Gen. George F. Schulgen asked the Bureau to help question witnesses of the summer's flying disc wave. Hoover wrote by hand that the FBI must insist on full access to any discs recovered. That August, Special Agent Jack B. Wilcox reported to him on the Maury Island Incident, filed under Security Matter X. In 1950, during the Oak Ridge radar-visual flap, the FBI logged 16 unidentified radar targets. Hoover ordered an inquiry into possible radar jamming. Then the sightings stopped.

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The Maury Island Incident

June 21, 1947 · East Passage of Puget Sound, off Maury Island, King County, Washington

UAP · Other · 77 sources

35Partially documented

The 1947 Flying Disc Craze: America's First Flying Saucer Wave

c. 1947 · United States (nationwide, heaviest in the Pacific states: California, Washington and Oregon)

UAP · Disc / saucer · 31 sources

55Partially documented

FBI director who demanded access to recovered discs

The Oak Ridge Atomic Plant Radar-Visual Flap

October 1950 · Oak Ridge and Knoxville, Tennessee

UAP · Other · 23 sources

58Partially documented

FBI Director, ordered an inquiry into possible radar jamming