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The FBI's 62-HQ-83894 case file includes investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports concerning Unidentified Flying Objects and flying discs documented between June 1947 and July 1968. The records include high-profile incident accounts, photographic evidence from sites like Oak Ridge, TN, and technical proposals regarding potential propulsion systems. Additional topics include convention programs, researcher accounts, and extensive media coverage from the period. This file is partially posted on FBI vault with more redactions and some pages missing. Included here is the complete case file with several newly declassified pages and only minor redactions.

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FLYING SAUCERS, SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT, AEC .
SECURITY OFFICE OF AEC
ADVISED THIS DATE THAT TWO EMPLOYEES OF THE E. I . DU PONT COMPANY
SAw A BLUE LIGHT WITH AN ORANGE FRINGE SHAPED LIKE A SAUCER FLY OVER
THE FOUR HUNDRED AREA OF THE SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT AT APPROXIMATELY
NINE THIRTY PM AUGUST EIGHT, FIFTYTWO.
OBJECT FLYING AT A HIGH RATE
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August 11, 1952
llr. Edmond J.1
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Mauston, Wtsconstn
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Dear JJr. Kane:
Your letter dated August 1, 195'?, has
been received, and I a ppr e ctate t ) e t , terest which
promoted your brt n9tn g uour observations to my
attentton.
Ina s much as the matter of the /lyin g
saucers ts bet n~ i n ve st igated by t he United States
Atr " orc e, I am tattn g the liberty o/ / orwardtng a
copy of your 1 et t er to the Di rector of $.~~ i al In.ve3it igat i ons ,
The I nspect:or Gerner.al,. :Depa-rtmerf't: of -fJh•e A n : Force, 'I!te Pentagon,
Yfa s h i ngt.on,. D. C. I / you have ; u rcn. er observattona along
t r. ts ltne, I ~ould sug ~est that you may wtsh to ooamu nica t e dtreotlv with htm.
S incerely youra,
Jo hn Edgar Hoover
Director
Copy by form to A ir For c e Intelligence.
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Mr. J . Edgar Hoover, Director
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Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
As a retired member of the St Paul Pol ice Force and having had
numerous pleasant contacts with Agent Clintonste.in and Samy Har4Y,
I take the liberty of an opinionthat came to me that th~flying
saucers scare seems possible that the rel~se..d.. enfil'gLQ~oded
A½?mic Bombs could be soaring around in the atmosphere.
I know
you can channel this thought to ""tlre prupet atrbhoritt~and cer­
tainly would appreciate your comments on this thouiht.
I am a Veteran of both ·.:orld War #1 and #2 and also a member of
the American Legion for 32 years. I am presently a member of
The American Legion Post #81 of Mauston, .iisconsin which is
known as the Burton-Koppang Post.
If this thought is instrumental in tracking down the source of
this scare thereby releaving some of the tension to our American
Country, it may be worth following up at this time.
Thanking you very much for your cooperation and consideration in·
this matter and will you please acknowledge and advise your can­
ments .
Yours very truly,

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Hauston, v-Jisconsin

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Mra. Ora ~ y grett
c/o Lou Uerlaw Far~
Rural Route No . l
New Palestine, Indiana
Deor Jlrs . Tygrett:
four letter dated July 31, 1952, addressed to the
War Departnent, c/o Federal Bureau of Investigation, has been
received.
Tour interest 1,n fu rri iahing your observation in
this regard is appreciated.
In view o.f th e contents of your comm.uni cation
wh ich also appear to be of i nterest to the Department of
the Air Force, I have taken the liberty of .furnishing
th.at Agency a copy of your 1 etter.
S incerely yours ,
John Edgar Hoover
Director
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Auguai 13., 1952
Mrecior o/ Special Inueaiigaiiona
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The Penia~on
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John Edgar Hoover, Dtrec1or
Federal Bureau o/ lnueaitga tion
Subjeci: o,.LIING DISKS
There ia aitached a Phoioatai of a ael/
ezplanaioru leiier dated Auguai 5, 1952, ai
Poniiac, Jlichtgan 1 received bu thia Bureau /roa
J/r. r . a. Jennin gs, 3096 Ha;ulaar11, Zone 1 7, Pon-tiac,
Jlichtgan, relaiing to t he capiioned maiier.
Jlr. Jenninga' le1 i er has been acknowledged
and he has been inf ormed ihai a cop u o/ hia letter
haa been /urniahed· io uour o//tce /or approp rt a ie
aitention. No Juriher act ion t a con t emplated in 1his
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Date:
Augua t 13, 1952
To:
Director of Special Investigations
Ths Inspector General
Department of t h• .A£r Force
The Pentagon
rashtngton 25, D• c.
From:
John Edgar Hoover, Director
Federal Bureau o/ Investtgatton
Su bject:q ,LTING DISKS
There ta attached a copv o/ a self
ezplanator71 letter dated Julu 31, 1952 , received
b71 thi a Bureau from J/r. Benedf cto Roattro, 1647
Part Avenue, New rort Ctty, relating to the
capttoned •atter.
1/r. Romero's letter ha.a been actno0ledged
and he has been inJoraed that a cop11 o/ hta letter
has been /urntshsd to uour oJ/tce /or appropriate
attftntion. No further action ts cont~m.plated in
thts matter bu thta Bureau.
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Augua t 14 1 l 958
To:
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The Inspector General
Deparnent of t he A1r Force
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S'r,AN.OAR•() FORM NO. 64
Office Memoranduni • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
8, 1952
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SUBJ~Cef ANONYMOUS
COMMUNICATION WRITTEN
ERMAN LANGTTAGE RECEIVED BY
NCINNATI ENQUIRER" PERTAINING
FLYING SAUCERS 11
SECURITY MATT"R - X
Reference is made to a letter from the Cincinnati Office date~
August 6~ 195'2 , submitting an anonymous letter in German concerning I
so- called "Flying Saucers . 11
Attached are 7 copies of a translation of this German material ~ A A ~ t ~
prepared in the Cryptanalysis- Translation Section.
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No r eply has been made by us to the August 6, 1952, ·letter .frqm
Cincinnati.
RECOMMENDATION:
That the Domestic Intelligence Division review the Cincinnati
submission and accompanying Bureau translation, for appropriate handling,
noting particularly a suggestion in the last I,,aragraph of the Cincinnati
letter to consider makif!g this informati~ available to other Governmental
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F'ly:1..ng ~aucer,
a weapon teoted in 19h41 whieh 1a probably now being produced 1n
aerie•, and at thia tiae causes a grat stir, ia av-weapon 1'bich
has a round body a1lllilar to a disk haYinu a diameter of about
48-$0 m. On the outer ring i t has about li5-SO aut.Qalatic circular
noseles which after the ignition of tho disk circulate around a
plexiglasa :;phere 1:n the cent.er in which. the ea'suri.ng and controllin1
dov:tces !or long-distance steering aro located. In the opbere is still
sufficient apace for atom bombs. llhase weapons are in Thlaeian hands
and can haw an e.ffect1ve range ot ~.3S,OOO km. ffio conatruotor ot
v-weapona FJEDEL 1n German7 atated that it concerns • typical v-weapon
on which ho hlld worked b111u1elf. I am aure t.hat tbe truth ie better
than a pamc among isnoran t people.
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To:
Dtroctor oJ' ~pecial Snvesttgattons
ThD Inspector General
Dcp,:rtocnt o.r th Atr F.orce
The f>an tcoon
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John ~oar Uoou r 1 trector
Federal Bureau o/ Inv~sttoatton
litibjec"b: C}LYIN
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co untcatton whtch
ao encloood 0ith a letter dated July 29, l958
fro
r . 3ohn Oollow y, JV Clifton Placa, Br oo lyn s.
New Yor~. r latluc to the captioned otter.
JJr . Gallow y' a letter hao bocn aoknowledo d
~nd he has bee~ 1nJome~ that thtc comt!Untco~ton ha
been furntahe6 to your o/-tioe ,tor apprDprtate ott n~t on.
·o further actton ia coritc olated th 'th te natter by
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Director, FBI
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BORDERLAND SCmtCES , RF.sEARCH ASSOCIATES
San Diego, California;
J.m.AD LAINE - Director; YAX FREEOO'J LONG - Director
Refe1..ence is made to San Diogo letter dated 8-.S-52 concerning the
captioned matter.
For the addi tional information of the Bureau, there is being trans­
mitted herewith one copy each of the follO'IT.i.ng which were made
available to me by FRANCIS OEM, who is a member of the captioned
organizations
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Mimeographed letter consisting ot four
pagoa addressed to His EKcellency, Tho
Pres ident of the tllited States .
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?,limeogl"aphed announcement consisting of
three pages entitled "For Information of
the Public - and the Sake of the Record A Synopsis of Important Data" .
Enclosure (2)
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rour letter pas tmarkecl August is, 1952,
togethe r with enclosure, has been received, and I
want to thank you for br,ngi ng thia matter t o my
attention.
Inasmuch as the oontents of your communi ­
cation do not reflect any violatton wtthtn the
jurisdiction of thia Bur sau, I am unable to comply
with your request.
I am taking the 1,berty ot forwarding a
copy oJ your letter and uour original enclosure to
the Director of Spec ial Tnuestigattons 1 The Inspector
General, Department of the Air Force, The Pentagon,
Washi ngton as, D. a., since these matters may be of
interest to that agency.
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Sinoerelu yours,
John Edga r Hoover
Director
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In view of c~rrespo•de~; 'a: •f~f~{:h-t~ a "~teady white
light" circling their .farm, his letter
i s being referred
to the u. s . Air Force branoh: vfite~~~~¥ in matters of this type.
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Jackson Minn
Aug 2, 1952
J . Edgar Hoover
Fede r al bureau of Investigation .
Washington, IJ. c.
IJear Mr Hoover:
I don ' t know if you analy2e arti cles so will
send you a sample of (something that looks like tinsel)
because my uncle found it in a pasture in a r ound pile ,
underneath of it, it looks as tho the clover was burned .
& there are 3 similar patches which are burned in a
triangle form . Last Sunday Morning the Neighbors Wife
got up to get a drink of water & happned to see a steady
white Light circling thei r farm, but didn ' t pay any
attention to it. Than Sunday morn . when my uncle went
to get the cows, he saw this stuff shining in the Sun
light. It couldn't of been dropped out of a plane as it
was loose & not in a container & the nearest road is
about a j mile from the pasture & now we are wondering
what it is . So would l ike to have you analyze it & let
me know.
Sincerely yours,

/s/ Wm Hoffmeye r

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August 20, 1952

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Jlr. John E.~ ang

1413 ~outh Vermont
Los Angeles 6, California
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Lang:

Your letter oj August 12, 1952, has been received
and I want ~ou to know that I appreciate the tnterest
prompttng 1/0U to bring you r observattona to my attention.
Inasmuch as the matter to which you refer is of
interest to the United States Air Force authortttes, I am
taking the libert1/ of ~aktng a copy oj your communication
available to The Honorable, The Se cretar y of t;he Atr Force ,
The Pentagon, Washtno ton 25, D. C.
S incerely yours,

John Edgar Ho over
Di rec ·tor

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La.et sunday rcy wife an.l I attented
showed tt4 Fl!' i !l.
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1ove i nl.) pict'L!.re .here they
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Ee.ucer.;i,it look3d like
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of li.:;ht
It ~ave rre the i rupr ea ion that there rni ht be a plsne up in the
aky r:i th a spot light er serch li..,ht that ie send down fron: the plane
and ~hen our plan es rr ak.e en affcrt t o ~o up thers to find them
they turn off the licht and there for we feel that they have nade a
fc..et ~etaway "..l!) into the sky at a very fast speed th ia . lane t:.Oee back
to its air field or to another plcce end fool the public
I f our plane on i ts ·:tay up to. find this plane ·o ... ld ,_o up
i th
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li hte turn3d off and et&y f~rr a,ay and t~. to come over tte tcp
c f this plane they would be able to catch it b'.1 t they sho-:.1.ld r:e
rrepaired tc ahoot it out if needed
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p l ane up and have them a~nd down e spot light or aerch li(3ht
to
fintl out if this ia not true
if this is cf any help it ,11 11 1,ake rre happy
I dont th i h k I am very Off
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August 5, 1952
SAO, San Diego
BORDERLAND SCIENCES, RESEARCH ASSOCIATES
San Diego, Cal1forni a; MEAD LAYNE, Director;
MAX FREEDOM LONG, Director
Izt?l-view of the current hysteria concerning the
so-called 1'-fl_y1ng saucers", I thought that the Bureau
might be interested 1n the .following in.formation concern­
ing the captioned organization .

I am transmitting herew1th certain 11terature con­
cerning the captioned organization which was furnished to
me by FRANCIS OHM, who operates the Businessmens Assurance
Company in San Diego and who has his office in the same
building housing the FBI office.
It is of interest to note that on Friday, August ,
1952, at approximately 12:00' noon, FRANCIS OHM as ked to set
me urgently, which I did. As a member of the captioned
organization, he advised me that they were having a meeting
at 1 :00 PM the same day, inasmuch as they had been advise
that they had some v~ry important information to discuss .
He went on to relate that thro ugh t he means utilized by hta
org ani zation (which the enclo sed literature will reflect
border s on the ocoult) , they were able to prognosticate
well in advance the rece~t earthquake which occurred in
Tehachapi, California . He advised that they have also
been able to obtain the fol lowing information:

1. That a very severe tidal wave will hit the
Pacific Ocean sometime in the not too remote future and
that moat of the Japanese Islands will be washed away
and disappear.
2 . That all .fishes with scales in Japanese
waters will soon leave these waters for other destina­
tions, in view of the oncoming tidal wave .

3. That this tidal wave will wash away the
Hawaiian Islands .

4. That the West Coast of the United States will
likewise be affected by this tidal wave.
5 . That they prognosticated the appearance of
a new island in the Pacific which was publ ished in the
newspapers within the past week.
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BORDERLAND SCIENCES, RESEARCH ASSOCIATES
San Di ego, California; MEAD LAYNE, Director;
MAX FREEDOM LONG, Director

6 . That the flying saucers are not fantasies; that
they are fac tual and actual; that his associates in the cap tioned
organization have been i n conversation with the men operating
the f lying saucers, end that they have asked t ha t high officials
of the u. s. Government be informed t hat they are here on our
planet on a peaceful mlssion and that they are not on a warlike
mlssion. However, if the u. s. Government continues to send
planes after these flying saucers and if these planes fire on
the flying saucers, they have disintegrators which they will
utilize and which will disintegrate these plm. es completely in
no time n at.
Mr. OHM requested tha t either I myself attend the
meeting at lrOO PM or that I designate a stenographer to attend
the meeting , s o that she could take down all the minutes of the
meeting. I tol d him that unfortunately this was very short
noti ce, that I had another commitment and that our stenographers
were pretty well occupied at that time. He s ald he would advise
me of anything important that might transpire at the meeting .
As of August 2, 19.52, he has not a dvised me of anything which
transpired at the meeting.
I should like to point out that OHM appears to be
a perfectly sane , sound i ndividual; he operates a very l arge
i nsurance business in San Di ego, and is convinced in his o-wn
mlnd of the effic acy of this organl zation.
No investig ation is b eing conducted concerning this
matter and I do not contempl ate attending any meetings of this
organi zation .

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Dear llr. Choinski:
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rour letter dated August 14, 1952, has been
received, and I want to thank you /or a/fording me the
benefit of your observations.
Inasmuch as the matter to whtch you refer
ts of interest to another governmental aJency, I am
taking tne liberty o/ /orwardtng a copv o/ v our com­
~~ntcation to the Director of Special Investigations,
Phe Inspector General, Department of the Atr Force,
The Pentagon, Kash tngton 25, D. c.
Stncerely yours,
John Edgar Hoover
Dtrector
Co p y o/ incomin g sent to the Director of Special
Investtgations, the Inspector General, Department of
the Air Force, by form letter.
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FLYI NG DISCS
August 22, 1952
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PURPOSE:
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To recommend existing ins t ructions to the /ield
re fluing discs be called to the attention o/ the
fteld .
Be!Joon t _
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1'ele. Room_
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Oe.ndy_ _
BACKGROUND:
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A review of communtcattons recetued from the
fteld indicates they are not observing existing
t nstructtons contained in Bureau Bulletin #57, para­
graph D, dat~d 10/1/47, and SAC Letter #38, dated
3/25/49, to re/e r details of complaints regarding
flying saucers to OSI locally.
ACTION:
It is recommended the attached SAC Letter
b~ issued.
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FLYING DISCS
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August 18, 1952
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Captain William Deegan, OSI, 4th Air Force
Base , Bowling Field, has requested that any information
conce r ning the sighting of flying discs {saucers , etc . )
be telephontca l ly furnished immediately to his office ,
day or night, by dia l l i ng Code 1261, and asking /o r
Extension 509 . Captain Deegan advised the Air Force
is greatly concerned about the captioned matter, and
would app r eciate the Bureau ' s c ooperation in immediately
advising of details r eceived concerning such complaints .
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FLYING DISCS -- Refer ence is made t o Bureau Bulle tin #57,
Paragraph n~ dated October 1, 1947, and SAC Letter lf:38, dat ed
Mar ch 25, 1949, in the captioned matter.

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It is noted that some Bureau field offices a r e not fur­
nishing to OSI local ly complaints regarding flying discs , pursuant
to existing Bureau instructions.
Upon recei pt of information by your office relating to
the sighting of a flying disc, you should endeavor to determine
from the complainant details of the type referr ed to in the Air
Force memorandum, which was furnished to your office as an enclosur e
to SAC Letter #38 . The information should then be promptly fur nished to OSI locally by your office. As you are aware, the investigation of so- called f l ying discs is the r esponsibility of the
Department of the Air Force .

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Office Mem(/, w,~Jum . UNITED S1'ATES GOVERNMEN T
August
JIR.
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TO

HARBO

29J 1952

DATE :

FROM

D. J,. PARSONS ,

SUBJECT:

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJEC~
ALLEGEDLY CITED BY MR. D. S~
WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA

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ESVERGERS,

Tracy_ _

Harbo_ _

By letter of Aug~st 26, 1952, the Air Force requested *~--that we examine the cap of Jlr. Des vergers, a scoutmaster
Tele. Rooa_
at West Palm. Beach, Florida, who claims th.at he obserued ~ /..
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unidentified flying object in a desolate area. He report f t? l ~ l /
that upon his investigation, a ._- object 30 feet in diam te&,,:
hovered over his head and shot a "red blob" which causedrhimt:,,t o /l_i__ · ,.
lose consciousness. The cap has some holes burned in it an d it~
is reported that the hair on Desuergers' arms was singed.
The
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Air Force requested that we determine, if possible, from any
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The Air Force desires an oral report on this tonight . ?o-,,,.,.>-d>"_«,
~e have finis hed the e xamination and are prepa r ing to advise the
Air Force as follows:

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1. There is no residue which would permit a determination
as to the nature of the material which caused the burns in the
cap. In addition to the obvious burns, there is one minute burned
area which is probably too small to have been caused intentionally
but more likely by a s•all hot ember.
2. The bill and a large part of the edges of the cap
are singed but the singeing is not uniform as would be expected
if it had been caused at one time by a single flash of flame. The
front edge of the cap bill is more severely singed than other
portions of the cap. This condition ux,uld not be expected if the
source of the flame was directly overhead .

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3. When the cap is obse r ved from the front, the left
edge of the insignia and the fold in the bl ue cloth, there is an
absence of singeing noted under the fold suggesting the possibility
that the cap was not being worn when the singeing took place.
It is noted that this fold "smooths out" when. the cap is placed
on the head.
RECOMMENDATION:
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That in response to the request , ~I Colonel Free
rlof the Air Force, i t is recommended that he be
~ t:_::lly a1'lised of the above.
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Dear ZJr. Elwell:
Your l etter postmarked September 6, 1952,
has been recetued, and I appreciate the interest
pr ompting you to l et me haue the benefi t of your
obaeruattona .
Si nce the contents of your communication
may be of interes t to other governmental agencies,
I am taking the l i berty of ~o r vc r dtn9 coptes of i t
to the Adm i nistr ato r of Ci utl Aeronautics, Ctutl
Aer onaut;i cs Administr ati on, ])epar tn.en t o/ Com.m.erce,
Washington, D. c . ., and t o The Hono r abl e, The Secretar y
of Defense, Th e Pentagon, »ashingto n, ]). c.
Sincerel y your s ,
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Office Memorandum • uNrTEn sTATEs GOVERN MEN T
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TO
Mr. A. H . BeieJ~
FROM
C. E. HennricrC
SUBJECT:
STRANGE WHITE OBJECT SEEN OVER
MONTANA ON SE~~~ER 19, 1952
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I talke~b..ASAC Plaxico of..Bu.tte on~September 20
re tbe attached news releases indicating that the FBI
:was investigating a strange white object wpich reportedly
streaked aero~~ skL_of M~ntana for about one hundred
miles • .Mr. Plaxico stated that while a report of this
object had been received at the Butte Office, that no
lPvestigation was conducted re garding the matter and that
U9ne was coritempiat~
ACTION:
For your information.
Attachment
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DIRECTOR, FBI
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10/3/52
SAC ' NEWARK (100- 36998)
SPECIAL INQUIRY
UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL OBJECTS;
Inspector General, USAF
2nd District Office ~f pecial Investigations
67 Broad Straet
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!JI .S ~ .For the information of the Bureau , on August 27 , 1952 ,
the Newark division received a request from the Inspector General ,
United States Air Force , 2nd Di strict Offic e of Soecial Investi­
gations , 67 Broad Street , New York 4 , Ne~ork , that the background of a civilian photographer , JOHN
ILEY , 571 Main Street ,
Paterson , N. J ., and of GEORGE J~~
CK , 21 Brooks Avenue , Passaic ,
N. J ., be investigated in an att'crmut to determine their reliability
in view of the fact that they had allegedly observed and photo­
graphed an unidentified aerial object on July 31, 1952 .
SUBJECT:
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The appropriate credit and criminal checks were made in
this matter as well as discreet neighborhood inquiries as to both
individuals , and no information was received that either individual
had criminal records or that they were known in the past to have
perpetrated any kind of fraud .
It was ascertained that S'l'OCK did photogreph an allegedly
unidentified aerial object and that RILEY witnessed the incident
and developed and printed the exposed film which was subsequently
forwarded to the 5th OSI District , Air Technical Intelligence
Center , Wright - Patterson Air Force Base , Ohio by Mr . CHh.RLES GHEGG ,
staff writer , "The rlerald News , Passaic , N. J . 11
The letter further requested that the photographer and
the witness be questioned as to the circumstances under which the
pnotographs were taken and that an attempt be made to locate
other sources in the area that might determine the authenticity
of the photos . No investigation of this type was made by the
Newark division .
In accordance with SAC letter #83 , Series 1952 dated
8/29/52 , the results of the credit and criminal checks and the
neighborhood investigations were forwarded to the loca l OSI
Office , New York City and no further investigations have been
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made by this office .
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THE HAGUE,

October 6th

THE NETHERLANDS

Dep1.rtmen~ cf Justice
,;,edera.1 Btrreau of Investigatio"1
Pennsylvania Avenue
WA SH INGTON
D.~.

In the care of Mr Bailey
Rm 1246

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Dear Mr Bailey,
Excuse me please if I misspelled your name , but
I never saw it in writing.
On May 5th at 2 . 15 P.M. of this year I paid you
a visit in the F.B . I.offices, where I told you details on
~ 9e_
d §.in subject yo11 will surely remember . At tpe end of
the conversation I .E,r,grn_1sse<!_ you no~ ~,2. _t~l!E, e.bo11t it un­
til _I had receive1 ..Y!.Q.,rd trorn x.,01.!., wheth~ gr po! t;he ryro per
authorities were interested. It was taken ~or granted that
a few months might elapse before the answer could be given.
Five months have :,:>asse.d by since then, and as
the subject has now become active in Euro::,e, I am really
anxious to go a,'1ead with it, I have ofco11rse tr ied to
check the theory on each aspect and while doine so I
found various complementary as well as fundamental details.
I have now reached the point however where I
would like to discuss the who7.e w'"i th an ex')ert and!
wguld ther~or cerla1nly auryr.eciate to know- whether I have
to consider O.!:!!, a_g_reernent on comolete silence~§ still
being valid and necessary or not
It migh"""t be that you are too busy to be able to
'2
write to me of that the authorities are not interested. As )
it is not my intention to bother you too much with it, i
w~ll take it that t1;_,ere is no lonBe~a.EL_~cessity for
silence on ~y part ~f I do not _!e~eiv~ any in~ot~ation to
the contraryoy the end of this month.
~y ~his proposition I do not intend to force an
issue bu.t I would like to discuss a subject like this with
scientists friends of mine , which I cannot _do as long as I
am bound b3t my promise to you.
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With very kind regards,

October 10, 1 952
AIR MAIL
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, L (\l'G0lff9 Stadhoude'rslaan
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The Netherlands
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C.J\• ji6- Mr . Eekhout :
Your letter dated October 6 , 1952, has been
received .
You will per haps r ecall being advised at the
time of your visit to this Bureau that the matter discussed
was not within the jurisdiction of the FBI. Howeve r, in
view of your imminent depar ture from ~ashington the infor­
mat ion was accepted fo r trans mittal to the appropriate
agency, which was to contact you if interested.
Full details we r e made available at that time to
the Department of the Ai r Force for evaluation and consider­
ation . In the absence of some arrangement between you and
the Air Force, your further use of t he pertinent facts is ,
of course, a matter fo r your own determination.
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John Edga r Hoover
Director
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furnished by Eekhout to the Bureau 5- 5- 52 concer ning his ideas
as to plans .for a workable flying disc . Eekhout was informed
t hat .further contact with him, if any, would come from the
interested Government agency rather than the Rureau . No mention
was made of his keeping the facts secre-t pending a reply from
the Bureau or the Air Force . {62- 83894-273)
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H E AOQUARTERS UN ITEO STATES A I R FORCE
WAS HINGTON 25, 0. C.
30 September 1952
MEMORANDUM FOR:
SUBJECT:
1.
MR. ~
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Connnents on Article in The NEW YORKER
A call was made to the Air Technical Intelligence Center,
1330 this date, (Captain Ruppelt) regarding the attached article.
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2 . ATIC did not in any way indicate 1.o Mr. Lang_ that the
FBI has an interest in flying saucers. Furthermore, Captain
Ruppelt stated that the FBI to his knowledge has never been called
upon to furnish reports on<l'lying saucers. ATIC is under the
impression that Mr. Lang made the atofyup or picked it up from
a magazine or newspaper article sometime back that definitely
was not associated with their organization.
3. AfIC suggests that you check further with Mr. Al Chop,
Office of Public Information, and perhaps he can supply you with
the information you have requested.
1 Incl:
Article fr NEW YORKER,
dtd Sept 6, 1952
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
OFFICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION

W AS HINGTON ZS, D . C.

The follow::f.ng infoniat1on concerning A1r Force 1nvest1gat1ons of unusual
aerial phenomena 1a submitted 1n answer to your request.
In the Fall of 19, 7 tho U'lited States Air Force took official notice of
reports of eo--call ed "f lying sauee1"8'1 because t he reports from the public
indicated t hat the problem might be related to the Air Force responsibility for
the air defense of t.be lbited Stat.es.

On December ;o, 19"7 t.ho AJ.r Foree d.:treoted its Air Materiel Command., a.t
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base~ Dayton~ Ohio, to set up a project 'to collect and
evaluate all available facto coneerning "fl.yi.n g saucer" sighti.ngB.
To perform this task the Air Ma~r14ll Cczmnantl obtained the services of
civilian and military aatronOIQfrs, psycholo~ate~ electronic specialists,
meteorologists, aeronautical engineers., and ~hyeiciste.
~ December 27, 1949, after 375 reported a1gllt.izl&3 had been tnvestiaated, the
Air Force, with the concurrence of' the Arm:I and the Navy, announced the findings

of the "fl.ying saucer" project.
The evidence at that time ind!cated that the majority of the reports of
unidentified flying objects could be accoWlt~d for aa misinterpretationa of
"farious conventional objects, a mild fonn of byateria, meteorologioal phenomena,
11~ aberrations, or hoaxes.
There r emained, hov~er , a number of unexplo.inad eightings., and the Air
Force has continued it.8 1nveet1ga.t1ona i:nrumnich as it is an A1r Force responsi­
bility to identify and anal.yze aerial phenomena that could poesibl.J be a menace
to the United States.
Subsequent to December 19li-9, these investigations have been conducted aa
a normal intelligence function, :-ather than a special project, by the Air
Technical Intelligence Center, Wright-Fatterson Air Force :Base, l>ayton, Ohio.

To date, the Air Force has undertaken to investigate and analyze .ab~ut
1500 reports dealing with these phenomena. AB before, most of the reports were
identified and disposed of as friendly aircraft erroneously reported, known
electronic and meteorological phenomena, light aberrations, hoaxes, and other
lmown natural occurrences or man-made objects.
The unexplained reports, however, which are in the order of 20 percent of
the total, cannot be definitely associated with these familiar things.
Difficulty in Evaluating Reports
The difficulty in disposing of these unexplained reports is based largely
upon the insufficiency of accurate basic data such as size, shape, composition
and flight characteristics (speed, acceleration, altitude, exact maneuver pattern,
etc.) of the objects.
Although some instruments which are useful in obtaining more accurate data
of this type have been available, the reports baaed on sightings with these
instruments have been very infrequent and comprise an extremely small percentage
of the total. Moreover, even these reports have not included much of the
information required.
Because of the inadequacy of this basic data, the Air Force has in the past
devoted its efforts primarily to determining whether these unexplained sightings
indicated the existence of a menace to the United States. Initially it was
believed that some pattern might evolve from tho study of a large volume of
reports. To date, no pattern has materialized to reveal anything whatsoever
which can be interpreted as indicative of purpose or consistency or which can be
construed as a menace to the United States. Nonetheless, since these unexplained
sightings persist, the Air Force will continue its investigations, giving the
problem adequate but not frantic attention.
It is now felt, however, that reports from people whose training and
experience in observing aerial objects qualify them to obtain essential data
are the only ones likely to produce material suitable for systematic analysis .
The Air Force is planning to provide additional tools to help these observers
obtain the basic data it needs.
Reports of similar phenomena go back to Biblical times. There have boen
flurries of them in various centuries. The current series of sightings began
generally in 1946.
-There are many reasons why the volume of these reports has increased
materially during the past few years. Aerial activity originated by man ha.s
increased, and people today have a greater curiosity about this activity than
before. Also, our present efficient connnunication facilities and news media
provide an incentive for reporting unusual observations, for publicizing them
and for recording them. However, the ability to measure these phenomena does
not seem to have advanced in step with opportunities for observing them. Tho
Air Force believes that moat of these phenomena will gradually be understood .
as more 1~ lmown about occurrences in the upper atmosphere.

Source of Reports
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The majority of reports of aerial phonomena havo come from civilians . About
8 percent come from. civil airlines pilots, whilo approximately 25 percent are
reported by military personnel. Reports have boen rec eived also from highly
qualified scientists, Although primary significance is attached to reports from
qualified observers, there is no intention to discredit untrained observers.
Radar Sightings
The Air Force has r eceived many r eports of unusual images on radar scopes.
It is fairly well established that some of these images are ground objects
reflected from a layer of warm air above the earth (a temperature inversion) .
Temperature inver sion r eflections can give a r eturn on a radar scope that
is as sharp as that received f rom an aircraft , Speed ranges of theso r eturns
are reportedly from zero to fantastic speeds . The "objects" also appear to move
in all directions,
Such radar sightings have resulted in hundreds of fruitless inter cept
efforts.
One scientific theory holds that light can bo similarly reflected from a
layer of warm air above the earth and, if proven to be correct, this could
account for some visual sightings.
Bearing out the theory of temperature inversion reflection is o.n incident
which occurred in January 1951 near Oakridge, Tennoesoo. Two Air Force aircr aft
attempted to intercept an unidentified "object" and actually established a radar
'~lock" on tho object, Their altitude at the time was 7 ,000 feet . The unidentifiel
object, according to their radar, appoarod to be at an elevati on of ton to 25
degrees , Three pusses were made in an attempt t o clooe on the ob ject. In ouch
instance the pilots reported that their radar l ed thom first upward and then
down toward a specific point on the ground.
Ionized clouds ar e believed to be the causo of some unidontifiod radar
retu;rns , Thunderstorm activity is identifiable by radar, o.nd radar is used for
the purpose of avoiding thunderstorms, In addition, r adar has picked up many
objects first reported as "unidentified phenomena" which were later identified
as aircraft, birds, balloons, ice formations in tho a ir, or other known aerial
obJocts or manifestations.
Policy Regarding Attempted Interc eption
No orders have been ~seued by the Air Defense Commo.nd t o its fighter unite
to fire on unidentified aerial phenomena, The Air Defense Command is charged
with air defense of the United States, and its mission is to attack anything
airborne which io m,wn or oppooro to be boot1le. Thio ctioul.i oot bo i nt-Orproted
to goon toot o~ piloto will nro hnpbnBOl'Oly on nnyth1nc t,hat flies.
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Attempts at interception are not made every time that unidontified ilI]tlges •
appear briefly on an Air Force radar-scope. Current Air Force interceptors are
short-range, short-duration, high-speed aircraft and can be employed most
effectively when it is poaeiblo to track a target by visual or radar means
oo that its position in the air at some futuro time may be predicted with a
reasonable degree of accuracy.
Methods of Evnluating
The first step in evaluating sightings of unusual aerial phenomona is to
collect all available data and check it against known airborne objects such as
balloons, aircraft, missiles, meteors, and weathor phenomena. If still unexplained,
reports from reliable sources, with sufficient details, are turned overt~
specialists in various scientific fields for further analysis.

As stated earlier, there is a need for better reports from trained observers
using adequate equipment. The Air Force intends to implement its present study
with instruments wherever possible.
The recent development of special photographic equipment may make it possible
to gather data hitherto unobtainable through ordinary photographic methods. This
equipment consists of a diffraction grating camera which separates light into its
component parts (spectrum) o.nd registers them on film. Tho principle involved is
that used by astronomers in determining the composition of tho stars. In this
manner Air Force scientists may b0 able to determine the characteristics of the
phenomena and subsequently identify the source.
Another proposal involves the use of a continuously operating Schmidt
telescope equipped with a camera. Thie telescope has a wide aperture lens and
is capable of covering a cone of 150 degrees or nearly tho whole sky from horizon
to horizon. This equipment will make it possible to get on a series of photo­
graphic plates a complete record of what happens in the sky at night.
What 11 Saucers" Are Not
The Air Force has st~ted in tho past, and reaffirms at tho present time, that
these unidentified aerial phenomena are not a secret weapon, missile or aircraft,
developed by the United States. None of the three military departments nor any
other agency in the government is conducting experiments, classified or otherwise,
with flying objects which could be a basis for the reported phenomena. As far as
is known there is nothing in them tho.tis associated with me.terial or vehicles
that are directed against the United States, from another country or from other
planets .
Your interest in this matter is greatly appreciated, Please call upon us if
we may be of further service.
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N mid ummer of 19+7, the cd
SOMETHING IN THE SKY erat of the Air ~1atericl Command,
States Air Force, already concerned
and its h.1se was, and is, at \ Vr:~ht FieIll,
with such prohlem~ ;'I.:, the develop- i1H'estigation there was certain!} no DaJton, Ohio. The project's ta,k turned
ment of guided mi,siles and supersonic harm in assuminz for the moment that out to in\'olve a mixture of old-fashioned
craft, the n,..,;in3 up of radar nctworh, the era of inte;planetar} tra\·el l_1ad detection, scientific analpi,, puhlic rela­
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and its controvers} with the a\'} over arrived and the earth had bernmc tions, and the stud} of a widespread
unification, found tself confronted h\ an ohjective for journeys from el,e- state of mind. In Dccemher, 19+9,
another, and complctel} different, head~ where in the solar S}'Stem. Or -and this after checking, over :1 period of two
a~he-tht II) ing ,aucer. People in everr would not neces,;arily exclude the first years, three hundred and se\·enty-fi\'e
<.ectlon ot t e c1 unti, were ,eein~ two consideranons-the Air I orce may report:, of intruder-. m the sk}, the .-\1r
strange objects that streaked across the have hecn setting up a smoke screen to Force publicly called it quits, hut Project
sk} at tremendou~ speed,, and while protect, in the interest of national '-l:CU- Saucer was not actual!} dish. ndnl. :--.a­
these people, who included such prac- rity, the secret of some experimental fly- tional sernrity, the Arr Force announcecl
ticed students of the heavens as air- ing ohjects of its own that uni} a tru,tcd at the time, was not endangered. The
plane pilots, farmer,, and the Lieutenant few of its mcmhers knnv ahcn1t. \\"hat- R) mg s. ucers were apparmons, t said,
GO\ ernor of Idaho, were not ahle to ever the purpo~e, the investigation, with all attrihutahle either to a failure to
identify the things they had seen, they which I ha\·e heen in touch from time recognize conventional ohjelt~, to
wc.-re able to descrihe them \·ividly and to time, ha-. seeminc.d} heen cxhausti\'e. hoaxes, or ro a mild form of ma,~ hy,­
unforg-ettahly. The newspapers called The Air Force personnel originally tcria. The Air Force, however, did not
the fir~t of these mysterrous objects a assi;?ned to it \\'a, later au..!mented hy let the m:mer rest there.
fl} in~ saucer, taking their cue from the astronomer,, psycholo(!'.ists, physicists,
1
ot long after the apparent demise
man who reported having seen n and meteorologists, physicians, and repre­ of Projen Saucer, I had a talk in \\' a,h­
who descrihed it as 5:tuct•rlike, and the sentatives of the F.B. J. The investit!'.a­ in(!'ton wnh Bn;!:adicr General trnest
name stuck, althou,!h later people re- tion, which soon hecame popularly ,\1oore, then cl;icf of A,r Force In­
ported seeing thin!;!, that looked like fl)- known as Project Saucer, was first telligence, in the course of which he
ing chromium huhcaps, flying dime,, headed hr Lieutell.lnt Gent'ral Benja­
m.1de four catc .i:orical ~tatemcnt$ that
ff}ing teardrop,,, fl) ing ~aslicihb, flrin~ mm \V. Chidlaw, Commandin!! G en­ I felt sure he had made man} times he·--~-l·ream C'0nes, and fl) ing pre plates.
A~ more and more rurious thin..!s were
..e~n '.n the kie , cautiously qu,✓.zical
cd1tonals began to :1ppear in the paper~,
and the President and members <It Congress received a deluge of letters demanding _an explanation. \1an) of the
letter wncer:. had C'oncluded that the
objects, whatever they might ht·, were
manned h) Russian,, and that • :. soon
as their pilob had reconnoitred ,ufficiently, they would return loaded with
atomic bomhs. Others thou..!ht the eanh
was heing visited h) spaC'c ship, from
another planet. Still other, suspected
tha~ our own .-\ir Force was secretly
Clipoed from The Nim YORK,_..R
testrng some new form of aircraft.
Septem~er 6, 1952
Everyone agreed, however, that it
pages M through 82
was up to the Arr Force, as the cus­
to~1an o~ our welkin, to expla111 the
Ryrng <>hJects and, if neces.sary, to repel
them. The result was the launchinnhy the Air Force, on January 22 1948
o_f a special i1l\'estigation, an im\•,ti:ra:
aon that, though it has reached 11111nerous con clusions, is still under way
and has yet to put the puhl,c mmd at
rest.
It appears th~t, aside from the hope
of reas,urmJ .1 Jitter} populace, the Air
Fo'.·ce, in embarking upon this under­
~krn(!', had ani or all of three thrn.zs
Ill mrnd. It may well have shared the
civili.rn C~>ncen: over what, if an} thin:r,
the Russians m1~ht ha\·e to do with the
reported phenomena, and it may even
han~ felt that to frisure a thorou.,.h,,0111 ,,
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fore. '7:L. off," hes:
Russians
have nothing to do
so-called .of Idabo, disclosed that . . \if": he
had seen a comet-shaped uojec, l1ling
saucers· I'll swear t(. "'"'
1 a stack of
over
the western p.:trt of the state. It
Bibles,' if you like. Sec ond, we. don't
have any secret new t)"I' -es of aircraft finally dipped below the horizon, he
that could have started all 1 ~his commo­ said. (Later on, the personnel of Proj­
tion. Third, nobody, in ourc .pinion, has ect Saucer decided that the Lieutenant
spotted space ships fro~ s ome_ othe_r G overnor had been looking at either
planet. Fourth, everything our investl­ Saturn or Mercury.) Four cops in P ort­
o-ators learned has been made available land, Oregon, saw a group of discs
0
"wobbling, disappearing, and reappear­
to the pu bl.1c."
ing."
Reports of other phenomena having
HE first saucer iro,cident occurred
been
seen in the skies appeared in the
on the afternQ<''n of J une 24, 1947,
papers
almost daily. Two Army officers
when Kenneth Ar,nold, on a business
trip for a Boise, Idatho, firm that makes at Fort Richardson, Alaska, reported
seeing a spherical object flying through
1 fire-control equipr ent, was flying his
p..,~.i\'C•., .roe from ' .:::h~halis, vVashing­ the air at incredible speed and leav­
ton to Yakima, \~ /ashmgton. The re­ ing no vapor trail; some fishermen off
fle;tion of a brigt 1 t fl ash on one wing Newfoundland saw a series of aerial
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caught his eye. J- . l e turned and, at a flashes, silver to reddish in color; a lady
distance he tho ught was about twenty in Oregon watched a group of saucers
miles saw what he took to be nine tail­ spell out "P-E-P-S-r," and alerted her
less ~ircraft hr ,ading toward Mount neighbors to the presence of foreign
Rainier «T ._ _could see their outli~es quite agents practicing a secret code in our
\ : .•only against the snow," Air Force skies; an Oklahoma City man saw a
Intelligence quoted him as saying. saucer "the bulk of six B-29s;" and
"They flew very close to the mountain­ a prospector in the Cascade Moun­
tops, directly south to southeast, down tains of Oregon saw six saucers in a
the hog's-back of the range, flying like group, banking in the sun-"round,
geese, in a diagonal, chainlike line, as silent, and not flying in formation ." On
if they were linked together ... a chain the Fourth of July, there were twelve
of saucerlike things at least five miles reports of saucers in widely separated
long, swerving in and out of the high parts of the United States. One of
mountain peaks. They were flat ... and these saucers, sighted at Trenton, New
Jersey, was traced to a
so shiny that they reflected
fireworks
display. Dr. Paul
the sun like a mirror." Ar­
Fitts, an Ohio State Uni­
nold said he watched the
versity psychologist who
saucers for three minutes
was for a time attached to
and estimated their speed at
Project Saucer, considered
ahout twelve hundred miles
this crowded condition in
an hour.
the holiday skies the result
Air Force technicians,
of mass suggestibility, the
consulted by newspapersame jumpy trait that
• men, said that any object
caused Americans to see
moving that fast would be
Zeppelins overhead during
invisible to the nakeo eye at
and after the First '\Vorld
Arnold's estimated distance.
War. "Our graphs ~how
The press scoffed at Ar­
that saucer incidents al­
nold's story, and he was re­
w ays increase dramatically
sentful. "Even if I see a
after publicity," he has
ten-story building flying
since told me. "The sky,
through the air, I won't
you know, has been a
say a word about it," he de­
source of exciting visions
clared, and when he got
hack to Boise he wrote a series of ar­ from time immemorial, and its attrac­
ticles about his experience for a mag­ tion is particularly strong in our jittery
moments."
azine called Fate.
No sooner were the skeptical news­
ROM the beginning, the officers in
paper accounts printed than dozens of
charge of Project Saucer recognized
people turned up with similar re­
ports. Another resident of Boise spotted a peculiar difficulty in their assignment.
a disc over that city, "a half circle in "H you look out the window and see
shape, clinging to a cloud and just as something, how can I prove or disprove
bright and silvery-looking as a mirror what it was if I didn't see it and you
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saw? " Major
·e ~ ~gs, who was
then the chief - 3<1. 1ficer between
, v r ight Field and tl. 1igh command
in \ Vashington, said to me one day
shortly after Project Saucer had pre­
sumably become a thing of the past.
" It would be different if flying sau­
cers were known to exist. Then we
could have collected evidence indi­
cating the degrees of probability that
such things were sighted and the reaso11
for their appearance at a given place.
But it is impossible to prove, logically
and with finality, a double negative­
that is, that there arc no flying saucers
and that people have not seen flying sau­
cers. The best we could do under the
cir cumstances was to deduce, first, from
Complete
Model the fact that it had not been proved, that
phonograph,
45EY2,
AC. "Golden Throat"
$34.95 saucers had been seen and, second,
lone system.
(suggested list price) from the fact that r easonable theories
• Plays up to 14 records at one loading
could be advanced to explain away all
• The only reco rd a.nd changer designed
the re ports of seeing them, that probably
for each other
nobody had seen them at all. The
• Records change from the center-the
fewer the theoretical explanations and
modern way
the less plausible they were, the more
• focludes $6 worth of RCA Victor a].
bums a(no extra charge.
reason there was fo r suspecting people
had seen saucers." The Major shook
Other " Vic trola" 45 record changers
as low as $16.75.
his head, and continued, " I t's a difficult
concept to grasp, but so was the job we
R(;A
were tackling."
I asked Major Boggs whether ther e
~ ~ ti
was any way to account for the epidemic
Tmks. ® DivUioo of &dio Corporation of America
of reports of strange celestial objects.
LOVELY TO LIGHT BY .
"Of course there is," he replied. "If
you look up at the sky long enough, you
A cande la brum of
can almost always make out something
Ita lian wrouaht
there that appears strange. And more
Iron In atylized
flower and leaf
people are looking up now than ever
desion n t off by
delicate. scr oll•
before. Kids don't count freight cars
work and finished
any more; they count airplanes. People
in silvery black
for dramatic
who were trained in air observation
contra.st with
during
the war have gone right on
white u...ndlH.
Height 9\12",
observing.
Also, the public hasn't for­
8" across. $7.50
gotten that the atomic bomb was kept
Postage .SO.
welt of Miss..75
secret from it for three years. T his
No c .o . D. 's pleue.
o oen S atur day 9 .5 time, people want to know what's cooking, so they look up." Major Boggs
HOUSE OF ITALIAN HANDICRAFTS sighed . " T ime was when people used
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to make a wish if they saw a shoot­
ing star. Now they telephone the Air
Force."
Major Boggs and I pondered t his
unromantic age in silence for a moment.
T hen he returned briskly to the prob­
lems that had confronted the investi­
gators. "The one tangible thing we had
to work on was the fact that the sky is
full of things," he said. "I can't even
come close to estimating the number of
commer cial and m ilitary aircraft up
1
there a t any given moment. T hen, there
are more than fi ve hundred outfi ts of
one kind or another that release balloons
At leading f urniture ond deportmen t stores.
Send 3-cent ,tomp to Dept. N for booklet.
from time to time. These range from
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in ~hl' way it <li,1pp-A:.&1 thl· lme
of,i!!ht.
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H·cre, the expert,- profc,,ed to hope,
\\ a, ,omethinf! Proje(t ·~ 1c -r, ,.ild ,..et
ii... teeth into. T he whole fhing-saucer
m~ ,ttT} mi;ht he e,plained: The fir:.t
,1ep wa, tu determine whether thl b­
jcct wa, an aircraft that had been par­
tialh· oh,cured b\· a cl. u<l , r wh, -.e
.1p~arance had !ie'en <li,torted by a r:iin­
Morm. T \\ o hundred ,1nd twenl)-five
<. nlian and militan tli:!ht <cheduk""
were analrzc:d, and· ,t was found tliat
one other· plan~, an .-\ir Force C-{ i,
had been near the Eastern airliner at
the time the nt} ,teriou:, object \\,I!>
,i!!hted. Conjecture about tlte C-4i
hqran to appear irrele, anr, however,
when the .\lac, n ground ere.: \ h ."reed
with Ch le, and \ \ 'hitted th1t the thing
the_1 h.ul -..een \\,I!> .!oin6 much fa,ter
than two hundrc:<l mile, an hour, tn<l
,o, . unlc:,, it dawdled around .,ome­
wherc, woul<ln 't han: taken "n, thin,!
like an hour to get from \Iacon to
:\Iont,..omeq .
•·\...tro111 ~tr-. went to work on the
problem. Dr. H rnck considered the
po-...ihilit) that a brilliant, ,low-m, , inJ
rmtl1 r mi:!ht he the explanation. Vari­
Cllh hih of the apparition\ de,cnption
ent·11ur.1.!cd thi, notion-"oran.!C-red
tla1m:," :'ci~ar-,hapcd," "a tremendous
hur-.1 of flame.'' U nfc rtun.m:-1}, th
lli~ht ••<.'hedulc,, of meteor, are not avail­
:,hle, and D r. H } nek had no mean,, ot
1c:,1in:! hi, h)pothe,i,. "It will ha,e to
he ldt to the P"} chologi:.h to tc.:11 u~
\\ hcthci- the imrncdi; tc trail ' - bri,.ht
mtte"r could produce the subjecuve im­
prc-..., ,n of a ,hip \ \;th 11,..hteJ w 1n­
<l11\\',-," he \\ rote in a report on his
finding,. Th'- p-,_1 chologi,,t exprc:..-.cd
the opinion th t ·1 m tc >r c ,uld n Iced
l•e m;,t;1kcn for a ,pace ,hip. Dr. Fitts,
the Oh, St.,t P-.) '- 'to ,Ji,t, .:,-e ·,cd
that hoth Ch 'le, ;1nd \ Vhitted were
human ~nd therdort ,1,, I kel} co he
, icrim, I m.,,s ,ue!!e,.tibilirr a, anvone cl"-". D r. F111,~;ol<l me <luring a
t.1lk I h.1J \\ 1h him that p-;1·cholo;?:·,ts
are u-,cd to 1he fact that eve,; peopl~ of
h;gh mt·nt.11 calibre often mah mi,,­
t:i~e, about what thc1· see. ".-\).., , I
\\ ,,uld like to make th~ point that pilots
are trained to in,trument,," he: iJ.
" T l1ey gnm n·ry dependent on tho~
•- rrument,, :iml I don't know whether
re ncce,-,1nly ,upt ri ,r h.., ners
out them. I <lo know that durrng
L •.: war, when I \\ a, in tht .-\ ·r F Jrcc,
pilot,- frt·qm·ntl) ga~-e ~ me pretty 1 ,dd
rcporh of what the) 'd ,-.cen while fl)­
in!! their mi.....ion,-. '' Ch le, and \ \'hitted
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ir S .. rout ne patrol for ti• ~ or:l;) ,1_
k< ta :-..ar onal Guard, and
ju
;ccd
the t, \\·er at the Fargo .\lunicip:tl Air­
port for de.1rance to Luid when he •,aw

what x-emcd 10 he another plane.-\ tail­
light a thousand _rard, a war. He queried
the 10,,cr, and the men there rep.>ned
that the onh othu ,·rcraft o,·er the fidd
\I.«::, a Pipe/Cuh. G ,rman could :-.ee the
Cui, plainh utlined below him. Curi­
ou,, he flew toward the light. " It wa::,
ah. ur ,ix to ci:!ht inche, in diameter,
dear,, hire, and complerelr r ,ond, with
a ~rt of fu77 at the edge-.,'' G11rman
later told ill\·e,tigaror,, adding that he
'1W ''no outl:ne , ,f :in} thin~" around
the t.:dge,. " It wa, blinking on and off.
•h I approached, ho\\ e,·er, the light ,ud­
denlJ became ,re:idr and pulled into
a ,harp left hank. . . . I dh·ed after it
and hrou;!ht my m.1nifold pre ure up
HIGHBOY DESI( in genuine
to ,iMr inche,, bur I couldn't catch up
SOLID mahogany from 1he Sru
with the thing. It ~tarted ~inin~ alti­
Arli•8fo11 Group b>· Kling. A
tude and a.?ain made a left bank. I put
distincti,e addirio n ro an,• roorn.
At leading srore~.
•
mJ F-5 I into a ~harp rurn and tried
to cut the li!!ht off in it, turn. Br then,
f°ull ccofor hooU.-t, , ·our Brei.
,,e were at about ~\·en thou-and feet.
rooe aoJ You·· conuiins h.-lp(ul
1u,tacs,ioo1 on cbc c-are of fur-..
Suddenly it made :i ,harp right turn
a.,.~ anJ brtlroom dttor:atioo
.1nd \\·t· headed '-trai~ht at each other.
and •rrancrm.-n, . Sc-nd 2,, ,n
coio to Khng fanories, O.Cpc. ) '9,
i\lay"lJ.lC', N. Y.
JU::>t when we were~ about to collide,
I ~Ul"::, I Jot scared. I went into a drve
"lJNG ML\.~s ~\~
and the li~ht pa~scd on•r mr canopy at
about fi\"e hundred feet. T hen it made
.; left cirde about a thou'1nd feet abo\"e,
..nd I :!a ,·e cha:,e again." Gorman fol­
lowed the li;!ht up to fourteen thou::,..1nd
ftet, where, after another near colli,ion,
hi:, :.hip went into a power ,talJ and the
li;;ht di-..1ppeared to the nonhwe:.t.
Gorman noticed no "Jund, or exhau t­
trail odor:,. He had gunned his plane
up to four hundred mile, an hour with11ut gaining on tht· liiht. I t ,,·:h able to
maint.1in an l'Xtrcmdy ,teep an,;le of
a~:em, far :?rearer than that of hi, A.ir
F ,rce fi.;hr~r. " \\'hen 1 ~ttempted to
turn \\ ith [the li~ht J, I blacked our
temporarily, due to exce...,.fre ,peed," he
:.aid. " I am in fairly good phJ-ical condi­
tion and I do not bclie,·e there are many,
jf an}, pilot., who could with,tand the
turn and ,peed effected hr th:ir li;ht and
retn.J.in conxiou . "

Projen Saucer ~u,pcctcd th.u G ,r­
m..n wa::, nlting witl1 a Wt:ith.-r h.;Jlvvn.
For one thing, it learned tliat the f'ar o
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Weatht.:r !L1tion had relea,-ed a lighted
balloon onlr ten minute,, before Gor­
man':, patrol ,topped being routine.
The ohjeer'!> steadr, practit"allJ , c rtical
climb sugge~tcd the beha\ ior of a bal­
loon. A technrc1an ,, h1, once ,~orkecl on
Project Saucer t,,!c.f me recently that
chasing a weather balloon with an arr­
plane 1s comparable to dr\ rng to the
bottom of a pool after a hollow rubber

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, find to
,vri!!ht Field, where it wns 1<lent1fied a~
a remnant of one of the incendiary bal­
loons the hopeful Japanese dispatched
across the Pac:rfic during the war in an
effort to start forest fires.
Even pictures taken o[ supposed snu­
cers failed to impress the experts. There
was the case of a man in Phoenix,
.r\rizona, who spotted a flat gray oh­
ject spiralling up and down 111 the sky
at a speed thnt he estimated at between
four and five hundred miles an hour.
Ile snapped two pictures of it with his
Brownie. Prints were rushed to Project
Saucer, and Dr. Irving Langmuir, the
ph} sicist and a obel Prize winner, was
asked to study them. The distingm..,hed
scientist learned that a thunderstorm
had occurred just before the picturc­
taking, and concluded that he w:is look­
ing at a couple of rather poor ~hots
of a piece of paper being buffeted hy
the wind.

A S time went on and the skies, appar­

.fl. ently, continued to teem with fly­
ing saucers, the generals in the Penta­
gon, warming to their rnc;k, decided to
enlarge the scope of the invcstig:ition.
Commanders of all Air F orce in~talla­
rions in the country were ordered to
as,ign Intelligence officers to look into
sightings reported in their areas. The
officers were instructed to <;0licit the as­
sistance of municipal police officials, who Thi, cozy collon "pillow" for
might he familiar with the pcrc;onalities your body cooxe, ,weel ,leep
from herd mollreut• ond in•
of the saucer ob5ervers. The F.B.I. was ferior bed,. Speciol boon to
al'-0 called upon for assistance, and as­ involid, ond oged. Eo,y lo corry
ond ,un. S17.9S in blue-&•
signed agents to help interview people oul
while ACA, S 19.95 in ro,e, blue
who reported that they had seen discs. or grHn domo,k, full or lwin
The agents uc;cd a stand:1rd question­ 1i•••• ,hipping chorge• prepoid. Ab
•oltJr• So,;,
naire, drawn up by Air Force Intelli­ Immediate shipmenl Guoront••d loction
gence, which called for such informa­
Sell Sl e
tion as the saucer's size, speed, color, DIRECT MATTRESS CO. "W•frudrmork
and maneuvers. The information wa'l
usually transmitted to ,vright Field,
but some stories were so obviously
false and some "evidence" so obvious­
ly trifling that the F.B.I. men didn't
even bother to fill out the question­
naire. In Seattle, for instance, an
alarmed woman called the police to in­
form them that a flarnin~ d,~c had land­
ed on her roof. The object turned out
to be a hollow, drum-~hape<l affair
made of pl} wood, with "USSR" crude­ ,n New Yor.:
Iv dauhed on it in paint. \n F.B.I. man C.,ty 01 Peri,
found that a turpentine-c;oaked cloth 11'1 Son Fronc,,co,
had c1used the flame. A pr:ictical jnkc., Phelps l or•o
he decided. . \ farmer near Danforth, • los Argelesi
lllinois, reported that a s.-iuc r had
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were studied by such men as Dr. George
Valley, a nuclear physicist at the Massa­
chusetts Institute of T echnology; staff
members of the research firm of Rand
Corporation; an assortment of physicists
and aerodynamicists who specialize in
the study of the stra tosphere and the
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perts attached to the Cambridge Field
t'
Station. T hese men were all searching
for physical rather than psychological
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theories occurred to them-the possibil­
ity that extraterrestrial animals were
Aying into our atmosphere, for example.
l
( o data turned up to support that ar­
resting idea.) The theory that the sau­
cers were hostile aircraft was carefully
studied and rejected. "The perform­
ances of these saucers not only surpass
the development of present science but
the development of present fiction-sci­
ence writers," one scientist noted. The
specialists also considered and rejected
the concept of discs capable of riding the
air on beams or rays of some kind. They
even speculated on whether the anti­
gravity shield that H. G. \Velis thought
up for his novel "The First Men in the
Moon" would work; it wouldn't, they
decided. T he supposition that interplan­
etnry craft were whizzing in at us was
also discredited, despite its popularity
with laymen. Space ships, the scientists
thought, would have to be so large and
un wieldy that they couldn't possibly zig­
zag as frivolously as the reported saucers
did. Besides, a space ship, regardless of its
size, could not, in the opinion of these
men, carry sufficient fuel to remain for
any length of time in the earth's dense
atmosphere. The scientists noted, too,
that the supposed spacemen showed a re­
markable lack of interest in the rest of
the world, being, it would seem, almost
unanimous in their desire to see A merica
first. "The small area covered by the
disc barrage points strongly to the belief
that the flying objects are of earthly
origin, be they physical or psycholog­
ical," one of the scientists reported.
From the report turned in by the
astronomers, I learned that they, in ad­
dition to seining out comets, meteors,
bolides, and achondrites from the
stream of objects people were seeing in
the skies, had also thoughtfully con­
sidered our planetary neighbors. The
old question of the possibility of life on
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Mars took on a new urgency, and a new
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give 1,1e may be mad1• : 1 t their
amcs nc\"er will be." ~ n . case,,
Captain Ruppelt said, in\"estigation
'las ~hown that the people he has inter­
viewed had been deceived by thing,
that have been decei\"lng others all
;dong-balloons, planes, meteor:;, and
,o on-but a nettling residue of around
twenty per cent of the ca-.e, ha\'e wound
up in that exasperating old pigeonhole
labelled "Unidcntific.:d." X othing, for
l'\ample, could be fou nd to account
tor the ''...omuhing sih-er} directl}
overhead" reported by a mystified Civil
•\ eronautics Administra tion inspector at
T erre H aute. A commercial pilot who,
tlring near Ba ttle C reek, l\,Jich1gan,
•potted " an O\"al-shaped ,il\'er object"
,thead of his ship, po~ed a simila rly un­
<;<>lved problem, as did a highly respected
naval officer, stationed a t the dirigible
ba,;e a t L akehurst, New J ersey, who re­
ported that he had stared through his
binoculars a t a brilliant image making
turns tha t were far too tight for an}
known aircraft.
Twenty-five per cent of the observ­
cn, interrogated by the Aerial P henom­
ena Officer in the last two and a half
} ears have been milita ry pilots. E ight
per cent have been commercial pilots,
,om e with as much as twenty yea rs' ex­
perience in the air, and at one stage in
the current phase o f the investigation,
nen a few physicists at L os Alamos,
'\Tew M exico, men who make a feti~h
of objecti\·ity, were interviewed after
they reported ha\ ing seen puzzling
li~hts hovering above their ato mic­
energy laboratorie:-. " If you took
any one of these inciden ts by itself,
it might not mean much," Captain
Ruppclt said. " But in view of the
number and calibre of the informants,
rou couldn't help ta king their cla11n s
'"nou~I r."
In February, 195 1, D r.
L1ddel, a nuclear physicist attached to
the Office of l\'a\"al Research, at '\Va,h­
ington, D.C ., declared that at last,
"thank~ to the lifting of certain --ecurity
rc~trict1011s, he could provide the solution
to che mptcr} of the lh 1nJ ,·mcc.:rs:
T hey were ''sk} hooks," he said-hal­
l ins a hundred feet ·11 diameter, wluch
the Navy had secretly been sendin~ up
for the pa,t four years in order to
study cosmic rap. D r. L iddel's ru-,cr­
rion w:i~ immediately disputed hr D r .
.-\nthon} 0 . \ Iirarchi, who, a:; f. rmcr
head of the Air F orce's A tmospheric
Compo<t1on Bure.tu, h td a~,1sted m the
diagnosis of Project Saucer reports. D r.
,\Iir re-hi sa'd he the ught the ~:rnccn,
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bri(!'ht lights tha t resemh1W ta~
sh~oting stars, hut three o f them were
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moting horizontally, unlike a ny shoot­
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nenr b) said that he saw a light off his
left wing; Ba rnes found a corre~ponding
pip on the radarscope. Other pilots in the
vicinit\ repon e<l, howeH r, that they
could sec nothing unu~ual. T oward
daybreak, ten pecu~lia r pips were counted
,1multnneously on Barnes' screen.
" There is no other conclusion I can
reach but that for six hours on the
morning of the twen tieth of J ulJ there
were a t least ten unidem ifiahle ohjects
movin(!' above \ Vashington," Barnes
wrote: " They were no~ ord inary air­
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ha nd-framed for \lark Cro~~- Blad ..
trol Center's radarscope again showed
navy, grey, brown, jp'ecn, winc-. •a.so
unidentifiable object:, over \Vashing ­
,IIail and phoM ordtr1 ~/l~J. SU 7-40()()
ton. So did the screen a t the .\ndrews
Air Force Base, j ust outside the capi­
ta l. T wo jet interceptors, capahle of '
do111g six hundred m iles a n hour,
lf't
It's
were dispatched from a hase nea r N e w
Here!
Hew!
Ca\de, D elaware, to 111vest1gatc. \Vhen
the interceptor:. appeared on the radar­
scopes, the) were g uided towa rd the
objeers. One of the pilots sighted
four lights approxima tely ten miles
~
111 front of his plane and slif!htly a bove
tt, but the) vani, hed while he was
tr} ing to o verta ke them. Twenty
minutes later, he s."lw "a steady white
light," hut within a m inute it, too,
disappeared. " \ Ve ha \•e no evidence
Easy to Play-only $4.98
they were Rying saucers," a n Air Force
Cum1>l<-tc with blo\\ piJlt, <lroncs, chauntu, hri11l11
repre~entative said later. "Con versely,
plaid l,aa •ncl ribl,on1, this .-nsy-10-pl,,y , \ m rican
Oaarirw, i• an :u11ht111ic rcplicA of the Scotch in
we have no evidence they were not
-.;trumtnt , hut !l<>un,I~ mtllo,,cr and ~,,·t\:t ~r. An,>ont·
firing
saucers. \ Ve don't know what
can lean i lo pfay 1101•ubr tunt.. in a m.1ttc;r of min­
utts just by r<-:,ding numbcra, ~l;ide of \\38hablr the) were."
S t)"rcnt: :rnd \ 'inylik, it•, '3(c, ...anit.ary and Mron".
•\ s a re~ult of these two incidenfa,
Fa:--cinatiul' fun-mal cr for chiMrcn .and gro"'n u,,..
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1or only s • .98 (inclutles how to•r•L1y , unir fol,kr) 10:
heig ht. The Air F orce was bomba rded
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with hundreds of lette rs, telephone calls,
2 West ◄ 5th St.
New York 19, N. Y.
and telegrams demanding in formation
and
o ffering advice. One of the :.mailer
MRS . KARO'S
airline:, supplied ih crews with ca meras
a nd ordered them to photograph any
160 EAST 62nd STREET
saucers the) encountered. A civilian
TE'mpl•t°" 1•6516
wrote to the Air F orce that he would
nar,e 79 , 80
Sp•ci• lish in •ilh , tecu , l•blt llnens, shirts;
• I mod •r• I• r•lu
let it in on "the secret" in return for a
Lo11nd•rlng for f h fino,f • om••
colonelcy. A Los Angeles p.1stor wrote
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tronomers, whom J ' r"1 lled "our best
advisers . . . in • •~ss of visitors
from elsewhere,
~ ;aph the sky
continuously, but they had reported no
saucers. The G eneral was reminded
that many of the people who had told of
seeing the most spectacular things were
considered the most reliable. He replied
that he had no intention of discrediting
them, but the fact remained that none
of them had offered data of the kind a
scientist would find useful. An Air
Force officer whom General Sam­
ford personally knew to be a com­
petent witness had told him of seeing
a saucer in the Middle East. This
man, too, had been unable to obtain ac­
curate measurements. "We have many
reports from credible observers of in­
credible things," the General remarked.
Like General Moore, his predecessor
in Project Saucer days, General Sam­
ford denied that the Air Force was at­
tempting to cover up secret experiments.
When he was asked if tl1e saucers might
be the guided missiles of a foreign coun­
try, he replied that he didn't see how, on
the basis of their weird performances,
they could be unless "someone" had
achieved a means of developing unlim­
ited power-"power of such fantastic
higher limits that it is a theoretical un­
limited; it's not anytl1ing that we can
understand"-and utilizing it under
conditions in which no mass is involved.
As for the latter, the G eneral told the
press, drawing a laugh, " You know,
what 'no mass' means is that there's
nothing tl1ere."

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HILE General Samford's inter­
view probably reassured the public as evidence that the Air Force was
still on me job, it did nothing to lessen
the nation's saucer-consciousness. The
reporters had hardly rnanked the Gen­
eral for his comments when, on Au­
gust I st, a Coast Guard photographer
produced a picrnre showing four bizarre
lights burning brilliantly in a daylight
sky. He said he had taken it over Salem,
Massachusetts. The next day, a H ar­
vard astrophysicist called the photograph ,
worthless because it was accompanied by
no scientific data, such as temperature
distribution and altitude. On August
6th, an Army physicist at Fort Belvoir,
Virginia, creato6 the equivalent of flying
saucers in his laborat0ry by introducing
molecules of ionized air into a partial
vacuum in a bell jar, and three days
later an internationally known authority on atmospheric conditions said of the
physicist's experiment, "I know of no
conditions of the earth's atmosphere,
high or low, whi~h would duplicate,

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Date October 6, 1952
Case References
INVESTIGATION OF POSSIBIE £ /
UNIDENTfFIED FLYING QBJt:'CT
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Department of the Air Force, The Pentagon
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V. P. KEAY

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Reference is made to an article which appeared in
"Th
w Yor~er" dated September 6, 19 , which is attached.
Thi
ticle which was written by D:Lnie
ang contained
inaccurate information regarding FBI inves gations, indi­
cating that the FBI conducts certain inquiri s regarding
flying saucers at the request of the Air Force. It is
pointed out here that, although the Bureau did at one time
conduct some investigations regarding flying saucers, a
pr esent agreement ha_s been set up with the Air Force whereby
the Air Force conducts all investigations pertaining to .flying
saucers and the Bureau, upon receiving complaints of this nature,
merely turns the com.plaints over to the Office of Special
Investigations (OSI), which in turn t r ansmits the information
to Air Intelligence. Air Intelligence has set up the Air
Technical Intelligence Center at Wright- Patterson Air Force
Base, Dayton, Ohio, for the purpose of coordinating and handling
of research pertaining to /lying saucers.
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Inquiry was conducted in order to determine, if
possible, the source for the information appearing in the
attached article regarding FBI investigations. Lieutenant
Colonel L. L. Free in charge of the Espionage Br anch,
Counter - Intelligence Division, Office o.f Special Investigations,
advised that no one in OSI has been contacted by Lang, and he
suggested direct contact by the Bureau Representative with
Air Intelligence to determine if Lang had been in touch with
anyone i n that organiaation in order to gather information for
his article.
Col onel c. M. Young, Ezecutive Officer to Major
General John A. Sam.ford, Dir ector of Air Intelligence,advised
that Lang has not-90..TLt_acted.-G.erurr·al ~a!lt/_ord ' s _of_.f.:i,c.e.
~onel Young also telephoni cally contacted Captain Ruppelt
of the Air Technical Intelligence Center, Wright- Patterson
Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, on September 30, 1952. Captain -/r
Ruppelt advised Colonel Young that they have never indicated
in any way to Mr. Lang that the FBI has an interest in flying
saucers. Captain Ruppelt stated that the FBI to his knowledge
has never been called upon to fur nish reports on flying saucers.
Ruppelt is under the impression that Mr . Lang made the story up ,~
or picked it up from some maga2ine or newspaper article sometime
back. Both Colonel You ng and Captain Ruppelt are thor oughly /\ W •
familiar with Bureau policy pertainirrp ;o fl~ing ; a~~
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Colonel Young suggested that further contact be made with
Mr. Albert Chop o/ the Office o/ Public Information, Of/ice o/
the Secretary of Defense, who represents the Air Force in
public relations contacts pertaining to /lying saucer matters.
Jlr. Chop was contacted and advised that he was familiar
with the attached "New Yorker" maga2ine article. He advised
that Lang had gathered most o/ the material about two years ago
when considerable publicity regarding /lying saucers had appeared
in newspapers. He does not know where Lang gathered the material
at that time but assumes that he gathered it from various sources,
/ such as other newspaper articles. When the recent publicity
regarding flying saucers appeared in newspapers, Lang renewed
his interest in flying saucers and attempted to bring his
article up to date. He contacted llr. Chop for further current
information. Jlr. Chop advised that he gave Lang some routine
items of interest regarding /lying saucer complaints and
investigations by the Air Force, but that he instructed Atr. Lang
not to contact the Air Technical Intelligence Center /or further
information from that source. Jlr. Chop also advised that at
no time was the FBI mentioned and that he has no idea where
Lang obtained the information appearing in his article concerning
FBI investigations. J,Jr. Chop advised that he is thoroughly
familiar with Bureau policy pertaining to flying saucer investi­
gations,and that he at no time has indicated to any writer or
newspaper representative that the FBI conducts investigations
pertaining to flying saucers. Jlr. Chop advised that, i/ the
Bureau desires, he would be glad to contact Lang to discreetly
determine where Lang obtained his information indicating that the
FBI conducts investigations pertaining to /lying saucers. He
stated that he could make this contact without indicating in
any way the Bureau has contacted him. He was advised that his
of/er o/ cooperation was appreciated, but that it was not
desired that he make such an inquiry at the present time.
J

There is attached a current mimeographed form containing
current information regarding the whole /lying saucer matter
which was turned over by Chop. This is the information which

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make inquiry in the Office of Public Information.
ACTION:
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For your information.
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DATE:

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SYNOPSIS:
Aiz:.. ~Intelligence advised of another creditable and
u11,expl~lnable ~~9.,.hti ng of flying sauc~~s. Ajr .Lot~lli9.ence
still teeLs fly(ng saucers are oetical illusions or a;11t0.a;;,
phericaLplJ,,enoml]_n~a _but some Vilit(fry of1icials are ,vriQ,1&;.Qly
considering the,..2~s!ibility of int ~£1anetary ships.

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You will recall that Air Intelligence has previously
kept the Bureau advised regarding developments pertaining to Air
Intelligence research on the flying saucer problem. Air Intelligence
has previously advised that all researdh p ertaining to this Rroblem
is handled by the Air Tecbnical Inte-Ingence Center located at
W~i"ht-Patt~ca..eJJ-.A.t Force Base, Dayton, Ohio; that approximately
90 per cent of the reported sightings of flying saucers can be
discounted. as products of the imagination and as explainable objects
such as weather balloons, etc., but that a small percentage of
extremely creditable sightings have been unexplainable.
DETAILS:
Colonel a. J/. You~_ Executive Officer to J/ajor General
Jo"!}n A,.. Sam,/o r]t JJi recTJor 07 -Inte11 igence, Atr fore§. adJJ •st{J on
Octqker 2.,, 1952, that a~other recent extremel"11_creditable sighting
had been_!!Ported to Air Intelligence. A, Nauv photogT.!:,J:,_her, while
trauellng across the united States in his own car, saw a number of
ohiec~s in tae. s.1£JI_J]h}.gh appeared to be flying saucers. He tooK
OPJ?roximat~ly thirt,JJ;,jiue Jeet of mozion-picture film of these
ob_,je#t~. He voluntart~y submitted the fiJ.J!:. to Air Intelligence who
had it st~died by the Air Technical Intelligence Center. Experts
at the Air Technical rn;telltgence..Qenter have advised that, a'?t'e'r
care,ful study_ the_re were as many as - twelve to sixteen flying objects
re~orded on t,b~a .f..jlJJJ; that the posstbility o,tweather balloons,
clouds or qlher explainable objects has been comi1e!"'eLy ruled out; /
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and that t}u y_a eat a complete loss to explain this most recent
creditable sighting. The Air Technical Intelligence Center experts
pointed out that they could not be optical tllusions inasmuch as
opt teal lllusions could not be -~•c:rz~ ~ " - ''.!,.·

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FLYING SAUCERS
coJoneZ roung ad u,}sed that Ajr Intelljqerw e it-Ult .Cu.J.s
that the so-called JllUi'l}1LSaucers are either optical illusions or
atmos~heri C.J!J...Jifilrnomena. He pointed out , no112e uer, tbrtf; ,sQ:?Pe
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reference on the name Harvel Woodro~ece (64-32001-1-135,
encl. page 7). In vtew of the in:formatton contained tn 64-32001-1,
tt is not believed the reference wi l l be pertinent in this tnstance.
Thts action ts being t aten to e~pedtte the Bureau's reply to the
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V. P . KEAY

Dt_E : December 5 , 1 52

~UBJ...,C ... t) PROPO.SED 3TuDY ON THE
11 FLYING SIDJ(,..t!,RS 11 PHENOMEhA ;
L1TELLI 1 ,_ (,,:., ADV .LS )RY COb..1•1L'.1 TEE
Pursuant to instr~cti~ns , Su,ervisor M.W. Kuhrtz of t~e
Liaison uection attended the Intelligence Advisory Lommittee (IAC)
meeting on December )1 , 1952 .
~one of the ugenda i terns are of direct inter·e t to the Bureru ;
however , ::)r . F . M. Chadwe J. , centrtl Intelligence Agency (LI\) , directv<l
the me- Jf.rs r L ttention to some aspects· of the "flying :;,£ UCt ..~.., " oheno
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mena . He said that a recent nre entat·on of a theory on "saucers w... s
made by n Germtin atcmic scientist, w 1 cri feet hrs ct.sea t.he Llritish to
initiate con iferable intelligence effort into this m tter . Accor inG
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to. r . Chadwell , efforts are being mEde to obtain the tierrn~n
scientist
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oaner on this t11eory . ,\lso , it was stated th.rt
recent saucers obser­
vation in Africa oresents Sllme evidence that t'1e 11 saucer~ 11 're not a roe ­
teorologic~l nhenomeno , J1ich tneory has been held to a~te by the Air
=orce . Instea, , t~is letter incident indicated t1e nossibl lity of the
11 saucers 11 bein5 a scientific dc:,velopment .
.1.he detuils of tnis Afric n
obser1ation were not ~re ented ; nowever , an"ronriate contact will be m·de
by the 3u •eau I s Liaison ...>ect ion with the 1~ir Force to determine vhe
deta... ls of t us latter report .
As a result of the above , -i;he 't' ilit&ry mcmb rs sum;ested a
lo7:csl apnroach wnich would call or a gr0up ) f sciEntists to ~eke &
stud;y 1f the new 11 saucers 11 data in an effort t o identify the nhenomena .
If 2n identifica"(;.:on cun Je L-de by t.he -,c . - 1 1.tis ts f nd it can be dett-I'­
rr:ined thrt the "sauc, "S 11 Ere a scir ..tific develoDment , "(;hen IAC should
determine a furtheI' course of action for t~e u.~. 0 vernment . It was
further sug e sted that the IAC shou.d onl: c01cet'n itself wit, t.1is m~tt r
on the basis that a compet nt sc:entific _;roup might deter ine the:
"e·
" saucers" to be a scientific develonrt1ent unde • the control of our enemy
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Dr . Ch1;J.d•rnll wvs directed to drtft a oaoer on this uroblem for "
IAC c nslder·tlon . Unon recc·~t of t~is dra~t , anDroorirte Bureau re ­
corr.menda tions will 'be mE de nr•ior to IAC an....,r, v 1 .
ACT 'r : Liaison will obtt.in the deta:_1s of the "flying s& tcers
observ•ti n :n Afr.:ca from t~ Air Force . ·
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de to my ~emor~ndu December~ . 1952 . You will
recall
ntelligence Advi ry ommittee (IAC ) meet .g held
December 4, l
2 , >r . H. M. ~h dwe~l , Centr
Intellig nee gency(CIA )
directed the nJ,..,,, c 1 0 1 attention t o sorne : spocts of the " fl~ting scucers "
ohenomenn . Ee mado rofe once to a or er:tction of a t i ory n " sauc rs"
which
d beon made by o Germen ~omic sci nti~t and which fact hl?d
caused the ritinh to initinto con ider bl intelligonce
effort
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t e atter . Cho.dwell ul o rnado ref er once to a recent 11 • auce .:; obscr v tion in Africa . He cid not furn~sh det ilw on
e Afr"c2 nh e~v tion .
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Tho Lioioon Agent cont cted es ST' • 1olnh Ll rl , (b) (3) (A)
nd ~ch rd elm. , 11 of the CIA, fort
·~n e f obt
Jdition l
details c ncernin the 11 0 1cors 11 repo •t w ch center d • n frica . hese
ln<.lividu ls furnished i form tion r fl c .. ng th t a ew weeks go n
explo ion of ltrgo nrooortion wts picked uo on severe] Lei rrogr nhs and
lt was ndic ted th t tho exolo ion ,
~ tered in ce tral f ri c •
Accordin to elno Gnd Cl rk , renort~ of un non r lt bility ere re­
ceived indicating that tho oxplosiong might hEvo ewer ~n· rr~m a flying
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ore recent reports received from e bro d ir.
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The Liaise .r•ge t :n u red regllrding the "sauc r II theory
ich
1·eoortoclly wcs prosented by a Ger!I' n c.tornic sc ontist . Cl rk dv1 sed
th t t e re l't on the scienti t hcd not boen I' oc i ved b the CIA as
yet .
ACrION:

t s ·tt r will be follo~ed b: tho Li ion Age t
oose of obtaining add t1onal cleta.il. c once ·nin; the 11 0 ucer
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Dote:
o/ Spec,al Inveattgattona
Th• Inap•otor G•n•r.al
Deparuent o/ the .4 tr Tore•
The Pen ta~on
Washtngtoft 25, D. c.
Director
From:
John Edgar Hoover, Director
Q ied•ral Bur•ou o/ Inu•ettgatton
Subject:
TLTING DISCS
NISCELLANBOUS - INJ'ORUA TION CONCERNING
There are attoched /or uour tn/onatto~ tn
the captt oned aa tter a Pho:taata t a/ a letter dated
Januaru 20, 1953, rec•tved bu this Bureau fro•
Jfr. Rob•rt D. .,ol/, 19 North Tor•'lfthe Street, Frankl in,
Indiana, wtth th• •ncloaurea re/erred to therein, and o
copv o/ thta Bureau'• r~plv to Mr. 101/.
No tnv••ttgatton ta being conducted bu this
Bureau tn thts Mtt•r•
COMM~ fSI
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MAILED 30
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Dear !l.!r.
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Your letter dated Januar11 201 1958, h.aa
baen reoetvcd1 together wtt~ encloaurca.
Although I would like to hD o;/ oervtoe
tn conneotton with your request, I would 11kc to
point out that the FBI ts strtctly a /act-findtng
agency and i~ ts not ~ithin the ocope of tts
preaortbed authortty to coke aualuationo or draw
conclusion. as to the character or integr.1ty oj­
any organt:,atton or tncuv,dual. I know i,ou wlll
underptand the reason for thin rulo and wtll ap­
prooiate my tnabtlttu ~o be of aootstanoe to you
in thts regard.
T1ie lttera'turc and lettor
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ATTENTION SA.C's: Correspondent also enclosed a copy o.f
the fanuary 19, 1953 issue o.f "t,pace Review", the publication
of The International ~lying Saucer Bureau, indicating the
address as Post f~fice Box 241, Bridgeport ✓ Connecticut.
This small periodical contains news ~f various I.F. S.B.
groups ~hroughout the United ~t ates and England and news
items relating to flying saucers.
No references can be located in Bufiles on the I.r. B. B. ;
"Space Review" or Albert K. Bender .

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DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL DEFENSE
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JACKSON STREETS
FRANKLIN,
ROBERT D. WOLF
Director
INDIANA
20 January 1953
Mr. J. Edgar Hoover
Director Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington, D. C.
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Dear Sir:
I would first like to apologize for writing to you direct, however, I have
cleared this morning with our State Director and he suggests this procedure.
have been having some success with our Ground Observation Cor ps as vre have
( 4) posts here in the coun~ f. , r ,
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Last Fall I was contacted by on~ of our local business men wanting to know if
I would be ir.terested in joining ~nternational Flying Saucer Bureau. I told him
that I would ~nd did join with the idea fully in mind of having the local peopl e who
are interested in Flying Saucers also work in our Civil Defense Program. We are
only too willing to co-oper&te i n any way we can with Civil Defense. The city of
Franklin is approximately twenty (20) miles southwest of Indianapolis. on the dual
lane highway US :{f:31.
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I ~ enclosing a letter which was received last October, as well as the current
• issue o~ACE REVIEW. Would like to know if this organization has been cleared or
is subversi ve in any way.
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I would appreciate your expediting this information back to us so that we will
know what steps to take in further enlisting interested persons in our program.
If you do not r equir e the enclosures please return them.
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ALBERT K BENDER
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cranklin , Indiana . Also ,ooint a loc 1
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lhese are all merely sug e~ti,ns !or )UU to ponder over
if you decide to adopt any oft m ple e consult with
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nis , ;et in tJuch with n: e at nee .
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Copyright 1953 by A
VOL II, No. I

ltT K. BENDER

Bridgeport, Conn., U .S.A

Janu.i.ry, 19'

IFSB OF BRITAIN ORGANIZ ES

C,,pt l L P ,mktll Appomted
/'r / 1 J. Rtp, ,.,, o ,taltte.
The IFSB h.., hn.tlly
en organized m
Great HntJlll "'11 h ret1reJ < .!pt. E. L. Plun­
kett , ot ht tith . rn ,y .1~ Br itish Repre en­
.i t1,·l . Mr PJun ett re 1de, ,it 71 Ched­
..,orth R I. I Io rut:ld Hrn tol .... Engl.ind .
D rn i- . on ol Mr . Plunk ·tl, 1) :ht assistant
rc prc cntJt ,vc:, , ut , nov. servmg his
oun tr} 111 the ll >pl Air Force .
Rep Plunket t hJ , ,hown gre.it interest
nd to rt, ight 1n lo rmmg the IFSB m the
Bnt1~h I le , . , umerou, articles h.ive .i.p­
l' c'Jrc:d in lt-.idm.i: ne wsp.ipers throu.gh his
l To rts. He 1s pl.! nn111,1; o n usm,c. local 1,d ls
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w v. ,paper report t' r , and fl ying sau
en
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,ut t ill) for the IFSH .inJ i~ nov,; th e only
1ty 111 tilt "orld th.1 1 h.i s the mo)t mem ­
ers in o ur organ1z.1t1011 f'hrough the
reJt effo rt , and wor l. of Mr Loui l"rahm,
•ll';; nc" nun , M r. Jack W Moore, police11 JJ1 , Mr. Rolxrt W olf, uvilian defense
!trector, and M r. 0 1Ck Campbell, IFSB
Repn:~entat1\e fo r Ind iano, this great ac­
omplishrnent was made pomble. A t this
, 11 b l1, at1o n. Franklin can daim 20 mt'm­
c r, ,, 1th ten from nearly towns, giving
1 to• al of ,o ,mcc all thl'i mt t rt,t l1.1s been
1romcd Mr Frahm plans to form J citj
..: roup v. 1th t heir ov,; n lha mnan . secret.1. ry
md t rea, urt·r Among the meml:xrs you
vii : n.! po litemen , l, hrar i.lll,, rne,han1cs,
011
r .ti pd ts, oo,ine, •11en, hus dn, rs,
111 , . t r,
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11en
he) m.i) buil d .1. portable
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At prt,tnt \{r Plunkett 1, ho ding
"- t: kl)· rneetint , at h is homt:. where they
11- IFSB and t1ymc ,auLcr, 111 m er.ii.
t II rt her in for mJt 1on aho ut
tr Brit ­
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nearby towns,

<" 111 h a\ 1ni,; h ,ul at least

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du .i, t , urnme r Two we re
1tne,,ed b\' ~ r / r.1hrn and Mr. Moore.
1,c htm~, art re, iewcd in
eports 0 1 the
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LUIS LUHRING NAMED
PUERTO RICAN REPRE SENTATIV E

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ago
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PROF . EINSTEIN
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- -- - --·------- - - - ~-- --------------SAUCERS IN THE NEWS

MA, .-,G u Ez, PuERl o Rrco, Oct. 3, 195 2"ltrangc: objed s were sighted by t o per•
·;ons in Map guez on O ct. 3, th y were
1 ruirn1g East and were red in rnlo r. It was
.,hor.t 10 · 30 p.m. when they were sighted .

NoH\\'AY AND SWED EN , Oct 13, 19 52Dun ni-: October the Norwegian Govern•
ment startd that a strange object resemb­
li!1g a sauter landed on N orwegian soil.
( r( rrn 10 experts are cl.u rning that the de­
\ 11 c:, .ire of Ruman origin, and the desript ion given by Norway fits the descrip­
' , gn·en by Ge-rm, 1 experts. Stockholm,
) ·t:de n, has al
~ en sighting strange
ob1ects
MELBOURNE, A L JRALIA, Sept. 13, 19P
- A young worn
sighted a noisele,,
grn n ball flying tO( t ast to be a plan e or .l
rnett·or She: s,nl
melled li ke a rotten
egp.
5Tl 'TTGAR T
Nov. 1, 195 2 i!, of the third Int
At the re, <"
1t1onal A\ r
al Cong ress in C
,.my where 200
nt ists fro m l 2 c
tn e, g athered the
ted that sauce
not from Mars or any other planet
sa , the, art me rely optical anJ
lu I

,.

NEW YORK - A te rr th, 1r
place ove r .l ,mal l area. of
'J'.Y., which b e win w .
r,l kt
·valks and
gc:neral
nic. I
were no pl.i ne. ar nd
duled at that time, 0 , 19'1 '
AIRPORT, N fw You.: ,
A blue flame fl ashed o tr
ia.l Airport at 7: 33 p.m . It
I-like obj ect. H ayden Pi neu 1 stated it may have
th<a meteor.
],
t 1, YORK, ENGLAND.
'0.
IY
[ uring exercise " Mainhr
AF
p1l
i hted J wh ite object ;1 : I 000
feet fhe ob1 ect was silver m rnl
nd
circular Ir m,11nta111ed a slov. fo rward
,pl"t'd before b<.!(lllnr ng to dt nd , sv. ing111
11kt: .1 p cndu) u!' It foll o -. nl 1 , · air­
" It. revolved 01
own .i.x, , .1 1
nes
.tnd then took r
ERN ... nnNAL

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W ASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 16, 1952- 'fhe
Navy announced that it launched r0t
from ant balloons, high aoove the No h
Geo
etic Pole, and sent them to .ilt1tudes o .lbout 40 miles. The balloons were
as ta.It
l 0-story building.
PARIS, hANC F., Oct. 7, 195 2 - A flying
.iucer was sighted over Southern France
y two Air France p ilots.
WESTERN KOREA FRONT, Oct. 29, 1952
U. S. troops saw a half-dozen mysterious
i'ark- throw ing "cartwheels" over the we~ ­
ern front of Korea. They were as the eye
-ees, 18 inches in d iameter, moving ,n a.
I 5-f oot circle.
GAIi I AC, Soi 1TH O F FRANCE, Oc-t 29,
19~2 For the -;econd time in two weeks,
)Q townspeople of G a.iliac saw a ~nes of
~ hite ci rcular objects, slightly • o llen at
•he center, pinn in across t,
they
"ere flytng I f
ion of t
ere
wouped ar
d
hing that looked
like a ,1t1ant 8ymg ogar. As the objeds
passed overhead they let fal l a.
rt of
)tring of bright h e threa.ds, which settled g
• (', and telephone line
W hen •
p t ried to ptek them up,
li ke Ke. A police officer who
they m..J
pKked 1 , 111w of the thread said : " It
looked 11 <" g l.1 s wool and it melted away
.ilmost a~ .oon ,ts ,t was touched ."
OLORON , FRANCE, Oct. 17, 1952- Abou t
.1 dozen people. including a schoolmaste r,
aw fl ying saucers surrounding a long cigar
li ke object flying through a clear sky at
.1bout 6,000 feet .
NEW ZEALAND- The d ippings and stor­
ies from New Zealand are swamping our
offite and .ire so nume rous that we must
de\ote a whole pa~e to them in our April
,sue.
I r m n, e dt'J.Jd,d 111/01matton on an ,
f 1/ ,, 1hn l',. ple.1•t' 11 nle to JFSB

P/e.11, J.it , )ONr cl1ppi11gr that you send
,,, "' · t111 d 11 0 /e th e 1fJ11rce .

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3

SUTTON, WEST VIRGINIA MONSTER MAY BE
" COLLIER'S" ROCKET!
Rev. S. L. Daw, Wmhlngton, D.C., lepresentatfve, IFSI
I han per nally photograph ed flying saucers ax times and personally photogra.phed
rht place wher<· one landed in Charleston, West Virginia. I also talked to two eye-witnesses.
I ,a..., and t.ilked to a police officer who was burned by one in Wheeling, W est Virginia.
My ow n cou in w.i the doctor who treated him.
I .i.ttmipted to photograph one going over Melessa Pass, ~000 f~t up in the Blue
R 1< ~t· mounta1m, lS I w.u at a height of 2~00 feet at Wahala Glen Just directly opp<>site
fron Mele \.I P .. The p 1Lture was not too good du to the mist from the mountams.
The ohtetl that landed at Charleston, W I Virginia was desc ri bed as a large metal
t, II , •hrow1nR off .t white light and after Ian, 1 , two small men m red emerged from
.a tr.11 m the op 1nd climbed up a tree to look '>Und . Seeing people watchi ng them, they
~ot t-, d; in 1nd took off. We can prove what r
was : In the attempt to shoot rockets to
the moon the re 1s a de\·1t e with the m tors on the wings and the body of the device is
.i et r ro
llcd .ipparatu which throw ff a .irge metal shaped disc which throws off a
red , nlo• • rom the crn te r which when iTfiect< J coulcl..,easily be taken for some sort of a
,mall I
,11 T h s was descn txd in (
r's
gazine of October 11 , 19 ~2 .
,rding to the W ashin.i;:r on D
ew the monster seen at Sutton, West Virginia
coul I
the rocket dest nbed in Coll.
m.ig u me The picture on the cover of the magad, t k-bd lied rocket craft pcwing out burning
zine , ws a sphert headed, w1 le-bo<
hydraz ne and nitric aci d as rt Imd }11 nd-enr on the moon . The West Virginia people
'
to have seen · " An ob1r- t estimated
IO feet tall , four feet Wide a.t the bottom
..,. t • man. Tw, light fl , h
om side to side, the mat: hine made a noise
.u
11-.e f;,h c:~u1,ing, .1,
h.irr ,1l ke
.is ahout ." Sounds somev. h.it the same.
T he United States may t
p<
1th something that th pub!JC is not .iware
ot and 1t 1\ doing its be t to keep
lie age of r0tket ships is Just around the
corner.

CIVILIAN SAUCE

I VESTIGA TION OF NEW ZEALAND
C

TAcn IFSB

Th C1vdi.in
October 1 ~. 19~
affiliation with
e bee,
rnJy helong Mo, of the m
pa rt 1
tive yea rs. Thq represe nt all 1
11!.1'1 in the ,r ed The committt
of M
idenl
.atta hed 10 , .iz1nee ring, who 1
seen
of the Temtor .ii Alf Force, h
t1on engine rani.: in pector . D I A
(,r .i.1t,er. an ,1. tronorne r and en 11
Aims of tht' , ommrttee .ar ,
orrespor
matdy find the on •in of flym
an l
La
M• H H Fultun, and Mr R
( ounL ii •I IF, H \X' l hope to e t.abl1,h
e..., Z~al.inJ C. I ,t:nl to
,.,ultr, h,I\ c been ,i.izhttJ "" rt
II he made an our next 1,,u,·.
ht )' di be a suness .

7~ and as et up m N ew Zealand on
• ~ th existente of saucer~. It has no
,
H to .iny son cty to which rt members
udymg fl ying s.iucer reports fo r at least
.tstronorners, scientists, aviato rs, and the
f H . Fulton, a sergeant m the R.N .Z.A.F.
CSI of N Z, Mr R. J. La.van .. a member
f CSI of NZ ; M r. G H Gilmore, avia­
tudy mg for a science degree; and E. J.
h kindreJ bodae overseas, and to ulti 111 an on .

en m.& Jc- mem~r, of tht Internataooal
<lat1orh "1th th" ''-" aety .and get a rep•

m.ip ut N " Zealand ,howi ng all
of <J t ,1,a.(h ang. A rnmplete repo rt
C I 01 , ..., Ze.dand the best o f Jue k

,HRl'
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PACE

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EDIT

IAL

4

after traveling tholl$ands of miles rou
In I 92 C.Olumbus d'i overed a new
the great expanse of unknown waters called • Atlanti< Ocean. It was a great adventure,
yet one that was laughed at, ridiculed, and evc:r roke of as a "folly".
Herc w a small group of men sc rchin3 ,or what lay beyond the known. endeavor­
mg to unfold the mysteries of lands that wer not supposed to ex1 . All they had ere
three small hips laden with provisions that
estimated would last the joum .
The seas were infested with monsters,
·he skeptIC said, and the world was flat
fallaue to be wront, when he bnded
with a dropping off place. Columbus proved '
in the West Indies.
The years d1re<.tly ahead of us 111 sec
ht:r great adventure such as this. A
group of men wL!l usemble in a tertain d
ated place, dunb into their ship, a 1p
vastly different than that of Columbu
time. Thu ship will be a rocket shop, and 1t ocof space to find ne
orlds, new pcoplet and
cupants will shoot off into the \
ri,w frontiers .
They will be laughed at, they
th<. greatest "fo , on earth, but w1 l
become realitie
automobile, t
and the
mg of the atom are de
ltever!

be ridiculed , and the hole thing will be called
be uch? Time h.u proven that impossibilines
atrpla.ne, ra.cii , te~
tcle-graph. tel
ion,
proof. All I po 11
lxheves,-and

*
T ht my cries of space have 1
momer to gaze in awe at t
any clear night.

mate, most p<:orlt I
t wh1CI unfolds beto,,

.wh. One need not be
eyes as we gau sky-

ex a,n, even for astrono~rs . When distances
vastness of space i. d1
the term "hght year, than miles . The
icn
I
-n of it is simpler for k r
like
our own earth are unknown. The
f celestial bodies SU$pa1
n f
m
just
that-guessc .
re from millions on up. Bu t My r
na,,
I

~

ho make our home on ,1. 1
c,ri r of matter , the eyes of space, cannot be
h to think that intel11gen1 lite ex1\h only here. Those who believe that there
tor everything wh1 th har1 ns, should agree th,1.t rhese m1!11ons of bodies m
Pe more of a purpo,l th.i. n 1u,t twinkling brightly on a dear night.

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"MY T ORY"
by lFSIMeMbers
, THEORY NO. {r-.Subm1tted by BARBARA KNORR, Member from Connecticut
Everybody seems to bchcvc that the "saucers", whatever they arc, come from this
Solar ystcrn. I do not believe y other planet but ours can support intelligent life Per­
haps plant life, but not human.
I do believe that if our planet can upport life, why not other planets in other Solar
Systems. I do not believe that these people ,
to destroy u.s because if they had they
~ know that th
thlngs we . e .ire not
could have done so long ago. Also, how
beings themselves.
THEORY NO. 7

ubmitted by Represent

e LOUIE MASONICK., JR., of Minnesota

My theory is one most IFSB mcmbcn
to have. First, I believe they are from another planet. AU those stars must have 10mtthing going around them. All those celestial
bodies must be up there for some ru1on, ~ ides to look at. Then, also, they may even
be from our Solar System.
I do not think an official agenl)
our government should come out and say- we
do not know what they are and wheth or ot they are a menace." The best way to reveal
the objects would be through dubs Ii , he IFSB. I do not believe that they are a menace.
1nd that they are just observing u.s
I think there 1s intelligent life on th
THEORY NO

-Submitted by Rq

ntat1ve ALA1' RIEVMAN of Connecticut

My theory o the origin of the
arc from one of the planets of our So.
the other Solar Sy tems. These "neighl
mtell1,gent life upon it, but with th
mmd

>in,._ saucers' 1s that thev are finite!) real .ind
·y r m. I do not bdiev that they are from one of
" probably thought that our planet could not have
t atomic explo ,on th ) may have ch.inged cht:ir

s1bl
ov

ure that they are not fr
1t quiet and 1f they wer•
red States. They would r

rth because if they were ours it would be impos­
on .i foreign government they wouldn't be flying
being h down and their secret revealed to us.

THl

Y NO. 9-Submitted by Repr,

theory is that the "flying
intell . nt creatures who are scoulm
us for 1,any reasons. One is that
have d1 ases which may harm or
the planet we may meet them . A
t.unly does exist.
I H ORY NO . I O-Subm1tted h

nt

VICTOR ROOT of Illinois

manned shirs controlled and operated by
r J They wil not try to make contact with
.ulike and emotional. Another is that we
m Some day when we reach out and touch
f ntcl I tnt creatures other than oursdves, cer-

T AZER. Member from California

I thank that the " flying sauu:r
from the ..olar system of ALPHA or PROXIMA
Cf NTUARI. Mo t likely the 3rd ur •h planet. ll, planet,~ probably .i.bout 4000 miles
in J1amettr .ind two-third, J5 big a th earth . Somo other reasons are that Ccntauri is too
far d1~tant for obsen ation of uch .l mall body .l a planet. This star i • of about the sam
size and the ,ame spertr.1I , I \J -GO J. rht Sun. Editor's Note : WOW!
/11/ theor,e , becoml! !he pmp rly of tri.B a11d ca1111ol be ret11med.

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HIGHLIGHTS ABOUT
7
RESENTATIVES
DICK CAMPBELL, Rep. Indiana- Rep. Campt,. ,1 has written us many interesting letters
and ,uded 1n making his home town of Frankfin
only city in the world with the most
IFSB mem r~ At present it totals over twenty. He Wll assisted by Mr. Louts Frahm, and
Mr. j I.: oon.: of that place.
• • •
ALBERT, rep. Ontario, Canada- Will be appointed Representative of
LARGE. Doing a fine 10b. Wou like more Canadians to join chili.
• • •
T Rep. Illinou--One of our m,, valuable representatives. He has spent
rmg a m p of the United Stat howing the places where saucers have
He is quite a. poet, too ; e his
in this issue. Mr. Root presented the
e are sorry to say that Mr. Root may
saucer map . We are proud of it
to C_..al.fornia in the near future lt will be very hard to replace such an
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\ O DUS, Rep. Ken tuck
r\ . Glenn C. Fuller
R view.. . Mr. Broadd
DI
tend
II A
AN, Rep. Iowa­
to to IFSB.
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Obt.tmed two new members for IFSB. One of
w a ft . n saucer. Her report will be in our next
spreading the word about IFSB.
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med a new member, a.nd has clippings she in-
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\ GUE, Rep. Wisconsin
~I 1s quite the cartoonist. he sent in a cartoon
ally made the International Staff roll off their chairs. he showed the pa.nor
t h the ir nt door open A ·u.ng looking creature had walked in the door
idy tracks on the
r.
e can be seen a saucer parked on the lawn. A
pproaches the creature .1. d t IS is what she says : " I don 't c.ue where you're
from. Loo , t my clean rug • he also Sffll us a fine poem that ap~u~ m this issue. Ga.ii
obtained a new member for u also. She sure is howing fine intere
• • •
Al l.A, LEVINSKY, Rep M.&m -Cl aun t t very few people. .&rt secmg saucers in
M.&m<". Is doing his be to get people 1n1ere tt-d in IFSB.
ROBERT R. RITTER, Rep. T enn
• • •
• • •
e -Chalks up another merrber for IFSB.
LUI LUHR! G, Rep. Puerto Rico- Mr. Luhring has sent us numerous cli_ppmgs from
Puerto R1 to .lbout saucers. He pl.tn to get as any people as possible to JOtn IFSB. He
,ay, thdt the interest in saucers is a~ g reat in Pu. rto Rico as anyplace else.
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S. L DAW , Rep. Wash ington , D C.-We are happy to have for our representative in
W d. I 1 1 •ton, D.C., the first member of the cler . Reverend Daw . Mr. Daw, as he prefers
to l-.. , lleJ by club members, ·is doing g reat
rk for IFSB. W e are anx iously awaiting
to ct his attual photos of saucer, that he .t
himsel f
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RONALD KINNEAR, Rep. t
York- T
st ltl 111 I hdd '\() po,t ca rds pri nted and pl,ns
get1111c '111) r 11port fr om JO N , f ONI H.e p ,, c 111,llffeS. fl I.I ab10l11teiy
, 11 , that u e hea, /mm )OIi , Ju pie,, t Jo J " best t o
t tho ,e month!_, re portr ro /JII c
11, ,
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upon h rm~ lf to . dvertrse in his own
mail them out . 1 1 his state.
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DIRECTORY OF
T he fo/Jowing are .JJ,tional r, prese

ESENTATIVES
, , J 1inc, o•r '4.Jt p11blfrlllion.

BRIT[SH REPRESENT ATIVE- Edgu L. Plu kett, 71 Chcdworth Rd., Horficld, B~i ol
7, England; Assistant Representat ive for ritain Denis Plunkett
PUERTO RICAN REPRESENT ATIVE- Lu1s Luhn r, Box 23, Punta Santi.ago
COLORADO-Verna M. Hampton, 4245 Alcott St., Ocftver
MAINE- Allan Levinsky, 59 Atlantic St., rtund
MISSOL RI Ralph Hetzel, 6 Scar dale, St. l. , 17
NEW JERSEY-August C. Robert . « 3 0
Ave ., Jersey City
NORTH CAROLINA- David T. Benton,
130, E.C.C., GrttnviU
OHIO-Robert (
hnelle, Sr, 714 McM
An :., Cincinnati
OREGON-G. 1 Mc.Colly, 524 Jerse St.,
rton
DISTRICT 01- tOLUMBIA- Rn
L. l> , 'H l9--7 th St., N .W ., W.a.shm on
ray Barker
•>81. C larksbu rg
W EST VIRGINIA
1bo11e 11ames u ,II not be p11 b

J •g111n. Add11io11al nam,i m f11t11r, 1J r11eJ

A nyone Iha/ 1t11hes lo corresp o
·itl, other me,nbers will ,1, 11.1, senJ 11 , permiuion
lo print your name and address so /.
ol "s will know thlll yo11 J,iire Ct>f'r Jpontience.
lf"e d o nr>1 p11!>11Jh lists of our me I, rJ
mes and .,Jdresr11 1 wit 0111 , ,..,,.,sr,on f,o,,,
them .
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LET'S LOOK AT THE MAGAZINES
READERS DIGEST FOR JULY l
-Two artioles "Ha c c Visitors from Space,"
and " Flying Saucer
~ ,
Only."
UE MAG AZINE, SEP1 Y ..
Inc Flying Sau crs m d the My ttrious Little Men."
OCT 1952-"We Fl
bove Fl~1n aucer ."
( l 9'i 2-"What R Jar Tells About Flying Saucer •
AGAZINE, O< I 20 , 19'i2- " oonbound," Page 18.
(
, OCT. 18, 19'i2 'Man on th M
f . 25, 1952- " More About Man
Moon ."
Pl
AGAZINE, NOV. l 9'i2-" How De.
ers Fly?"
w d the Air Around Us."
IR MAGAZINE, DEC. 195 2-" Flyin S ·
MR. AG.AZ! E, JAN. 1953- " I
ash
n Afraid of Flying Saucers?"
MA 10 MA MAGAZINE, JA
~3
Flying Saucer, Are Not New."
TH
'i' TERY O F OT HER
D
I.VEALED-A Fa.wtett Book No. 166. Exl
A luur star edition
• th hne t to date in the pulp line. Co 7~c. We
iliJ ~ uLer-mm ded fol
t this ma.guine. It I onfy once in a great while
pu l,11 her put~ ou t
ri nc publi cation . Contili ns news of Space Travel;
S.i.L U \ , and R0<.kc<
,pment.
T ht , maga~ me J .ire 111 I h, I
urillen mf ,,,111<11 111 to an1 0 11~
1
( omrn2 111

Apr il

1BR A RY .. part of our collection. We wi/J send
have 'I"• rt1ons on above magazines.

. PACE RI'\ U'
.. AUCERITIS" by John Am1itage of England .
An .irt1de th
di m ke you really THINK!
A ( UMPLETE LISTING O F Al.I OF OL R OFFICERS AND COUNCIL MEMBERS

SPACE REVIEW

9

TO ALL MEMBERS Of THE I.F.S.B.­
GREETINGS FROM ENGLAND
Capt. Edgar l . ,tur,kett, B
Rep,-sentative
Are we on the verge of a breath-taking discovery~ Yes, I believe we really are! To
9uote Captain Eddi Rickenbacker, "Too many good men have seen Flying Saucers for
u to dismiss them lightly as hallucinations."
The n'inet~nth and twentieth centuries ha e produced a number of astonishing dis­
l°O\ enes notably the dreaded atom bomb, and al
has had to discard in many cases pre' ,ou ly held convictions such as that ·· tter is in
ructible".
F. ven the verage laymm tod , ue to incr
educational facilities, and access to
l,ter.&ture of all kinds, h .1 very good idea that
in all its forms consi ts of "energy",
\nd hat this energy somehow links bl le to soil torm of pulsating oti>ital structure like
unto th universe, but on
tnfinitcsima..lly smal ,cale. Therefore, it is--to me at least(1u11 hd1evable that it 1\
ible that mewhe
something-someone- has solved the
r <ldle of this energy, etheric, ele<.1rom netic, 11 it what you will. Having progressed
'° f u . 1t follows that given elements ap ble of hstanding immense stresses and strains,
rrorut ,on of what has become kno Tl as t "Flying Saucer" becomes a possibility.
Earth, and presumably between other
l,;1101:1. n that between the un Moon, and
n•er r im ury a.nd possibly 1r r ellar bodies
re exists magnetic Imes of force, thus
1t
orm of &.1rcraft or
r has control
the means of attraction and repulsion,
these I n of fo~ which b
one another, would form the perfect
way never t
t the speed of
t, and probably very much faster. It
high
along wha h to tra
would I o account for the cap .!1 ty of th~ so-<.
"saucers" to accomplish right-angled
emanate in all directions. Therefore,
usmuch that these kno n magnetic wa
nt of view of the AVerage thinking ,nan in the street, I say, " I believe the
r
•st. and th t the coming y • w'ill vindicate such men as Captain
II. Ken neth Arnold, a I ountl
Iler p• ttrs in this field ." In rnndusion, may
rry on t-he .good work, and .1.bove all,
I .i to all IFSB members at
ne and t road,
~ the jeers .nd ,n n of the ignorant
·fo not be disappointed , disLO r.tged or i de
so-called majority."
TI1e best of everything for the ew Y r ab
E. L Pu ETT
Your
ater ly,

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MYSTERIOUS CRAFT
by Gall Sprague
Out of the dark. mysterious, depth of
space,
Came strange looking craft at .& trc.•m n
dous pa.c
Their course WiiS true, the third piane·
lrom the un ,
I h 1r order Don't return until your tas
1, done
Do n hey descended ; some got out
" B back in 24 hours," the comm.rnder
told the scout.
Tim went fast, all returned.
Off went the craft. bearing all hey'd
learned .
The decirn>n wa~ reached, never ag tn,
O n th" sm.dl planet they'd ever !ind
\X' ar, , corruption , prqudice and !:r ed,
, i.1de th,, the wor~t of all planet , ,\II
lJ..!reed

OUT TH

E

by Vidor Root

Out m pale lie my desun
Out there, beyond the clouds;
Where winds have not yet !>!own,
Where man has not yet ,l?(lllC .
That's where I long to roam
Out in ,pace li es my de tin}
Out there, among the sta.r ,
Where night 1s tore\'cr ruling,
W
litude h soothing ,
Th.i
h fl I 10111'( to ro1m.
G
To
Out t l<

he r ,lup,
h,11 rytrip.
.1 111011,c the ,t.tr, .

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.PACE

SIGHTING

SAUC

Exclusive! from

VIEW

Y IFSB MEMBERS
and Sun'Oundlng Towns

SIGH rING 0. 4--0n the mom
of J ,I 8, 19H in the skies to the southeut
i
at time~ dirt ly over Frankolin, Indiana ap
d thrtt trange object . Their .Bight v.
\\-atched hy a Luge number of men of sound ind and ,h racter. The following i lOm
by C.tpt. Ltt I n, P.urolman Jack W. Moor .1nd
piled from a PolKe report turned
Patrolman Kenneth Rund of the Fr klir ln
Poise Department on Monday morn
ing, July 28, 1lJ'2 at 6:00 a.m. T
,.
c-re w1 n
d by f?Olicemen, civilian au •
at
After n 1fying all proper authorit1e, of
thor1t1es, ,1nd members oi the Um(
the objects no de nite steps were t
by
• or oth rwi e. The report I a.s follow •
There were three objects, on
ri httr than the two mailer objed~. The
larger of the three 5eemed to cast
ll
h ht . Its pattern of Bight seemed
ccp1n track of the two ma.Iler ohjects.
to be that of a circle. It seemed to wa
The two smaller objects cast off a. ,la tmctl 11 ht ol ch ir own, one being an orange hue
,1nd th.: other a rC'(ldi h color. The two s1
r one
1:n
to be in a dog fight all their
o r mce they executed barrel rolh looJ
d ~pm I he m.de turns of 90 degfe'C' and
1' < •rec, withou t lo~ing ,1n)
ot
·d, .&
ell a. d.ark. ing up ,rnd down
if
,tm <one w .ts play111~ with a giant
lne ob ts mad ,in le sorties to the ,outh
completehf ,~ht, to return
,mediatr- • into \ c
a.in, joininA the ocher
in a neatl1
ow of turn . I p
i 5pins.
e estim.1ted their height .u.approxiile their speed \ u1
from an t1ma.ted I 00 miles per hour
an
matelv 1 <
es-t1m,u d
per hour I n v. , a pair ot hrncxula.r It was al
a.n i
re .i.ny exact sh I oth
than that ey
red to ~ round and .1t
s1bilit)
as a sa
were observed tor .1 f" od of fo
hour and 6ft
minutes. Dawn
came ar
, .i..m and .111 ~tars h.id gone ar,,und , ·00 m. At '5 03 a.m. It wa~ bri h d
light-,wJ the three objed\ were still , tble. The1 ,olor did not
,n 1yl1 ht
At 5 : 11 a.m. the larger of the thre(
rro as joined hy the t
; the mailer
f
one at a time disappeared
larger. I
•b,- oran , t
the red. After
co envelope the two smal
,t moY<'d ur nd to the we t out of \ight 1nc
I the three obJect, and ti
.1.r.ince of th l.ir>?er too c-xactly 40 seconds.
m were \erified hy F I rg )lice Dept . < .,mp Atte rbury, Ind Columbus
, ""I: . Seymour '-talr PolH
. I ,reen~hu r~ Poli t- Oep• North Vernon Police
( onm r nllc- P
Dept <
,er \Il le . t te P0 , e Po r F r Wayne, Ind.; .i.nd
I, ,l,'1, JnJ \ir fo,,r .111d {
nd re If "R m<:m r no"

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Louie ~fason11
Ir.,
ind ohject Z-...orth<: 1
f
.1 Juli gr,11
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al,fo rni.i.
I .1 t ul l.os Angeles about 9 08 p.m . on Scp1tl m ,ol,11 rnd rema111ed in a stationary position
.i.:rtl", JhO\ the horizon. It was .1hout ~O feet in

IG HTING NO . <> Alan K. t
:-, tlltd .1 ,h , ,h.iped uhJt
11:11! r ~~
•>~2. It w.i.~ .1 rdlo
tor .11xll,t t ,l.<)nd, It w .1, .11 >ll
<11.11111lr ln,l •r \elm~ dut 1 , h
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ta.ti,e for Minnesota
wne. Minnesota. about 2 :30 p.m, April
2~0 MPH and wh n it as,ended their
·as, hable for ,1hout 45 sernnd, D1re,1 p,lth.

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EXCERPTS FROM A SUMMA Y OF A FIVE-YEAR
FLYING SAUCER IN

TIGATION

I have iust decided to
•
ascinatm
na. Sine
, I have
ile carry
ti t .' pil
en mves
talked t
and have m1.1le

a little over five yea.rs ago oo
,t
bemg the ell known "Flying
the first saucer scare broke out in
money and energy seclcing a solution
&tions I was able to interview several
perts, who had spotted these saucers
strange objects. In addition to these
had sighted these objects throughout
t to many others.

ote a s
rs, and
crested
whic
in Lyn
eefold
big a
ena th
her in m c

cers for the past five yet.rs, t.nd while
led "The Flymg Sau er Phenomena"
,ired to several group in Lynchburg.
rom the very fi rst, my Sighting of &n
utes over the Lynchburg College &d­
morning of July 6, 19 ~1 . has in­
of my reasons fo r stopping my inves­
handle. W e must r~1ze that we are
fascinating. Many of the reports that
k this statement

Some retent tho
landing
n. ThJS
ctn even- ere, for Ion
n,ore repo rt~ of huge weer
perh r~ being stationed ~
el th.it our govern n
r th, \e ry momen t
opt
pro
reg:ird ng interplan t
plJn
ue already here t At
' rO\ ersr or pant or fo r any o
rele1 m~. denying, suppre ·1

u
,ed

an
'"h

.ire that perhaps there will be some
that these Bymg ucers arc still being
n g roup instead of alone, as well u
too, they s«m to come and go at will,
ing about theSt'. saucers because in my

r
mg

rnment i carrying on an educational
ntry Perhaps ~pace hips from other
tryin o prevent religiou conht h
ur government is still
for some reason.

g.mlless, the fu tu re wi ll tell ! In clo mg, I J like to u ea favorite phrase of Charlie
r}, Lyn hburg Coll ege student who aid, • things are really looking up ." I wonder
thing~ aren't look ing DOWN, too , Sooner or later we're bound to find out, and
111
ay 1s, "the sooner, th. better."
H HT OR 'S NOTE · Mr. Faw tt's discu. s1ons and opinions will be found in future

I IE, 'I IO, • 11 • IH I H.
D OI TC
en hlem 10 w e.lf un
r
t JJ 1 1 w
oulJ he ,nttre,t
in
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pl ~ho~ 111>-: m c:,t
Pk
oon ,ls poss1I-: 11

d I-, ,n tere ted in receiv
11 B" eng raved on
lr !er th
emblem
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TO MEET

WE
EDGAR L. PUJNKIITT, B ITIS
England, on December 26, 1903. Cover
sea from 1922 to 1936, 1n<. lud ing the
Norfolk, Newport New , Tampa, Mobi
memories of the proh,bitio Ja
th
Gehrig and other notab , 111 •1 H
• H
friendship a.od still corr ponds with frj
Was re cued from Dunkirk Be c
t
Went to Midd East in 1941 ,
the Briti 8th Army. After f JI
po ted in E&,pt. R.eturned to E
servic.e ov rse
a Captain. N

,■ £J1"'11u~ENT ATIVE-Bom at Bristol, G

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parts of the worlJ u a radio opcr or At
• not 1 New York, Boston, Baltimott,
her ports. H many inter in
J de Dempsey, Babe Ruth, Lou
m t1y y r fc r Anglo-Amencan
.A . Was called to service 111 1939.
li·s tn~r L'lncompri on June 1, 1940.
e ern
rt Camp •
1th
.C:OCNlllUIIIOOed in Pal tine and
then
war after four d a h1I f years
•nal firm
a cleric

He has a wife nd three du

RAF, Diana
1c yearnings
ince
formuion of Gvil Defense
and I tures thr C'ttn1n weekly

Denis 21, now

r writ'
including poetry, plus an unabated
a year or ~ ago, he has become
to indwtri 1 personnel.
Mr. Plunkett has hown gre
valuable fore1
prove to be our

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UN1'f.ED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

American Embassy
1, Grosvenor Square
London, w. 1

In Reply, P lease Refer to

File No.

COURIER

Date :

February 17, 1953

To:

Director, :FBI

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Legal Attache
London, England

From:

a.\ \ft

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Subject: (")11FLilNG SAUCERS"

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Major E. P. Walkers, Provo Marshall at the u. S. Air For ce
Base at Mil denhall, Engl and, telephonically contacted writer on
February 14, 1953, regarding the new or revived interest i n
"flying sauce rs. 11 He stated he did not have any new information
to report but did know of an incident that took place several
years ago and which the Bureau may desire to check.
Thi s incident, according to Maj or Walkers, concerns an article
or story on "flying saucer s " which appeared in a s mall newspaper
w:ith limited circulation in the Township of Jeffersonville, Delaware
Township, Sulliv an Count y, New York . He was unable to recall the
name of the newspaper but was certain it is the only one publ ished
in that area . The story appeared in one of the early 1947 issues or
in one of the issues during the l ast three months of 1946. It was
written by a member of the u . S . Armed Forces and of significance is
the fact that s ubsequent issues failed to follow it up by carrying
additional stories on "flying saucers. " Also significant is the
fact that it appeared in a small and practically unknown newspape r .
Major Walkers s t ates he is merely reporting this for what i t
may be worth and is being forwarded to the Bureau for any action considered appropriate .
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RECORDED ·JJ te:
Dtreotor o/ Spec,al Inveattgatlon,
Inapeotor Gttn•ral
Department o/ the Air Fore•
Th• P•ntagon
r aahtngton es, D. a.
To:
11&•
Troa:
John Fdgar Hoover, Director
F•d•ral Bur•au o/ Inve,ttcatton
SUb'ject:
l'LTING SAUCERS
Th• /ollo10ln9 tn/or■atton ha, been received b11
thta Bur•au µoa tt, repr•a•ntattu• tn London, England, con­
cern,ng -the oopt toned aatwr:
JlaJor E. P. Falkera, Provost lfarahal,
u. s. Air Force Ba••, ~tlde~ha11 1 England,
t11lephonicall11 oon-tacud -.,;,e writer on Februar11 141
1953, regar d tng th• new or revived ,ntsreat tn
"/1'1Jir&g saucsrs." HtJ .t -tat~d he dtd no t ho ve any
new in/ornatton t o rep ort but h• snew o/ an
tncScun~ that took plaoe several years ago which
t ht• Burttou af.gh t dt1str• to cheot.
Tal$on _
Ladd - ­
Ni~boJs_
Tht• inctde nt, a c cordtng to JJaJor Wal tera,
concerns an article or atory on •.t111tng .tauc•r• •
whtch app•ared in a aaall newspaper wtth 1ta,wd
circulotlon located a t Je//•raonut11• 1 Delau~re
Townahtp, Su11,uon Count11, New 1ort. He IDG8
unable to r•ooll th• naa• o/ thtt newspaper but
&oas certain It la the onlg on, publ,ahed in that
area. The ator11 appB~r•d In ~n-. o/ the earl11 1947
ieaue, or In one O'/ t he iaau•• cfurhag the la at thr•• •~aon tha of 1948. I t • • u,rt tt.11 .bJI a ■e111ber o/ t he , "'>
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u. s • .Anted Foro•a and 01i·, , gnt/i cane• ta the /act 1
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that aubaequ•nt ,,auea /oiled,. to /allow i t up bJJ ... ? ~~ ~
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Jlao ••gnl/tcan~ la the /act t"4t ,t appeared••
a ••all and pract,oa11v unt•o•n ••••pap•r•
J/aJor ,alk•r• atat•• he'• ••r•lu reporting
thla /or what It aa~ he ~orth.
Th• obove data•• being furnlah•d to uou ./or
~our ln/oraation and ong action ~ou d•••r• to tat• ,n conneot,a•
therewith, tnoaaucl aa thta Bur•au I• noi conducting anv ln­
ueetlgatlo1&a rela~-,ag to t h• capt,oned miter.

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FLYING SAUCERS
JOHN BAILEY, INFORJIANT

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John~iley ca,lled from Bowie, Maryland, at
to a d vise that he had just aeen a
flying aaucer nea • that city.
He waa vague as to
details and nonresponsive as to where he was calling
from an d as to his residence .
When asked where he
planned to stay tonight , at least, in order that
Air Force might interview him i f deemed advisable,
Bailey said the writer wanted to know too much and
disconnected.
Since no specific information was ,{Urnished
an d since tne call may have been a p r ank, the Air Force
was not adviaed.
Since no identifying info rm.a ti on was
obtained, no attempt was made to_ check Bureau records .

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Director or Sptoial Imestigations
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Da~nt ot the Air Force
The Pentqon
liashington 25, D. C.
From:
John Edgar Hoover, Director
Federal. Bureau ot IDV9stigat1on
Subject:
l'LUOO SAUCERS
.it 9105 p .m. on Uarch 9, 1953, an individual giving his
name as John l3ailey tele~cally contacted this Bureau and advised
he had just seen a tlying saucer near Bowie , Uaryland.. I.ft-. BaJ.ley
was vague as to an;y details in thie matte~ and would not turni8h altl ..
inf'armation conceming his residence or the place froi:t :which he waa "
making his te~one call. Uo additional pertinent :information in
thu m.tter was furnished b,y Ur. Bailey.
The above is being !Ul'llished to you tor your information alXl
assistance in the captioned matter.
no investigation is being conducted
l?Y this Bureau caiceming this matter.
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Tolson _
Ladd _ _
Nicbo)s _
Be-lmont_
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TRANSLATION FRCM SPANISH
Valparaiso, March 4, 1953
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington
United States, North America
Subject:

Individual who may possibly be connected with

0 flying -saucers.

Dear Sir:
In writing to you who directs the influential Office of
Invest,igation which has international connections, I would like to
state the following:
1°-a) I had the opportunity to read in a "Chilean" police magazine, in
the section entitled, "Perfect Escapes," the escape of Dr. LINKE
(42 years old, widower, who some~e in 1950, in London, was arrested
on the 8th floor of the Building of Departments (?). The reason for
his detention was his possible collaboration with VLADIMm VLASAV in
11divulging to foreign goverrments English aviation secrets".)
In his attempt to get away, which occurred between 4 and S
in the morning, a strange thing happened, "when the police came near
the 8th floor, the whole building became dark, the elevators stopped
and the telephones and loudspeakers became silent. When the police
arrived on the 8th floor with their flash lights, they immediately
went off. (Nevertheless, he was arrested at 6 A.M.) .
b) Dr. LINKE escaped from the Kent P.rison ( a few days after
be was imprisoned) and according to statements of the author of the
article, which should be accurate, he did it in the following manner:
Between 12 midnight and 2 A.M. , in rainy weather, nr. JULIUS LINKE
disappeared under the following circumstances: the electricity, elevators,
telephones, and flash lights of the guards would not function.

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According to the article, among other statements of the
guards, was the fact that between midnigpt and 2 o'clock rain fell
in torrents and for a few moments there was complete darkness because
the lights went off. A guard tried to ring the alarm which would set
off the siren, and it did not work; he yelled to another guard but did
not get an answer, and his voice sounded very "distant"; although he
tried to warn his chiefs personally, he could not run or even walk
fast (he had to walk slowly).
2°).-A little before the fall of Berlin, 11the motors of autos and
trucks stopped unexpectedly," without any apparent explanation; after
one hour they succeeded in starting them again. lliring this occasion
it was commented that "something rare occurred in the atmosphere."
3° - About three months ago I read in a local newsp,JBr about the "flying
saucers," with the reservation that perhaps they would be speculating
about the flying saucers; however, it is undeniable that they were
telling the truth. It stated that, according to the article from a
news agency, an officer and his associate who were flying a plane saw
a 11flying saucer." They followed it, but it, as in previous cases,
whirled about and could not be reached. However, the flying saucer new
very high and then it began a rapid descent; it stopped a few seconds
on the officer's airplane, paralizing the motors of the airplane,
(according to statements of the aviators). Later the disk flew very
high and was lcs t from view, and the airplane motors began working.
Any inference from the above statements - according to my
way of t hinking, -- that these facts may appear to be imaginary, is
dispelled by the statements of various witnesses on each occasion, and
therefore they are 11 scientific 11 facts.

If on two occasions paralization of electricity occurred, as
well as what we may call paralization of vital forces (in the case of
the guards), and in said cases 11 the interference of one person, 11
Dr. LINKE, is inferred, why could not Dr. LINKE also be connected with
the other two cases (2 and 3)?
It may be that all this is not in any way related and that the
flying saucers are nothing more than what has been given as a scientific
explanation, but the 11 strange force, 11 about which our ancestors have not
spoken to us in history, we cannot deny.

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I subnit f or your full consideration all I have said, my
only motive being "human interest for human affairs 11 and my desire for
the pr ogress of humanity, for a good future full of dignity and
cosmic evolution.
Without further particulars, I remain
Sincerely yours,

S/ FRANCISCO 'IRONCOSO SILVA
casill a 1857. Valparaiso
Chile, South Ameri ca
P. S.

Please acknowl edge r eceipt of this letter.

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Senor
Director Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Washington.
Estados trnidoa . Norte An.erica.

Referencia:- Persona con poaible ingerencia en 11Discos Voladorea 11 •
Estimado sonor:1:e permito dirigirr e a Ud ., quo dirige una nodero<Ja Oficina de In­
veoti~acion do raierunbre Internacional, para reanifesta.r lo aiguiente.0

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'liizve la oportunidad do loer en una roviata !)olicial 11 chilena 11 , en una.
seccion titulada "Fu.gas Perf'ectaa", la fuga del Dr. Linke ( de 42 afos de
edad, viudo, que a J"'ediadoa do 1950 en Londres fue detenido en tm.Edificio
de Doparte.mentoa, p ricio. l'otivo de deto .cion, !JU poaible .,,artic-~raciol" CO"
Vladi.,,ir 1!1.asav de "divul['.'8.r a goh·1.0rnoa extranI;oros sec-ctoa C:.o .·,.i.acio:n
Inr;lesa") .
En el allar,a.ruirm.t o ."ra 'lt' dotenci6-, (1Jl6 ;c of'oc.i..to entro 04 y C5 brs,t
do la rna.drugade., OC".trrio un 11echo e::trafio lfc11ando J.a :,olic:fa Cvrc ..1 " el G"
pioo, +odo el edific:o quodo a obscuraa y lo~ aoce~Jore fotonidoo como
~'ttlbio~ }~o tolo~onoa y citafonos silenciados . Los polmcias al llo~ar al 8°
pioo con s';s linternas electricas, ostas se ~~ sh·ultanean:ente . (Sin
embareo fue dotenido a las 06 hrs . , al alba) .
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b)
:1 Dr. Lin~e huyo dol prenidio de Kent (a pocos d{aa de ser encorrado)
y ~ogun declaraciono3 dol autor deI art!culo, quo doben ser fidedisnaa, lo
½izo on la oiguiento circuneta.ncia:- =:ntro laa 12 do ' la noche (24 hro.) y
02 hrs . do la ma.na:nn. , en lluvioao d1a desaparecio el Dr. Julius Linko, con
las agravantes de - raralizacion dol alur.1brado, ascensores y tolefonos , no
f'uncionanionto do linternas de bolsillo ( de vi"_;ilan.tea) .
Los vigilantes entre otras cosao declararon - segun el art!culo - quo
entre las 24 y 02 hrs. , arrecio en :;ran forma. la lluvia yon ciertos moran­
tos reino completa 11 obscuridad 11 , los focos se apagaron. Un vip:ilante trat6
de tocar el boton de alanm que ~ace sonar el ailbato de peligro y no f'uncior~
grit6 e. otro viR;ilante y no obtuvo res:::,uesta y au voz era 11 lejana. 11 ; rara avi­
sar personalmente a sus jofeo no nudo correr ni apreeurar la rnarcha (aino
andar en forroa lenta) .
2.9.. - Poco antes de la ca1dn de Berlin, 11 loa notores de autos y car.ri.ones fueron
inoo11ore.damente detenidos", sin encontrarse aparente explice.cion; deonuea do una
hora 88 logro ponorlos en movimiento . So comento en esa oportunidad 11 que algo
ocurr:la en la atm6sfera 0 •

32.- Ha.ran cerca de tree meses quo le! en un ueriodico local , acerca de loo "Dis~
cos Voladorea 11 - haciendo la aalvedad qua tal voz ae habra eopoculado acerca de
loa platillos voladoroa, ::,oro tambien es innegable qua so han dicho verdadea doclarando, ser;un un art!culo de una agencia noticioaa qua, un oficial y au acom­
pafianto quo piloteaban un avion, diviaaron un 11Disco Volador 11 • Lo porsiguieron,
pero esto como en casoo antoriores hizo baatantes piruetas y nose dejo alcanzar.
Sin embargo el Disco Volador so olovo a gran altura, luogo inicio un acelerado dea
censo y ae esta.ciono unos instantes por sobre el avion del Oficial, paralizandole
los motores al avion (segun declaracionea de los aviadores) . Posterior-.::i.ente el
Disco se elevo perdiendoao de vista, f'uncionando nuevamento los motorea del avion.
Doduccion de lo ant~riormente ma.nifastado - segun mi modo de pensar, aue - .
al ucurrir hechos de eat.a !ndole qua parecieran 1itopicoa, ea desmente por lo
manifoatado por varios teatigoa en distintaa cir~unatanoias y por lo tanto son
hechos 11 cient! ficoo 11 •
Si an dos ocasionos ocurrio la paralizacion de la fuerza eloctrica - y di­
gamoalo fuerza vital (en ca.so de vigilantes) - ea deoprenae en dichos caeca la
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ingerencia de una persona." , el Dr. Linke. ;.Poroua no podr!a tener ingerencia el
Dr. Linke, en los otros doo cases, incioos 2~ y 5t?

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Fuedo qua todo eato no t enga relacion y qua loo Discos Voladorea no aoan mas
qua lo que han oxplicado ciertos cient!f'icoa, pero lo de la 11 f'uerza oxtr afia 11 , que
no nos hablan nueatroo antopaaadoa en au hiat.oria, no lo nodomos negar.
Dojo a su ontora conaidoracion todo lo dicho, no guiandomo otro ~otivo qua
intere a hums.no por las cocas hurianaa 11 y aapirando uor el o.rmlio progr eso do la
Htn~nidad, l or un futuro bonigno de dignidad y ovolucion coamica .
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Sin otro particular, aaluda atenta.:mante a Ud .

Francisco Troncoso Silva.
Casilla 1857. Valparaiso.
Chilo. Sud AJ:lerica.
1;ota. :- Ruogo a Ud . contoatarrae de ha.bar rocibido la proaonto .

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Ur. Franci8co~ roncoso
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Dear JJr .
Troncoao:
I want to take ~hi8 opportunity to thank
you for your lette r o/ llarch 4 , 1953 .
The interest which pro~pted you to make
your obseruatton8 avatlable to ae i s ~ t ncerely ap­
preciated . Since your CO'llUilUnioatton may be of in­
terest to another governmental agency, I am taking
the liberty of fo r warding a copy of tt to The Hon ­
orable, The Secretary of the .Afr Force, The l'enta ­
gon, »ashingt on 25, n. a.
Sincerely yours,
John Eagar Hoouer
Director
cc-Foreign Liais ·n Des~, with copy of incoming.
copy by form,
etary of the Air Fo r ce .
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Cleg~-Glavin_
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SUBJECT:

DATE :

DIREJ'IOR, FBI

4/28/53

SAC , SAN JUANLCjSr330)
UNIDEN'lIFI~YIOO OBJECT OBSERVED
11: 30 AM, APRIL 8, 195~0RT
BUCHANAN, PUER'JD RICO:
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On 4/27 /53 a report was received from llajor BRADFORD P . SHUMAN,
Wing Intelligence Officer , Ramey Air Force Base, Puerto Rico .
'lhe substance of this report is as follows:
Five persons observed an unidentified flying object at 11:30
Statements were
taken from all of the witnesses, among whom were three Captains
and a Sergeant of the U. S. Army, as well as a civilian. They
described the object as a bright star or a bright ball of fire .
at a great height, am it was moving rapidl y at the time it was
observed.

.AM on 4/8/53 at Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico.

All of the witnesses observed one RB 36 aircraft which had been
flying in the area at the time of the sighting of this unidenti­
fied object. The Wing Intelligence Officer reported that there
were two RB 36 aircraft in the area at this time. These aircraft
were reported to be flying at 12,000 and 21, 000 feet respectively.
None of the persons from whom statements were taken were able to
accurately describe the object, other than by the statements set
forth above.

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purposes.
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Hrs . Robert H. ' ;(-.on
26 Olcott st'/::tf1-utaa
Watertown , Uassachu8etts
Dear lfrs . 7Jcwtsaon:
I haue recetued 11our letter of llal! 9, 1953,
and I want to thank you .for making the tnformation
contatned tn your letter available to me .
Inasmuch as the information contained tn your
letter comea within the jurtsdtctton o/ the Department
o/ the Ai r Force, I have furnished a copy ~f your
letter to that Department /or appropriate attention .
Sincerely yours ,
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John Edgar Ho over
Dt rector
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From:
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John Edgar Hoover, Director
Federal Bureau or Investigation
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Subject:
FLYING SAUCERS
There is attached for your information and aas1stence
in this matter a copy o! a ael.f-e.xplanatory letter dated !lfay 9, 1953,
received by this Bureau trom 1:rs. Robert H. Davleson, 26 Olcott Ztreet,
Waterto~n, :tlaesachusetts. Nra . Davisson's letter ha3 been acknowledged
by this Bur~su and ahe hae been informed that a copy or her letter
has been referred to the Depart~ent or the Air Force tor appropriate
attention.
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cc - l - Boston (Under Separate Cover)
NOTE:
(Attachment) (FOR INFO)
Bureau files are negative re Mrs . ltobert a .~isson .
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President
Grand Hotel
Mackinac Island, Michigan
Dear l!r . flo odfill:
rour letter of June '80, 1 953,

has been

received in JJr . Hoover 18 absence from the city and
I am ~aking the liberty of acknowledging it3 r~ceipt.
Your communica~ion will be brought to his
,..- atti!ntion promptly following his return to J1a..ahin.gton .

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cc-Cincinnati, with coev o/ lill'C"oming.
ATTENTIO' SAC:
You are instructed to thorouglj;l..y,..
check your files in an effort to determine whethtpr ?'or not the Jlr. Steuenson referred to by corre,svo~e71,J,
has been interuiewed by an Agent of your office. ~You
should also furnish the Bureau any information-riJhichcn
might assist in clarifying the story set forth L:b-y'.
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Sulet results no later than July l!fJ"F,11~53::.0
under caption "llr . ,'I. S. Woodfill, President, Grand :::r;.
Hotel, Mackinac Island, Michigan, Research (Crime c ~ . . }, ~Ii;:}
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Although inquiries regarding such phefuz..meWa ~
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0.,, "l. ~
of this rumor and following rec e ipt of replycg>rol!J, :::. ,
Cincinnati, refer correspondent's inquiry to'(J;he:·AJ,_r=Force.
In 1939 and again in 1940 ,Voodfill invited t ~ .Dtrec~r
to attend the Mi chi gan Hotel Convent ion, and =t>o
t _'}i in~i ta ti ons
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An informant reported that iRJ"ll~ ~
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MLs Ga..Jy
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington, D. c.
Gentlemens
A relative of mine living in Circleville , Onio has advised me of the following
account.
Two years ago a respected farmer living near Circleville saw a lighted object
dancing around flying around in the air near him late at night in a pasture
or fie l d, -- a ~ lyit2£ aa~~e• • In due1time this came to have general knowledge
in the community, and about one year 1ago the story appeared in the Circleville
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newspaper .
Since then he is presumed to have been consulted with representatives of the
F.B.I. , so it is said there , and only three weeks ago or so it is said the F.B.I.
representatives came to consult with him again. This time they broughtpictures
to show the farme r of various types of these flying saucers or space ships that
have been apprehended by the government from time to time, and the farmer was
able to identify one of them as the type of thing he had seen two years ago.
The farmer was told, as the story goes, by your representatives, that the par­
ticular flying saucer he identified is the type that is known to have been flown
down from the planet Mars, and that similar ships have been captured, and that
your agency or the government hold captive one man at least in California who
was taken from one of these things from Mars. This Martian it is understood is
now being taught how to speak English -- in California -- and taught .American
customs . It is said that it is apparent that this Martian comes from a civilization
much more advanced than our own civiliation•• •• and that this account has general ~
knowledge as reported here in that community.
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repute in th' community, prosperous, conservative and of presumed sound mind.
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telling the farmer that the government has captured several 11 f'lying saucers" ,
and that they are from Mars, and that a Martian is being held captive in California.
It would be apparent to me that if the government did have such knowledge , they
would not confide such information to the farme r, - - and moreover that it is too
utterly fantastic to credit with recognition as true . The farmer no doubt saw
a 11 flying saucer" , a light reflection or other light phenomenon such as the govern­
ment has said all such things really are , and not a space ship from Mars or anyother
place in outer space .
I am writing to hopefully secure your advice , insofar as you can properly advise
me publicly as a citizen, of what the truth is in this story. I should l ike to
set my relative ther e straight. Arid I am curious personally to know what the real
story is about this farmer - Mr . Stevenson of the Circleville, Ohio area.
Respectfully yours ,
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COMMUHfCATIONS SECTIOM
JUL ~
1953
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FB) ATLANTA
7-8-53
11-0-2 AM
DIRECTOR, FBI
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FLYING SAUCERS , MR . TOM MCRAE, - ATLANTA CONSTITUTION- REPO,TER,
COMPLAINANT .
THREE FORTYFIVE AM THIS DATE MCRAE TELEPHONICALLY FURNISH
FOLLOWING -FANTASTIC TALE - ASSURING THAT NEITHER HE NOR ANY MEMBER
\ OF -icoNSTITUTION- STAFF HAD BEEN DRINKING BUT HAD WITNESSED THIS
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STORY .
MCRAE STATED EDWARD E. WATERS, ONE EIGHT FIVE FIVE PEACHTREE
R~, NE, TELE ELGIN NINE FIVE SIX TWO, CALLED ON HIM AT NEWSPAPER OFFICE
STATING HE ANDTWO
OTHER COMPANIONS WHILE TRAVELING IN CAR ON BANK-
HEAD HIGHWAY ABOUT MABLETON, GA. ENCOUNTERED THREE SMALL ANIMALS WHICH
THEY BELIEVED HAD LANDED FROM SOME PLACE IN FLYING SAUCER .
WATERS
INFORMED MCRAE THAT AS THEY APPROACHED THE THREE OBJECTS SSTARTING
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MAKING THEIR WAY BACK TO WHAT HE BELIEVED A FLYING SAUCER, THAT TWO
OF THE ANIMALS ESCAPED I N SAUCER BUT THIRD WAS KILLED WHEN HIT BY THEIR
AUTOMOBILE.
OFFICE .
WATERS DISPLAYED OBJECT OR ANIMAL TO MCRAE AT NEWSPAPER
MCRAE STATED ANIMAL DID NOT RESEMBLE ANYTHING HE HAD EVER
SEEN BEFORE BUT LOOKED AS I F IT BELONGED TO MONKEY FAMILY.
ANIMAL
MEASURED AND FOUND TO BE APPROXIMATELY TWENTYONE INCHES LONG, HAD
RATHER POINTED HEAD, LARGE EARS AND SKIN WAS PINKISH.
DUE TO
EARLY MORNING HOUR rfr&iko~~~~LE TO LOCATE SCJENTJ SI TO EXAMINE
ANIMAL BUT DID HAVE ONE OF LEf]lUG VE-rERINARIAN$ THIS CITY EXAMINE IT.
JUL ¼;:t.- 1
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MCRAE STATES VETERINARIAN WOULD NOT COMMIT HIMSELF BUT VET POINTED
OUT HAD NEVER SEEN ANIMAL IN MONKEY FAMILY WITHOUT HAIR AS THIS ONE
l NOR HAD EVER NOTED A DEAD ANIMAL THAT DID NOT TURN PALE AT DEATH .
I VETERINARIAN STATED ANIMAL HAD HAD A TAIL BUT SAME WAS MISSING AND WHEN
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QUESTIONING WATERS ABOUT SAME WATERS SEEMED SOMEWHAJ SURPRISED BUT
IT WAS POSSIBLY CUT OFF IN ACCIDENT. MCRAE ADVISED IHERE WAS BLOOD
AROUND MOUTH OF ANIMAL CAUSED BY ACCIDENT WHICH RESEMBLED HUMAN BLOOD
MCRAE FIRST THOUVHT WATERS POSSIBLY TRYING TO PULL PUBLICITY GAG DUE
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TO RECENT NEWSPAPER STORIES BUT
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BELIEVED HAD THIS BEEN HIS MOTIVE WATE
WOULD HAVE TIMED HIS VISIT BETTER AS THEY WEREv\BLE TO PRINT ANYTHING
AFTER MIDNIGHT .
MCRAE STATED NEWSPAPER WOULD POSSIBLY RUN STORY ON
ABOVE FACTS TODAY.
ATLANTA INDICES NEGATIVE ON WATERS .
FURNISHED IN VIEW OF POSSIBLE PUBLICITY THIS DATE .
BEING CONDUCTED THIS OFFICE UCAB .
ABOVE
NO INVESTIGATION
MATTER REFERRED TO OSI OFFICE NINE
AM EST TODAY.
CARSON
END AND ACK
LINE X SIX
SHUD LAST THREE WORDS BE
WHXX THERE WAS BLOOD
YES THANKS
ALSO LINE 10
THEY WERE UNABLE
YES
SHUD IT BE
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COMMUNICATIONS SECTIO~
JUL ~ 1953
TELETYPE
7- 8- 53
FB~ANTA
11-0- 2 AM
U R GE N T
ftf.CTOR , FBI
FLYLJC SAUCERS,
MR . TOM MCRAE ,
- ATLANTA COMSTITUTION -
REPOHTER,
THREE FORTYFIVE AM THIS DATE MCRAE TELEFHONICALLY FURNISiIFJ
COMPLAINANT .
FOLLO\-J!NG - FANTASTIC TALE - JI.SSURI NC THAT NEITHER HE NOR ANY Mt ·IBE'R
OF
- lcoNSTITUTI ON-
STORY.
STAFF HAD BEEN
DRINKI NC BUT HAD UI TNESSED TEIS
r1CRAE STATED EDWARD E. WJ\TERS ,
ONE
EIC-l!T FIV.E FIVE PEACHTREE
RD , NE, TELE ELGI N NINE FIV[ SIX TDO , CALLED ON HI M AT NEWSPAPER OFF I C[
STATING HE ANDTW O
OTHER COMPA~IrnJS WHILE TRAVELING I N CAR
HE./1.D 'HGHUAY ABOUT MABLETm~,
C'A . EMCOUNTERED THREE SMALL MlIMALS UIIC:{
THEY BELI EVED HAD LANDED FRO~j sor1£
INFORMED r1CftJ\E
rn: BJ\NK-
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1·.AT£l.S
SAUCER,
THAT TtJO
PL/\CL HJ FLYHIC SAUCER .
THAT AS THEY APPROACH.'.:D THE THREE OBJ ECTS SSTARTING
.!/'\KING THEIR WAY b/\CK TO WHA T HE BELIEVED A FLYINC
OF THE 1\NI MAL S ESCAPED HJ SAUC.r::l, BUT THIRD ~-JAS KI LLED 1:JHEN HIT BY THEIR
AUTOMOBI L E .
OFFI CE .
UA TERS DI SPL J\YED
OBJECT OR ANIMA L TO MCRt'\E AT NE\JSPAPER
MCRAE STATE D Af!IMA L DID NOT RESEfrBLE ANYT1U NG HE HAD EVER
SEI:N BEFORE BUT L OOKED AS IF IT BELONGED TO '10tlKEY FAMILY .
ANirlAL
I1EASURED AND FOUMD TO DE APPROXHJATi:: LY TWENTYONE I IJCHES LONG, HAD
RATHER POINTt.D HEAD,
LARGE EARS AND SK I N tJAS PINK I SH .
DUE TO
EARLY MORN I NG HOUR :icf\AC UNABLE TO L OCt TE SC I LNTIST TO EXAM I NE
A:HMAL BUT DI D HAVE ONE OF LEADIJG VETERINARIANS THIS CITY EXAM I NE IT .-

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MCRI\E STATES VETERINARIAN UOULO NOT COMMIT HIMSELF BUT VET POINTED
OUT HAD NEVER SEEN ANI 1AL HJ iiONKEY FArllLY WITHOUT HAIR AS THIS ONE
NOR HAD EVER NOTED A. DEAD ANHfAL THAT DID NOT TURN PALE AT DEATH .
VETERINARIAN STATED ANI MAL HAD HAD A TAIL BUT SAME WAS
1ISSING AND l!HEN
QUESTIONI NG WATER S /\BOUT SAME lJATERS SEEMED S0!1ElJHAT SURPRISED BUT STATE
--r
IT UAS POSSIBLY CUT OFF IN ACCIDENT . MCRAE ADVISED .HERE WAS BLOOD
AROUND t>10UTH OF ANIMAL CAUSED BY ACCIDENT tiHICH RESEMBLED HUi1AN Dl.00D
MCRAE FIRST THOUVHT UATERS
POSSIBLY TRYING TO PULL PUBLICITY GAG DUE
~
TO RECENT NEUSPAPER
STORIES BUT
BELIEVED HAD THIS BEEN HIS r CTI VE t! ATER
• rOULD HAVE TIMED HIS VISIT DETTER AS THEY UERE~BLE TO PRINT ANYTHI!JG
\\AFTEJ'? MIDNIGHT •
'1C:1t E STI\TED NEUSPAPER llOULD POSSIBLY RUN STORY ON
'ABOVE FACTS TODAY.
ATLANTA INDICES NEGATIVE ON WATERS .
ABOVE
FURNISHED IN VIEW OF POSSIBLE PUBLICITY THIS DATE.
NO IN 1/ESTIGATION
BE1Nr CONDUCTED THIS OFFICE UCAB .
TO OSI OFFICE NINE
MATTER REFERRED
AM EST TODAY •
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CARSON
END AND ACK
LINE X SIX
SHUD LAST THREE WORDS BE
YES THANKS
ALSO LINE 10
YES
OK TU
12-11 PM OK FBI WA RD
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SHUD IT BE
mrxx THERE HAS BLOOD
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Uttle
Man
Who

W a sn 't
Edward Watters
and two friends
said they saw
a flying saucer
on U. S. ; hway 78
Atlanta. G and
several s
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creatures r
ing
toward it. They
ran over one
but the other&
entered the sau•
cer and flew off
ln a blaze of
Ught. l\lr. Wat•
ters exhibits
the "man from
Mars" but an
anatomy professor called it
a skinned
monkey.

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ATLANTA+=TWO BARBERS AND A BUTCHER PRODUCED A 21-IWCH LONG "CREATURES
TODAY TO BACK UP THEIR TALE THAT THEY HAD SEEN & FLYING SAUCER AND THRE
ELUSIVE LITTLE MEN AFTER CONSUMING ONE BEER APIECE, |: 4

AN ANATOMY PROFESSOR SAID, HOWEVER, THAT THE a J THE EARTH MEN
SUSPECTED WAS FROM OUTER spate APPEARED TO BE A MONKEY,

THE MEN WERE CONVINCED IT WAS FROM OUT OF THIS WORLD, THEY SAID
THEY RAN INTO IT WITH THEIR AUTOMOBILE WHILE DRIVING ON A HIGHWAY NEAR
HERE LAST NIGHT,

“RIGHT THERE IN THE MIDDLE OF TRE HIGHWAY WAS THIS THING, GLOWING
RED ALL OVER,” SAID EDWARD WATTERS, 28-YEAR+OLD BARBER.| IT LOOKED
LIKE A FLYING SAUCER PICTURE HE HAD SEEN IN A SCIENCE MAGAZINE, HE SAID,

“THREE LITTLE MEN WERE RUNNING FOR IT,* WATTERS CONTINUED, "THEY
ALL JUMPED, TWO OF THEM MADE IT. I HIT THE OTHER GONE,"

WATTERS SAID THE MACHINE SOON ROSE INTO THE AIR AND ZOOMED AWAY,

Be akan WAS NOT MORE THAN WAIST HIGH AND ABOUT HALF AS WIDE AS
— ROAD, \

WATTERS* COMPANIONS, ARNOLD PAYNE, A BUTCHER, AND THOMAS WILSON, A
BARBER, TOLD THE SAME STORY, WATTERS SAID THE ENCIDENT GCCURRED ABOUT
MIDNIGHT AFTER THEY HAD CONSUMED ONE BEER APIECE,

DR. W. Ay MICKLE, ANATOMY PROFESSOR AT EMROY UNIVERSITY, EXAMINED
THE ANIMAL, WHICH HAD BECOME A VICTIM OF AN AUTOMOBILE AcctDeNr,

MICKLE SAID IT LOOKED LIKE A MEMBER OF THE RHESUS MONKEY, FAMILY,”
ALTHOUGH IT MAD NO HAIR.
“IF IT'S A CREATURE FROM OUTER SPACE, THEY HAVEN'T INVENTED ANYTHING

NEWS," HE SAID.
WATTERS DECIDED ‘TO FREEZE THE THING WITH DRY ICE AND PUT IT,
ON DISPLAY,

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EX-103 TO:

FROM:

July 10, .1953

Director o/ Special Inueattgattons
The Inspector General
epartment o • the Air orce
The Pentagon
ashington 25 , D. c.
Jo hn Eagar Hoover., Director
federal Bureau o/ Inve tigation

SUBJECT: (;_ FLY IJ:G_ SA r.ccss

"

The f ollowing jnJormatton waa furnished to the
Atlanta ~ield Office o/ tht3 Bureau at 3: 45 A.M•. on
J uly 8, 1953, by ur. To

'cRce, ,,A tlanta constitu:tion

reporter.. ~r. UcRae stat~~ Hr. dwar d E• atcrs, 1855 •
Peach Tree Road, Northeast, Atlanta., Georgia, telephone
numbe r lgtn 9562, contacted him at the oflice o/ the
''Atlanta constttutton" and aaviscd ,a.s f ollows:

According to Waters, he and two other coapantons,
whi l e t r avelling in an a~ tomobile on Banthead Highway tn
the vicinity of Mableton, Georgia, encountered ~hrec ~mall
animals which the11 bel tevcd had land ed f rom a Jl11tng sauce r.
aters advised as he and his companion approached# the thr ee
aniMla started coking their way back to what was believed
to be a /lying saucer . According ~o
tcrs, two of ,t;1re
animals escaped in the f lying aauc c r but tho third was
tilled when hit by ~he auto~obile tn which aters and his
conpanions were riding.
According to UcRa~, atere displayed the ani al
to hto at the II tlanta constitution''
newspaper offi c e. McRae stated the antnal dtd not r esenble
a n11thtng h e had ever seen befor..'fr. p· t £i-~~K~d as 'though
i t belonged 'to thtt monltey fa mil'IJ.• • tu:co'rd-ihg 'to IJcRae, the
antraal was approztmatel~ 21 inches long,1,~q~ a r ather pointed
he d, large ears and p tnkiat a~inl tb ~ ~ d a~ij't ed because of
t he early &orning ho~r ho u,ga unabl
o loca te a sci entist
to e:i:az:itne t he animal, b:Jt he "didc ave-,-o;;.io 'oY, 1:;he lead trig
veterinarians of Atlanta, Georgia, eromtne it.

w1l.tch had been 'killed
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Mohr- ­
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Te-le-. Room ­
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JJcBoe adv1aed the veterinar£an would not

co1n.n i't 'h'imaalf but the .veter£narian potnted out he had

never seen an animal in the, monkey fam ilv ~ tthout hatr
nor had he ever seen a dead a~tmal that did not turn
pale at death. Accord. •J to cRae, the u~tertnarian
atated t he an hial 1 11 -t i l w:i.a v.,seing am t,.1.. t when he
had questtoned aterc ~bo.t the m,ssing tcil aters had
s~emed s omewhat surprised and indicated tt h(~ possiblu
been cut off tn the accident. McRae stated there w s
blood around the mouth of the animal, which reseobled
h r.nian blood.

At the time JJcRae fu rnished the above tn/orca­
t'£on to the A'tlanta Office -o/ t his Bureau, lie stated
neither he nor any nenber of the ''Atlanta Conatt"tu.tton"
newspaper stat. had been drinking but had witnsssed the
above. McRae etated he / 1.r3t tho ~ght fa·tet-3 . had tried
to p•.dl a P"-bl ta it'll gag tn th ia matter; ho:..;efnr, Lt zoaa
JJcRa.e 'a op:fn ion i f th ts had been a ters ' mo ;, ~ .Je, l'la'ters
would have timed hie uis1t to t h e new3paper of/ ice better
as t'h.e newspaper mas unable 'to print anything on t he story
after midnight. McRae £nf orued the tlanta 0//ico o/ thia
B•t rea:; t ne 'J.tlanta coriattta.t 'ion '1 newspnper would probably
run a story co ncerning the tn/orncti.o n set / orth aboue.
It is noted your o//tce was telephon tcallu con­
tacted on the ~orning of July 9, 1953, by a Ltatson rep­
resentative of this Bureau concerntng tlie aboDe matt~r.
The above ta /u rnia hed / or your information and no in~catt­
gation ia being conducted in thi3 matter by thi~ Bureau.

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July 24, 1953

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Pre8ident
Grand Hotel
J/ackinac Island , Jlichigan
Dear Jlr. "ood/ill:

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Tour 1 et-te r of June 30, 1953, was brought
to "'Y attention upon ny return to the ci"ty, und I
~ant to thank you Jo r making this in/ornati.on available
to me .
I ~ish to advise that the situation which
you discuss in you r letter does not pertcin to any
matter within the inuesttgatiue jurisdiction of the
FBI . Obviously, there/ore, no representative of this
Bureau conducted the interview with Jlr • .SteuenB0Tl wht.ch
you descr i.be relat ~ue to 1 ·,t1 ying saucers . "
Sincerel11 yours,
J.

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Edcar Hoover

John Edgar Hoouer
Di rector

JUL 2 8 1953

cc - Cincinnati
Reurlet July 15, 1953.

Tolson ­
Ladd _ _

Nichols­
Behoonr­
Cle~-­
Glavin­
Hul,o _ _

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Tracy _ _
Gearty­
Mohr- ­
Wi_nrerrowd _
Tele. Room­
Hollom11n ­
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Miss Gandy-

NOTF: JJr. Woodfill 's letter of June 30,__ 1953J, stated that
a farmer named Stevenson of Circleville, Ohi~, ih,ad reportedly
seen a flying saucer c,, nd had been subsequent'Jy ~ teru iewed
on the mat+er by representative of the FBI. ~ y r;- Woodfill
desired to h;no1.p if this were true.
, _ ~ en
Bulet of ,Tuly 9, 1953, to him wc..s an "in-,(J/)sence" reply,
containing,. a note for 6;..C, Cincinnati to d.eter'Rine the basis
of the rumor. Cfncinnati letter of July 15, ~3, indicates
that Stevenso11 w,as 'linte.ruiewed on July 14, ~9~; at t hat time
~tevenson indicated that he hud been inter"iriewed on the
subject by one Jack W, Grant of ColUJJlhJs, Ohio, who made the
statement that he (Grant) hc,,d once been "checked" by the FBl.
Cincinnati ~!!/eeflect no prior interview with the farmer,
who is Brucw enson , ,lural lloute 2, Circlevil.le, Ohio.

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Me~andu'm : uN1TEn1 TATEs GovERNMENT

DIRECTOR, FBI
SAC, CINCINNATI

DATE:

July 15, 1953

(105- 0)

MR. W. ~DFILL_, President
Grand Hotel
Mackinac Island, Michigan
RESEARCH - CRIME RECORDS
ReBulet dated 7- 9- 53.
Sheriff CHARLES RADCL~, Circleville, Pickaway County,
Ohio, advised re is cognizant of 1..,.,flflying saucer" report made by Mr. BRUCE
STEVENSON, Rural Route 2, Circleville ,-Ofi1o. According to Sheriff RADCLIFF,
Mr. STEVENSON reported that a saucer- shaped object bad landed on his farm
some time ago, and this r eport eventually reached local newspapers. In
June, 1953, an i ndividual discussed the matter with Mr. STEVENSON. Sheriff
RADCLIFF advised that t his person d i d not, to his knowledge, r epresent
himself to be an FBI Agent . The Sheriff further declared that he has known
BRUCE STEVENSON all his life and that he is a prosperous , well-respected
l ocal farmer, who is considered trustworthy.

Mr. BffiJ~VENSON , Rural Route 2, was interviewed 7-14- 53
at which time he stated that shortl y after he received some publicity regard­
ing~
re· s
ort of sighting a saucer- shaped object, he was 'Visited by one
JACK .
, who gave his address as Post Office Box 5112, Tri- Village
St ion, Columbus, Ohio. According to Mr. STEVENSON, GRAN!' told him he was
a sal esman of television antennas , and that for over six years he had
been pursuing the hobby of investigating 11 flying saucer 11 reports . He
emphasized that he had no official connection with any part of the Govern­
ment , but stated that he had once been 11 checked11 by the FBI. Mr. STEVENSON
declared that GRANT showed him pictures of "flying saucers" and told him he
was writing a book on the subject, which would be published soon.
A search of too Cincinnati indices revealed no information
identifiable with either BRUCE STEVENSON or JACK W. GRANT.
DOE :VD
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FROM
SAC, Newark
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SUBJECT:
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DATE:
4/12/54
(62- 0)
INFORMATION REG~ING NEW
PRINCIPLES O~ERO- DYNAMICS
ALOIS PIVEC - INFOIMANT
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Enclosed herewith are photostats of parts of two le~rs
furnished by ALOIS PIVEC and his wife , OLGA PIVEC , b oth of 164
Hallstead Street, East Orange, NJ. .
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Both photostats are in· Gennan and concern the development
of a new principle in aero- dynamics and alleged attempts by the
Communists in Austria to obtain this information .
There is also enclosed a blind memo , setting forth the
summary of the information in the letters and the circumstances
under which they were obtained.
This infonnation i s being furnished to the Bureau fo r
whatever action is deemed appropria~e .
The indi ces of the Newark Office are negative regarding
ALOIS PIVEC, OLGA PIVEC and A~OLPH DORl~IG .
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12-21-53
Mr. ALOIS PIWETZ
164 Halsted Str.

New Jersey, U. s. A.

Dear Mr. PIWETZ,

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Your brother will probably have communicated with you about
me as we became acquainted with/ each other at a construction job. I
told him a few things about inventions or utilization. Dear Mr. PIWETZ,
be not angry with me because I am now turning to you. I hesitated such
a long time as my wife does not wish to go abroad. Enclosed I am
sending you 2 inventions, that is, ideas and I leave it to your own
power of judgment whether one or both, or none of these inventions
is suitable. If one seems to be profitable to you, you should apply
for a patent in your own name as the best possible way and enter 'for me
and for yourself 45%each of the ·n et profit and 10% for your brother.
I am giving you entirely a free hand, as you will undoubtedly try to
attain the greatest possible profit.
And now, dear Mr. PIWETZ, I am talcing the liberty of telling
you something about 8ll invention which the entire world wants to have.
(I am only writing the most important f acts.) Before the war I intended
to make a toy, something which f lies, and purely accidentally I di scovered
a hitherto unknown aerodynamic law. I experimented further. I improved
and informed several comrades. They were enthused and emigrated to
South America . There they tried it on their own responsibility. People
were killed and they f ailed t o perfect the incomplete invention. They
approached me a gain. As they were only artisans, 'these flying machines
were, of course, built primitively. The first experiments to fly with
a motorcycle motor attained the result of 250-300 km. Not bad for the
years 1938-391 With a powerful motor they then flew 2600-2800 km.
(hour kilometers).

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After the war they came to me again and t old me about their
misfortune, that about 6($ of all flights had been fatal. To make
it very clear, t hey wanted to f ind out how I construct my f lying
apparatuses, because With a device, which endangers lives,they could
not, of course, appear before the public, and, therefore, all this is
still, so to speak, a private secr et. In .America, this flying
machine is called "flying s aucer," and since among my f ormer cClllI'ades
a quarrel broke out and t hey distrust each other and none of t h em has
the intelligence, which this invention demands, they have not progressed
over there.
I imagine that they have stubbornly adhered to some construction,
that is, become involved in it that they cannot advance. It has taken
me years to reach the point where I can already say with respect to the
construction plan that now the machine is safe for flying. Thereby I
am losing, however, some speed, but, in return for it, safety is secured
and this is the main thing. Thi.s machine is so very simple in its
constructien that, if one gives me an engineer and e:xperts, I can build
this apparatus in 5 to 6 weeks at the most (but only experimentally
for a crew of l to 3 men). Then this machine attains , with an automobile
motor of 80 to 120 h.p. about 700 to 1,000 km. If a firm would exist,
which does not shun the costs, I can, because of the simple construction
of the machi ne, build the first machine immediately in such a manner that
it exceeds the 2000 km. limit per hour.
Because of the new aerodynamic law it is possible without
any diff iculty (everything without propellers ) to reach such speeds.
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which is cheaper than an automobile. One does not need any
starting or landing s trip and one wruld have a travelling speed of
about 500 to 700 Ian. per hour. I believe that .America would be the
most favorable pl ace in the wor ld for it. You will now understand that I
am very anxious to establish contact with a firm which is greatly
int erested in this invention. But as I have no knowledge of English,
it is for me, from the very beginning, an affair which will come to
nothing. If you, dear Mr. PiiVETZ, can s t art the matter, you will not
have done it in vain. I am not niggardly and besides I want to go
to the u. s. A. to r ealize there a still larger project for which I
need co-workers. The circular flying machines shall bring me the money
for my further future plans, for I believe popular flying machines,
according to my model. and besides 100% safe from crash, will be a
gigantic business. I do not know the magnates over there; perhaps
HENRY FORD or an airplane factory, possibly a helicopter plant would
be int erested in it.

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I have received a contract pertaining to license or gratuities and
after my arrival. in the U. S. However, it must be added that I shall
not lay out the money for the passage if sane firm accepts me f or the
construction of the flying machines. But in addition to all that I need someone who lives over there and who knows the English language,
and now I am asking you, my dear Mr. PIWETZ,whether you can
function as my manager as they say in the U. S. A. Well, you know
that the manager receives payment, and I believe that you will
enjoy working with me later on inventions when I am over there.
Incidentally I mention that I took a course as a chemist.(The 11 Do11 apparatuses, later called fog - or rocket-missiles, originated with me
and also many other things. ) I hope that you can decipher my
hieroglyphic script. Such small writing is not in my line. So that
you may see that I am not exaggerating, I declare upon oath that t he
invention, known by the name of "flying saucer, 11 is my own, that I know
the men who are building these machines in South America, and that I
can construct the above-described machine myself and attain at least
2000 km.

/s/ A. DORNIG.
I hope that you will be interested in it.
your communication very hopefully.

I am awaiting

With friendly greetings,
Respectfully,

/s/ ADOLF DORNIG

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ADOLF DORNIG

Waidmannsdorferstr. 80
Klagenfurt - West
Dear Yr. PIVEC,
I have received your letter of 1-12, on 1-19. Many thanks
for your efforts. With joy I have taken cognizance of the fact that
you have already contacted American authorities concerning my invention.
However, I have no great hopes, because I know that with the U. s.
everything is defective, exactly as with the English. - Example:
Already a long time ago I wrote 2 or 3 letters to the U.S. authorities
at Salzburg and I was in Salzburg myself during the past year, but
everything was in vain. - At the most, in r esponse to my letters, some
Russian agent comes; that is all. When I wrote in Switzerland at
first to President TRUMAN and then to President EISENHOWER through an
official bureau, also everything was of no avail. In the end, always
Russian agents come.
In May 1953, a big dirty pig arrived who wanted to
make me believe that he would take me in an automobile to the emigration ·
office for Austrians in SWitzerland. He enraged me to such an extent that
I hit him in the face with my fist. But he had also helpers and I am
not sure how it ended. I awok~,lying on the ground, and all had disappeared.
Several days ago a man approached me at my working place who only pointed
a finger upon me, saying: "Youl II When I looked at him; he quickly ran
away. I could not recognize him, but seemingly he knew me. - But
the English are even more stupid. I wrote to the local city commandant I s
office about my invention (just like to you) but no reply came. When
at one time I accidentally listened to "Radio Canada, 11 I learned about
my statements. Those people said that one had finally succeeded (possibly
Scotland Yard) to obtain exact data on the German flying saucers and
that one would, therefore, establish a research station in Canada with
English experts, etc. I wondered whether the entire world had gone crazy.
I of fer my invention for sale, and those people make such a noise about it1
They will never perfect the machine without my data.. Well, I let you
know that I am somewhat in the bad books here; strictly speaking since 1937,
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in 193(?)7 in public that the corm:nuniat symbols also appear on our
money., the gendarmery arrested me and told me that I was crazy. Since
I repeatedly declared that a 11 red dog11 sits in the government in
complete secrecy., everything has failed. But that since then an
information has always been based upon the word crazy., I do not believe.,
although I know that the communists have always guarded me very strictly.
Furthermore., I accidentally (relatives) discovered the fundamentals
of Russian atom physics (a law of nature., unknown to America) and.,
therefore., since 1933 all my attempts to get into the u. S. A. have
been frustrated in every respect. I cannot journey to that ccuntry.
Since I (relatives) also exactly know the most secret Russian
communications methods (apparatuses) and the system., they are doing their
utmost to prevent me from establishing contact with the U.S. A.
I hardly believe that it will be possible by normal means. I shall not
place myself into an airpl:ane againl The Americans do not know
how many Russian agmts are with them. After I had written to the
Pentagon about my invention., a rejection arrived. From Salzburg I have
never received a reply. Seemingly., the English have lost my address and
when I reported to the local FSS that I can construct the Russian
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On January 12, 19.54, ALOIS PIVEC, 164 Hallstead Street, East Orange,
NJ, appeared at th_;..Newark Office and advised that he had received a letter

from one ADOLP~RNIG, Waidmannsdorferstr 80, Klagenfurt, West Austria,
on about December 20, 1953.
PIVEC stated that the letter requested him to attempt to sell
a number of inventions, which he, DORNIG, had developed. PIVEC stated that
the request was to contact Aircraft companies and Sewing Machine Companies
in the United states an:l attempt to interest them in these devices.
Accor~ingIVEC,
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DORNIG requested that no governmental ag~ncies
be contacted. p
ated that the inventions, 1'hich DORNIG had developed
were new type o
ewing machine and a flying saucer. PIVEC statedJthat he
came to this office because he felt that the flying saucer was of some
importance in the national defense of this country. PIVW st~ed that he
has never met DORNIG but that DORNIG was given his name ~ ' S brother,
[!lITZ, who resides in oraz, Austria, and who is employed at Siemens-Hal~ke
Belggier oasse 11, oraz, Austria. PIVEC stated that his brother workodwith
DORNIG, at one time, and he believes that DORNIG is a chemist or some type
of engineer. PIVEC stated that the contents of the letter seemed fantastic
to him and that if the letter were not written in such an intelligent manner,
he would have doubted DORNIG 1 S sanity. He stated that DORNIG claims to
have sold a new principle of aero-dynamics, which made it possible to
construct a practical flying saucer and, that DORNIG had developed a model
that flies w.i.thout the usual hazards. According to PIVEC, the letter
continues by stating that DORNIG has been in contact with other men through­
out the world, who have been attempting to develop the .s aucer and that he
has been the first to win real success.

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vicinity of ..I,eoben, Austria in 1925 and aITived in New York City on March
29, 1952 from Bremerhaven, German:y-. He is employed at the Public Service
LaboratoTY in Maplewood, NJ.
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NJ, appeared at the Newark Office and advised that she was the wife of

ALOIS PIVEC• She stated that another letter had been received .from ADOLPH
DORNIG, by her husband, ALOIS p!V]X!. She stated that her 1:msband did not
want to furnish the information in this letter to the FBI• She stated that
he was not aware that she was furnishing this information and wished to keep
the interview confidential.
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Mrs. PIVEC stated that the letter received recently by her
husband, from DORNIG, contained information that DCRNIG had been contacted
by communists in Austria, who wished to take him to S"1tzerland in order
that he might further develop his new principle of aero-dynamics. According
to the letter, DORNIG has continued to refuse any offer by the communists
and wished p ~ to increase his efforts to sell DORNIG'S new invention
in the United states.
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German parents in south .Russia•,arid at the time of the German invasion of
Russia, during World war ·r r , she and her f.amily were resettled in Ger~.
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To:
Director oJ Speolal Inv,ati gations
The Inspector q•neral
Department o/ the Atr Force
7'he Pentagon
Washington 25, D. c.
From:
John Edgar Hoover, Director
Federal Bureau o/ ~nueattgation
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April 12, 1954, captioned "Adolph Dorntg" which contains
information /urnished to the Newark o//ice oJ th~a Bureau
bu Aloia Ptveo and hta mi/e, Olga Pivec, both o/
, 14s Hallstead Street, East Orange, New J,~seu. There ts
also attached a translation trom. the German language oJ' the
parts o/ the two letters .fur nished by~Piuec and hta wi/e
to the Newark o//1,ct1.
The Jiles oJ thia Bureau /0,il to rej'lect that
any tnvesttgatton has been conducted bu tht,a Bureau o/
Adolph Dorntg, Alois Pivec, or Olga Pivec. In utew o/
the information set forth in the attached memorandum dated
April 12, 1954, and the translation o/ the parts oJ thB
letters re/erred to heretn, no tnveati ~atton ta con~emplated
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On 6-7-.54, Mr. '.l'HOMAS EICKHOFF, 3721 Tappan Avenue, Cincinnati 23,
Ohio, and Mr. R A L P ~ , 2768 Highland Avenue, Cincir.nati 12 1 Ohio,
called at this office. Mr. EICKfDFF advised he is the operator of a beaut y
salon in the Neave Building, Cincinnati, and llr. ZIMMERMANN advised he is
President of the Zimmermann Packing Company in Cincinnati. Mr. EICKHOFF
did all the talking for the two men and he 1'urn:i.shed the follOl'fing informa­
tion:
On 6-3- 54 an ad appeared in the "Cincinnati Enquirer," a newspaper of
general circulation, Cincinnati, Ohio, to the effect that on 6-ll-S4 a
program would be presented at Taf't Auditorium, Cincinnati, Ohio, on "The
Real Fl.ying Saucer Story." The advertisement which Mr. EICKHOFF exhibited
disclosed no sponsor f or this program and it was only noted on the ad
that tickets f'or the program sold for $2.00 per person and would be on sale
at the Central Ticket Office in Cincinnati.
Mr. EICKHOFF advised that although he belongs to no organization
interested in flying saucers, he has been interested in this subject and
has been interested to the extent that he desired to know the sponsorship
of the program. He stated that he found out .f'ran the Central Ticket Office
that the ad had been placed by IENRY MADAY, 364 West Lewiston Avenue,
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HUNT WILLIA!.IBON. He stated•that on 6-4- 54 MADAY called him back and told
him that there had been a disagreement between MADAY, BETHURUM and
WlLLIAMSON over MADAY' s arrangements for the sale of tickets for the
program and the renting of the hall.
EICKHOFF advised that at this time MADAY said nothing to discredit
either BETHURUM ar WILLIAMSON and indicated that their disagreement only
concerned his placing the ad in the newspaper prior to having the tickets
for the program available in Cincinnati.
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Mr. EICKHOFF, in explanation of his interest in this matter, advised that he had read such books as "Flying Saucers From Outer Space,"
written by DONALD E. KEHOE, retired major, u. s. Marine Corps, which book
was published by Harper's Publishers, and a book entitled "Flying
Saucers Have Landed," by GEORGE ADAMSKI, which book is published by
Werner...Lowery Company in England, and is distributed by the British
Book Center in New York City. He said that he has also heard broadcasts
by persons he considers reputable news commentators, such as WALTER
WINCHELL, FUL'IDN LEWIS, JR., and FRANK EDWARDS, to the effect that
reliable persons have reported observing flying discs or saucers. He
said contrary to these reports, the u. s. Air Force has denied the ex­
istence of the flying saucer and he felt that persons such as TRUMAN
BETHURUM and GEORGE HUNT WILLIAlfiON, in presenting a program such as that
contemplated, were either truthful or they were frauds. He stated that
if they had a true story to tell, then he felt it was of such nature
that it should be given as wide a distribution as possible, so that the
people might learn the true facts regarding fiying discs. He said,
however, if their story was not true, then the holding of such a
meeting as was contemplated would be a fraud on the general public.
He estimated that such a meeting in Cincinnati might draw two thousand
people, which, at $2.00 apiece, would result in a $4,000.00 take for
the promoters.

To identify TRUMAN BETHURUM, Mr. EICKHOFF had with him two copies
of the magazine "Valor," which be stated he got from BETHURUM, this
magariine being self-identified as the "Golden Times Weekly, 11 published
by Soul Craft Chapels, Post Office Box 192, Noblesville, Indiana. The
two issues which Mr. EICKHOFF had with him were numbers 15 and 16 of
volume 6 of the publication, the number 15 being dated 2-6-54 and
number 16 being dated 2-13-54. The number 15 issue contained an article
concerning TRUMAN BETHURUM, in which he is identified as a truck driver
from Redondo Beach, California, and it refers to an article dated
12-31-53, which appeared in the -Daily Breeze," a newspaper at Redondo
Beach, California, which allegedly contained a description of an encounter

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which TRUMAN BETHURUM had with a crew of assumed space explorers under
the supervision of a ravishing woman col!Dl1andant in the Nevada desert.
The article also reflects that TRUMAN BETHURUM allegedly was aboard
flying saucers on eleven occasions~ At the bottom of the first page
of issue number 15 there appeared in what ~x. EICKHOFF stated was the
handwriting of TRUMAN BETHURUM the statement "This is a true story, a
factual experience -- TRUMAN BETHURUM."
The above mentioned article in ''Valor• also reflected that TRUMAN

BETHURUM is 55 years of age and that his resid~nce address is 519 North

Gertruda Avenue, Redondo Beach, Calit'ornia.

Mr. EICKHOFF also had with him a letter addressed to TRUMAN BETlilJRUM
from WILLIAM GILROY of the Saucers Resear ch Foundation, which letter re­
flected that that organization was holding a three-day convention June 4,
5 and 6, 1954 at the Carth.cy- Circle Theatre in Los Angeles, California,
and that it had invited TRUMAN BETHURUM to this convention t o say a few
words concerning his experience. GILROY was identified in this letter as
business manager of Criswell Predicts Your World of Tomorrow, 1922 North
Highland, Hollywood 28 , California.
Mr. EICKHOFF reiterated that he felt IETHURUM1 s story, if true,
should be given wide publicity, but that if the story was false , t hen he
should be prosecuted f or fraud. He stated that he first took bis in­
formation to the Air Force in the person 0£ Lieutenant Col onel JOHN O•mmA orTr"i'gfi'E=Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, whom EICKIDFF visited
persona.lJ.i.j.t 0 1 M'AID. 1 s home in Fairborn, Ohio, on Sunday> 6-6-~u.
llCKHOFF indicated that he asked Colonel 0 1 .MARA if there were such things
as flying saucers and if IETHURUM' s story could be true, and he said
O'MARA denied that there was such a thing as a flying saucer and indicated
to him that DONALD E. KEHOE , the author of "Flying Saucers in Outer
Space" was a fraud and that information is available in Washington that
KEHOE is a fraud. He said he was advised, however, by Colonel 0 1 MARA
that the Air Force could take no action with respect to BETHURUM or WILL­
IAMSON.
EICKHOFF continued that it was his intention to aid in the
promotion of a meeting for BETHIBUM in Cincinnati.
He advised that the
original meeting schedul ed for June 11 had been cancelled, and that he
felt this meeting had such important information for the people as a whole
t hat he was going to make every effort to make the meeting one of national

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significance. - He said he intended to invite to the meeting all nationally
prominent news commentators. He intended to try to get radio time to ad­
vertise t he meeting but he did not wish to participate in this matter in
any way if it would violate security regulations in any manner, or if
BETHURUM and his associates were in any way fraudulent. He stated that he
so inf ormed BETHURUM, WILLIA1JSON and Mr. MANSPEAKER at the luncheon meeting
which was held at t he Terrace Plaza Hotel on 6-7- 54. They informed him
that they were not afraid of an investigation; that BETIIUR(JMt s story was
factual, and that they had no objection to EICKHOFF' s advising Government
authorities regarding it.
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Mr. EICKHOFF stated that his report to this office was part of hij
plan to inform all the Feder al agencies he thought should know about the
activities of ~THURUM. He advised that in line with his contemplated v
plans that on ~ - ~ ening of 6-7-.54 there was to be another meeting at he
home of L. Vtf'J :>TRINGFIELD, 7017 Bri.t ton AvenuE!_, Cincinnati 27 , Ohio, at
which meeting there would be Mr. STRINGFIELD, WILLIAMSON, MANSPEAKER,
BETHURUM, RALPH ZIMMERMANN and Mr. EICKHOFF. He said at this meeting
they would pl an a method of operation and make arrangements for this
meeting of national significance. He said he intended to set the date of
the meeting far enough in advance so that if any Governmental agency
determined that there was fraud involved that agency would have sufficient
time to act prior to the holding of the meeting. He advised he intended
to keep a detailed record of all actions taken by this group, and that he
would voluntarily furnish such information to the FBI.
EICKHOFF advised that he had not lcno,m and had not met either
BETHURUM, WILLIAMSON or MANSPEAKER prior t o the events described above.
He said that GEORGE HUNT WILLIAM50N identified himself as an archeologist
and a writer for the magazine "Valor," who resides in Noblesville, Indiana.
He said that MANSPEAKER, whose first name he did not know, is also
connected with "Valor" magazine in some way.
He was asked as to what interest "Valor" magazine has in BETHURUM,
and whether BETHURUM was sponsored by any other organization. He advised
that he did not know the interest of ''Valor" magazine in BETH1RUM, and
so far as he knew, BETHURUM was acting on his own and had no organizational
affiliations or sponsorship. He was asked as to what disposition would be
made of receipts from a large meeting and he advised that he did not know
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BETHURUM had been on tour for some time and that the meeting scheduled
for Cincinnati originally on 6-11-54 was to be the beginning of a new
series of meetings.
The files of this office contain no information which can be
identified with THOMAS EICKHOFF, TRU¥,AN BETHURUM, GEORGE HUNT WILLIAMSON,
J. H. STRINGFIELD, and Lt. Col. JOHN O'MARA.
The indices reflect that by letter dated 2-7-52, Indianapolis
file 61-5, the Indi anapolis Offi.Ce advised the Cincinnati Office under the
caption of "Silver Shirt Legion of America, Inc.; Internal Security - X,"
that the Silver Shirt Legion of America, Inc., whose leader is WILLIAM
DUDLEY PELLEY, was at that time operating under the name ofSoul Craft
Press, 111th headquarters and printing facilities in Noblesville, Indiana.
With regard to RALPH~, the indices of this office reflect
that as of J~, 1942, he was general manager of the Zimmermann Packing
Company, a mechanical packing firm at 139-141 West Fourth st., Cincinnati.
No further action is being taken in this matter by this office,
and the foregoing is for the Bureau's information and for the information
of the Los Angeles and Indianapolis Offices.

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RECORDED . 3 Director, FBI ( 62- 8.3894)

June 22, 1954

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TRUMAN BETHURUM;
FLUNG DISCS
c'l.).2.'l MISCELLANEOUS - IriFOHMATION CONCERNING
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Reurlet 6/8/54.
You are instructed to recontact Thomas Eickhoff, referred to
in your referenced letter and advise him this Bureau has no
jurisdiction concerning the investir.ation or matters relating
to flying discs and that the United States Air Force has such
jurisdiction. You are instr ucted to advise him this Bureau cannot
approve or disapprove or his activities in connection with this
matter and that the placing of this Bureau on notice as to his
activities will not e:xonerate him in the event he engages in any
fraudulent or criminal activities .
You are instructed to furnish the information set forth
in your referenced letter to OSI locally and to the Bureau in a
memorandum suitable for dissemination to OSI headquarters.
NOTE: Thomas Eickhoff, Cincinnati, Ohio, advised the Cincinnati
office he is interested in fiying discs and has r ecentl y met several
persons who claimed uO have had experiences with flying discs . He
stated he intended to assist such persons in arrangi ng for public
meeting in Cincinnati, at which matter s rel ating to f l ying dis cs
will be discussed and that he expects the meeting will result
in a "four thousand dollar take. 11 He advised he believed the
experiences alleged by the persons referred to above and that those
persons would participate in the meeting. He stated he had been
advised by the Air Force that it was it ' s opinion claims made by
the persons referred to above concer ning flying discs and their
experiences with same were fraudulent . He stated he wanted t o
put all federal agencies on notice in order that they could act to
prevent the pl anned meeting re flying discs if it was deemed necessary
by the Government.
Tolson_ _
Boardman_ _

EHM:egp RC;I/

Nichols_ _
Belmont_ _

Glavin,_ __
Harbo._ __
Rosen_ __

Tamm_ _
Tracy_ _

Mohr_ __
Winterrowd_
T ele . Room_
Holloman_ _

Miss Gandy_

JUN 221954
MAILID 17

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DIBEC'roR, FBI
SAC, SEATTLE
REPORTS ON ALLEGED SIGHTING OF SUBMARINES,
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PARACHUTE LANDOOS, FLASHING LIGHTS, ETC.
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It has been the experience ot this o.ftice that during thie season,
f'l'Olll now until winter, there is received a considerable nl1Dlber of alleged
reports on sighting ot submarines, tlaehing lights, parachute landings,
flying saucers, etc. In everr iriat&nce when such reports are received,
the 1.nfomation ie inlllediately disseminated to DIO, lJ ND., U. s. Na'fTJ
OSI, USAF; and R-3, U.S. Arr,q..
Inamuch as Seattle is the District Headquarters £or the Intelligence
Agencies in the PacU'ic Northwest, reports received, usual.ly .t'rom the USCG,
concerning incidents in the state o.f Oregon are imm.ediatel.7 reported to
that ot!ice as well ae the Intelligence Agencies.
Many' or the reports are of a nebulous type, impossible ot corroborating, \/'
and of doubttul authenticity. Some, by preliminaey inquiey and eT&luation,
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proTe to be without foundation. HoweTer, as stated abo-n, reports of this
type are ilaediately disseminated to the Intelligence Agencies without
g
eTaluation, followed by a.d.ditional information as obtained.
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This office has no control of the dissemination or these reports
on a "spot" basis by the local intelligence ottices to their Headquarters
1n Washington, D. C. The Bureau will recall the widespread dissemination
ginn b7 the military: agencies of 11Radio Message March lJ, 19.53, Interpreted
as Calling for Mobilization of Ccalltm l5t Part111 (SAC Letter #23, dated
3/Jl/53) •
The purpose or this letter is to advise the Bureau that in all
instances immediate dissemination is made of all urmsual incidents that
appear to haTe any military significance. This office also aota as a co­
ordinator on all reports to be certain that a.11 interested aaencies are
cognizant.
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The Bureau ma:r be assured that it will be kept advised or all
aigni!'icant incidents as they arise but will not be bothered with eTery
trivial incident that occurs unless instructed.
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REPORTS ON ALLEGED SIGHTING OF SUBMARINES_,

PARACHUTE LANDINGS, FLASHING LIGHTS, ETC.
ESPIONAGE

SAC,_ SEATTLE
6-1~-54

OSI advises us that they have no interest whatsoever
themselves in connection with theae matters and that Operations
of the A~r Force doesn 1 t even advise them. Colonel S. W. RAYNOR,
District Commander, OSI, states thst there is an evaluation at
Wright -Patterson Field where the data is correlated, that the
reports are handled from the Air Poree here to that point in a
routine fashion and that OSI gives no credence whatsoever to it
because they have never had any previous experience of any kind
as to anything arising out of the situation.
There is attached hereto a copy of a communication
marked "CONFIDENTIAL" requesting data concerning the situation
as well as several recent publications, some of which are issued
by the Air Force itself. It is the opinion of Colonel RAYNOR
that the releases are a poor thing and create mass hysteria, but
he says he has nothing whatsoever to do with the situation.

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5677 North Laa Caaas Avenue
Chicago 80, Illtnoi~
EX.-112 Dear Hr. Gund€rson:
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I 3tncerely apprectate the intereat which
pror:ipted your letter o/ June 21, 1954; however,., I
co not in a position, ao a matter of policy, to
conment regardtng the booJ, you
cmt1,oned etnce i t
does not deol wtth a matter within the jurtedtctton
o/ the FBI.
It to suggested that you consider the
cdui ability o/ co~municating wtth The Honorable, Tho
Secretary o/ the Air Force, The Pentagon, ashington
85, D. c. , for whatever information he can gtue you
along the lines of your tnquirieo.
S tnoerely your.,,
John Edgar Hoover
Di rector
Tolson~
Boardman_
Nichols _ _
Sellnont_
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Glavin _ _
Harbo_ _
Rosen_ __
Tamm,_ _
Tracy_ _
Mohr_ _.
'lincenowd_
Tele. Room _
Holloman_
Mis windy _
NOTE :
(Jor respondent dest•t"ed t7l.f"11latujn concerning the
book "Flyi.ng Saucers Have Landed" by Desmond Leslie and
George Adamski.
GEM: jas: bnij,.,.P_,
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C.OMM - FBI
JUN 2 518!:>4
MAILED 31

Federe.l Bureau of Investigation,
Washington, D. c.
6/21/54
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Gentlemen:
A book was publiBhed in 1953 by
Desmond\Leslie and George Adamski
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1:''Flying Se.'l.,cers Have_J.anded11
Publishers - The British B:>ok Centre,
Mew York City.
a is this book tact or fiction, are there
Flying Saucers from other planets landing
on the eartha Has the story told by George
Ad.au.ski about his contact with the man from
Venus any f'ounds.tion in tact?
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Please answer, many thanks,
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Josep«m1derson,
5677 N. Las Casas Avenue,
Chicago JO, Illinois.
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