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RRP003IXGS 8/11/1274186 0062 83894 Class / Case # Sub Vol. HQ - HEADQUARTERS 302 Serial # 343 FBI - CENTRAL RECORDS CENTER it nf Justire FROM OR ADDED TO THIS FILE) *62-HQ-83894-7* SERJALS 302-343 62- HQ-83894 COPIED F DI ĐR B8 108 3Y BUREAU 4300 COMTEBE FOR P A JAN 191979 INVESTIGATION SECTION 7 1078 Vc10 1/CY AB 1191+1 2mg Suil - 322, 320 COPIED FOR FOIPA APR 19 1877 BY R348 1 BY FIlie IP. A ED FOR SERIALS SECTION deral 34/3 COPIED FOR DO NOT FAIP A USE CADESTIROMG LTHIS "FILE 1760 FOIPA # 993087 Transfer-Call 421 Declassification authority derived from FBI Automatic Declassification Guide, issued May 24, 2007. AHAw-WALKER 18-13553

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COPIED FOR FOIPA BERTALS GESTERS PULA 222 COMPUTER DATE 342 Richard Toront 247,191 322 Ranfla 3184189/18/21 13

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Toleon Mr. • LA FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE COMMUNICATIONS SECTION AUG 9 1952 P eughlin Mohr Mr Winterrowd Tele. Room Mr. Holloman Miss Gandy FBI SAVANNAH 8-9-52 6-46 PM EST WED DIRECTOR, FBI URGENT Brityan FLYING SAUCERS, SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT, AEC. SECURITY OFFICE OF 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 OF SPEED AND TRAVELING IN A NORTHEASTERN DIRECTION 62 - 838 94 302 RECORDED - 68 SCHLENKER ACK AND HO L D • 7-48 PM OK FBI WA NRB Sc ..... Cepi 783 53 AUG 1952 n Menninh

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REC'D BELMONT B. I. 10 182d 8 39 PM '52 Reid 8111/52 9.39 AM '52 REC'O ESPIONAGE 6: S DERT.OF JUSTICE S. DEPT. 09: PuG 11 / 32 PM '52 RECEIVED FBI COMMUNICATIONS AUG 9 7 48 PM °52

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August 11, 1958 RECORDED - 119 INDEXED 119 Mr. Edmond J. Kane Mauston, Misconsin Dear Mr. Kane: 894-303 Your letter dated August I, 1952, has been received, and I appreciate the interest which prompted your bringing your obseruations to my attention. mit Inasmuch as the matter of the flying saucers is being investigated by the United States Air Force, I am taking the liberty of forwarding a copu of your letter to the Director of Special Investigations, The Inspector General, Department of the Air, Force, The Pentagon, Washington, D. C. If you have further obseruations along this line, would suggest that you may wish to com- municate directly with him. Sincerely yours, Ladd Glavin Laughlin Mohr Tele. Rm Holl oman Candy_ John Edgar Hoover Director Copy by form to Air Force Intelligence. Special Agent Samuel Hardy, BOD 3-28-25, GS-12, $8760, assigned to Minneapolis. Special Agent Clinton N. Stein, dOD $10,800, assigned Division II as inspectot 51-6-31, GS-15, RHD: grimpo Se HOO SHINE 0303038 ZS. Nd 92 + зуди 75. Nd 8S 21 21 90H MAILED AỪG 1 9 1952 PE! B2 AUG 2 0 1952!

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553: 01: 11.001 RECEIVE BAIL HOUg B T 4. S DEPT OF JUSTICE 1-32 PM 5 20840 12-0 1.06167 LoLu 600- 240-0-311 19-12' 52-151

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Mauston, Wisconsin, 1 August 1952 Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, Director FBI Dear Sir: martington, b. Flying • Fbying SAUGERS As a retired member of the St Paul Police Force and having had numerous pleasant contacts with Agent Clintonstein and Samy Hardy, I take the liberty of an opinion that came to me that the flying saucers scare seems possible that the released energy of exploded Atomic Bombs could be soaring around in the atmosphere. you can channel this thought to the proper authorities "and cer- tainly would appreciate your comments on this thought. I am a Veteran of both World War #l 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, Wisconsin 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 con- ments. N Yours very truly, es Edmened f. Nane Edmond J. Kane Mauston, Wisconsin 1952 EXPEDITE CC: Personal file RECORDED - 119 162-83894-303 AUG 6-71952 11 Ur try PERSONNEL

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AUG. 1 9 1952 MR. JONES ANG 6 2 55 PM °57 RECEIVED F B I U S DEPT OF JUSTICE

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August 12, 1952 Mrs. Ora A. Tygrett c/o Lou Merlaw Farm Rural Route No. 1 New Palestine, Indiana Dear Mrs. Tygrett: FLyiNg SAuCERS Your letter dated July 31, 1952, addressed to the War Department, c/o Tederal Bureau of Investigation, has been received. Your interest in furnishing your observation in this regard is appreciated. In view of the contents of your communication which also appear to be of interest to the Department of the Air Force, I have taken the liberty of furnishing that Agency a copy of your letter. Sincerely yours, John Edgar Hoover Director RECORDED-114 TOC: jat INDEXED-114. 162-13814-304 AUG 14 /1952 80 Tolson Ladd NIchoIn Belmont Clogs Harbo Rosen Tracy Laughl 1n Mohr Tele. Rm. Holloman Candy * 73 COMM - FBI AUS 12 150 MAILED 20 68 AUG 22 1952 HODS

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Date: August 13, 1952 To: Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25, D. C. From: John Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Subject: FLYING DISKS There is attached a Photostat of a self explanatory letter dated August 5, 1952, at Pontiac, Michigan, received by this Bureau from MT. W. #. Jennings, 3096 Hazelmarv, Zone 17, Pontiac, Michigan, relating to the captioned matter. Mr. Jennings' letter has been acknowledged and he has been informed that a copy of his letter has been furnished to your office for appropriate attention. No further action is contemplated in this matter by this Bureau. A trad NOTE: ment RECORDED - 11 EX. - 69 162-23894-305 AUG 15.1952 80 $ There is no record identifiable with Jennings in the files of the Bureau EHM: Kc 12 PM 352 Ladd Nichols Belmont Cless 01avin Harbo Rosen Tracy Laughl tn Honr Tele. Rn. Hollost Candy MAILED 3 SAUG 2619525

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RECEIVE -MAIL N90P B T HIS DEPT OF JUSTICE. UG 1S 1I-26 PM *5. L 650.01% HECOUDED - IT

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NION Date: To: Er om: August 13, 1952 Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25, D• C• John Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Subject: FLYING DISKS There is attached a copy of a self explanatory letter dated July 31, 1952, received by this Bureau from Vr. Benedicto Romero, 1647 Park Avenue, New York City, relating to the captioned matter. Mr. Romero's letter has been acknowledged and he has been informed that a copy of his letter has been furnished to your office for appropriate attenti on. No further action is contemplated in this matter by this Bureau. At ech NOTE: RECORDED - 11 EX. - 69 162-83894 - 306 AUG 15 /1952 80 can Bureau files fail to reflect. any Sin fermation be identified with Mr. Romero. that EHM: kc Tolson tadd Nichols Belmont] Clegs Clavin tracy Laugh11 Nohr Tele, Ra, Nolloman Candy_ MAILED 4 AUG 1 4 1959 COMM - FBI 3 AUG 2 6 1952

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svne ce iaes REC'D-TOL SON'S OFFICE RECEIVED 5 21 520м QUG 13 S DEPT OF JISTICE U AUGERH ORUIE NH 52 NOey es 0 8. 1oy5 VECONDED - 1T

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Date: To: From: Subject: August 14, 1952 Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25, D• C• John Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Inuestigation FLYING DISKS There is attached a copy of a self- explanatory letter dated August 1, 1952, received by this Bureau from Mrs. Fred Haufe, 606 Walnut Avenue, Fairmont, West Virginia, relating to the captioned matter. Mrs. Haufe's letter has been acknowledged and she has been informed that a copy of her letter has been furnished to your office for appropriate attention. No further action is contemplated in this matter by this Bureau. RECROD - 612 - 73874 - 30 7 NO TE: - Bureau files fail to reflect any information that can be identifiedwith Mrs. Haufe. BHI: KO Ke Ladd Richols Beinont Clers Barbo TH 53 AUG 261952 Tele. Rm. 15. Md 05 V AUG 1.4.1050 соми -гві

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RECEIVE BAIL ROOK FBI. H. S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE ÀUG 1 4 5 15 AM '5 16N91 3560 1012 100 1300 BECUEDED - 17 L 100110

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SERVICE UNIT 4-22 a Supervisor SEARCH SLIP Subj: Susa. Fre i Staufe Room-3 708 Exact Spelling All References _Subversive Ref. Main File Restricted to Locality of Initial Date & FILE NUMBER SERIALS Initialed

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- STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO • AR. R. T. HARRO RO DATE: August 8, 1952 Tolson FROM : C. F. DOWNING FID Ladd Clegg N Glavin Nichols SUBJECT: ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION WRITTEN Rosen IN GERMAN LANGUAGE RECEIVED BY [racy "CINCINNATI ENQUIRER" PERTAINING TO "FLYING SAUCERS" ammont Mohr SECURITY MATTER - X Reference is made to a letter from the Cincinnati Office dated August 6, 1952, submitting an anonymous letter in German concerning so-called "Flying Saucers." Nease_ Candy ugan Attached are 7 copies of a translation of this German material prepared in the Cryptanalysis-Translation Section. Cincinnati. No reply has been made by us to the August 6, 1952, letter from CHon RECOMMENDATION: That the Domestic Intelligence Division review the Cincinnati submission and accompanying Bureau translation, for appropriate handling, noting particularly a suggestion in the last paragraph of the Cincinnati letter to consider making this information available to other Governmental Agencies. 62-83894 RECORDED - IWN: jen EM INDEXED - 67 62 - 83874 - 3085-24m MAttachment y 3 13 AUG 20 1858 ENC 58 SEP 2 1952 EX. - 73

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J825 RECEIVED-HARBO Auc 28 10 02 AM °52 F BI LABORATORY DIVISION AUG 1 8 1952 AuG 11 9 56 AM '52 REC'O ESPIONAGE BriS S DEDI. OF JUSTICE

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TRANSLATTON FROM GERMAN Flying Saucer, a weapon tested in 19ll, which is probably now being produced in series, and at this time causes a great stir, is a V-weapon which has a round body similar to a disk having a diameter of about 48-50 m. On the outer ring it has about 45-50 autonatic circular nozzles which after the ignition of the disk circulate around a plexiglass sphere in the center in which the measuring and controlling devices for long-distance steering are located. In the sphere is still sufficient space for aton bombs. These weapons are in Russian hands and can have an effective range of 30-35,000 km. The construetor of V-weapons RIEDEL in Germany stated that it concerns a typical V-weapon on which he had worked himself. I an sure that the truth is better than a panic among ignorant people. H. SCH. "TRANSLATED BY: FRIEDRICH G. NEUHAUSER: bad AUGUST S 1952. OPIES DESTROYED 270 NOV 19 1964 62 0 2514 308

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9) Date: To : August 20, 1952 Director of special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25, D. C. John Idgar Hoover, Direetor Federal Bureau of Investigation FLYING SAUCERS From : subject: APPROPRIATE AGENCIES AND FIELD OFFICES ADVISED BY ROUTE SLIP (S) OR_ DATS 9/1172 There is attached a communication which was enclosed with a letter dated July 29, 1958 from Mr. John Gallowal, 17 Clifton Place, Brooklyn 5, New York, relative to the captioned matter. Nr. Calloway'e letter haa been acknowledged and he has been informed that this communication has been furnished to your office for appropriate attention. No further cotion ta contemplated in thie matter bu thia Bureau. MAILED 4 AUG 2 1 1952 COMMS FBI SECURITY INFORMATION - # CC: MT. E. H. Mossburg, Room 3708 CRD: buko RECORDED - 161 162, AUG 2/5 1852 lalamfiel 204) 9427 RECEIVE 20 HUG ST 309 8 3 EX-18 SEP 31952

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9245 SPiece a COWWE LBT VAC S7 9080% RECEIVEU-MAIL ROOM F.BI I1 S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE Auc 21 8 08 PM "52 атть (2) 0в DATEED BABORDINE VAD BIETD CELECEA VUSKOLKIVIE VORACIER

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Director, FBI SAC, San Diego (100-8565) BORDERLAND SCIENCES, RESEARCH ASSOCIATES San Diego, California; MEAD LAYNE - Director; MAX FREEDOM LONG - Director 8-18-52 FLYING SAUCERS Reference is made to San Diego letter dated 8-5-52 concerning the captioned matter. For the additional information of the Bureau, there is being trans- mitted herewith one copy each of the following which were made available to me by FRANCIS OHM, who is a member of the captioned organization: ]. Mimeographed letter consisting of four pages addressed to His Excellency, The President of the United States. 2. Mimeographed announcement consisting of three pages entitled "For Information of the Public - and the Sake of the Record - A Synopsis of Important Data". Enclosure (2) JiS i jec 3 KICK tiller 162-83894- NOT RECORDED 147 SEP 3 1952 5 SEP 101952 ARIGINAL FILED IN 62 - 97814

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August 22, 1952 24-5 10 RECORDED - 88 Мт. Hoffmeye Route 3 Jackson, Minnesota INDEXED - 88 Dear Mr. Hoffmeyer: EX. - 73 Your letter postmarked August 15, 1952, together with enclosure, has been received, and I want to thank you for bringing this matter to my attention. Inasmuch as the contents of your communi- cation do not reflect any utolation within the jurisdiction of this Bureau, I am unable to comply with your request. I an taking the liberty of forwarding a copy of your letter and your original enclosure to the Director of Special Investigations, The Inspector General, Department of the Air Force, The Pentagon, Washington 25, D. C., since these matters may be of interest to that agency. Sincerely yours, Tolson Ladd Nichols Belmont Clegs. alavin Harbo Rosen Laughl si Mohr Tele. Rm Holloman John Edgar Hoover Director Copy of incoming to Dept. of Air Force. In view of correspondent's Reference to a "steady white light" circling their farm his letter whick is being referred to the U.S. Air Force branch bitterested in matters of this type. Correspondent's enclosure was + sample of what appeared to shredded thin strips of tin fort. s LH: mnf : ns MAILED 1O AUG 2 2 1952 SEP 8 1952 COMM-FBI

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RECEIVED MAIL ROOM F BI B S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE Auc 22 5 59 PM '52

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Lackson Minn Lugs 3, 1952 J. Edgar 1 Ran burn of threate tin. Was Affenger Jackson, minn R.R 3. Dear Mr Hour: I doich denow if you ascolyze dudes So will send you a sample of (somithing that looks like tinish) becauss my le found lit in a pasture in a sound pile, undu- weath of it, it looks as the the cloner was burned. & there are 3 sister patalio au burned in a triangle fom. dast игр the nighbors wife got up drint of eater d happned to seo a shits bright. circling theis fuem ple 1 pay any allertion z dh. Than Sundan when mange went to get the cores, bee san This Stuff Shim RECORDED : 88 been dropped 162983894-310 1 could.s Loose → not en a catanita lot a plazAUGAs 1952h Maa marest road is about a imile from The pasture & now une meet dinta So would libe to

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MR. JONES ÊNG 19 12 33 PM °52 RECEIVED B I US DEPT OF JUSTICE 18 Jars

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TRUE COPY Jackson Minn Aug 2, 1952 J. Edgar Hoover Federal bureau of Investigation. Washington, D. C. Dear Mr Hoover: I don't know if you analyze articles so will send you a sample of (something that looks like tinsel) because my uncle found it in a pasture in a round 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 their 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 mile from the pasture & now we are wondering what it is. So would like to have you analyze it & let me know. Sincerely yours, /s/ Wm Hoffmeyer

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62-83894-311 RECORDED - 126 August 20, 1952 ANDEXED - 126 Mr. John E. Lan g 1413 South Vermont Los Angeles 6, California Dear Mr. Lang: EX. - 73 Your letter of August 12, 1952, has been received and I want you to know that I appreciate the interest prompting you to bring your observations to my attention. Inasmuch as the matter to which you refer is of interest to the United States Air Force authorities, I am taking the liberty of making a copy of your communication avatlable to The Honorable, The Secretary of the Air Force, The Pentagon, Washington 25, D. C. Sincerely yours, mb- John Edgar Hoover Director LH: gr :bkh With RECEIVE -uG 20 Tolson Ladd Nichols_ Belmont Clegs glavin Harbo Rosen Tracy Laughlin Mohr Tele. Rn. Nol loman Candy VAN COMM - FBI AUG 9 210 96 SE MAILER 20

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WHITED COWARLBL RECEIVEL •MAIL ROOM F BI #. S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE AUG 21 4 19 PM °52 MIDEXED + I5e

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Los Angeles 6 California August I2th. I952 Dear Mr. Hoover Last sunday my wife and I attented a Moveins pioture where they showed the Flying SaucerSit looked like a spot of licht It gave me the impresion that there might be a plane up in the sky with a spot light or serch light that is send down from the plane and when our plan es make an affort to go up there to find them they turn off the light and there for we feel that they have made a fast getaway up into the sky at a very fast speed this plane goes back to its air field or to another place and fool the public If our plane on ite way up to find this plane would go up with all the lights turned off and etay farr away and try to come over the top of this plane they would be able to catch it but they should be prepaired to shoot it out if needed I think in order to prove this Idia we shoudd send one of our own plane up and have them send down a spot light or serch light to find out if this is not true if this is of any help it will make me happy I dont think I am very off Sincerely John E. Lang I413 So. Vermont Los Angeles 6 California RECORDED - 126 62 - 8389+ 3/1 7 AUG 27 1868 ack 8. 20,52 8. 23

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Director, FBI August 5, 1952 SAC, San Diego BORDERLAND SCIENCES, RESEARCH ASSOCIATES San Diego, California; MEAD LAYE, Director; MAX FREEDOM LONG, Director In view of the current hysteria concerning the so-called "flying saucers", I thought that the Bureau might be interested in the following information concern- ing the captioned organization. I am transmitting herewith certain literature 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 1, 1952, at approximately 12:00 noon, FRANCIS OHM asked to see 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 advised that they had some very important information to discuss. He went on to relate that through the means utilized by his organization (which the enclosed literature will reflect borders on the occult), they were able to prognosticate well in advance the recent earthquake which occurred in Tehachapi, California. He advised that they have also been able to obtain the following information: 1. That a very severe tidal wave will hit the Pacific Ocean sometime in the not too remote future and that most of the Japanese Islands will be washed away and dis appear. 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. FICT That this tidal wave will wash away the Hawaiian Islands. 4. That the West Coast of the United States will 11kewise be affected by this tidal wave. That they prognosticated the appearance of a new island in the Pacific which was published in the newspapers within the past week. • 7-199 JFS :ha 162-8389y - NOT RECORDED 71 SEP Eng 952 147 str 8 1952 INITIALS ON ORIGINAL FILED IN /

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-A Direcotr, FBI 8-5-52 Re: BORDERLAND SCIENCES, RESEARCH ASSOCIATES San Diego, California; MEAD LAYNE, Director; MAX FREEDOM LONG, Director 6. That the flying saucers are not fantasies; that they are factual and actual; that his associates in the captioned organization have been in conversation with the men operating the flying saucers, and that they have asked that high officials of the U. S. Government be informed that they are here on our planet on a peaceful mission and that they are not on a warlike mission. 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 plaes completely in no time flat. Mr. OHM requested that either I myself attend the meeting at 1:00 PM or that I designate a stenographer to attend the meeting, so that she could take down all the minutes of the meeting. told him that unfortuately this was very short notice, that I had another commitment and that our stenographers were pretty well occupied at that time. He said he would advise me of anything important that might transpire at the meeting. As of August 2, 1952, he has not advised me of anything which transpired at the meeting. I should like to point out that OHM appears to be a perfectly sane, sound individual; he operates a very large insurance business in San Diego, and is convinced in his own mind of the efficacy of this organization. No investigation is being conducted concerning this matter and I do not contemplate attending any meetings of this organization. - 2 -

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August 25, 1952 RECORDED-14 INDEXED-14 51.32 69- 83814-3123 Мт. * Choinski Koshkonong, Missourt Dear Mr. Choinski: Your letter dated August 14, 1952, has been received, and I want to thank you for affording me the benefit of your observations. Inasmuch as the matter to which you refer is of interest to another governmental agency, I am taking the liberty of forwarding a copy of your com- minication to the Director of Special Investigations, The Inspector General, Department of the Air Force, The Pentagon, Washington 25, D. C. Sincerely yours, John Edgar Hoover Director Copy of incoming sent to the Director of Special Investigations, the Inspector General, Department of the Air Force, by form letter. f''t LH: pa :bih Ladd Nichols Belmont Clegs. alavin Harbo Rosen Laughlin MAILED 9 Tele. Rm. Hol 1oman SE SEPS 23 195 AUG 2 5 1952 COMM - CRI

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• 8/14-58 War Hooow FLyINg SAUCERS For tour year have I claimed tral Hur Hyung Sancer was a disrare breeduiz ete micha dise which ine pareto in the ain Thensaids l them amen benig shie RECORDED-14 62 162-83894-317 45. a) 5x-32 La Stil 8 1952 Most d Anil ach 8 2 2-52 3H

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ÂUG 19 3 59 PH 52 DS SEC. RECIO MR. JONES Внс 19 4 52 PM °52 RECEIVED FBI US DEPT OF JUSTICE

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : Mr. A. H. Belmon FROM SUBJECT: •ur. W. do Branigan Sal FLYING DISCS DATE: August 22, 1952 PURPOSE: To recommend existing instructions to the field re flying dises be called to the attention of the field. BACKGROUND: A review of communications received from the field indicates they are not observing existing instructions contained in Bureau Bulletin #57, para- graph D, dated 10/1/47, and SAC Letter #38, dated 3/25/49, to refer details of complaints regarding flying saucers to OSI locally• ACTION: It is recommended the attached SAC Let ter be issued. Tolson Ladd Clegg Glavin Nichols Rosen Tracy Belmont Mohr Tele. Room Nease Gandy V.8 RECORDED - 34 EX.129 62-83894-313 13 SEPI 5 1952 71 SEP 101952 276

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RECEIVED-LA! FBI DEPT. OF JUSTI 5 25 PN °52 REC'O-TOL SON'S OFFICE ÂuG 22. 2 29 PM '52 U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE REC'A BEL MONIC'D BELMONT F. B.' DIRELMONT LISTICE ISTICE NG 22 HAS M 157 0 PM 152 RECEIVED-LAL F B I DEPT. OF JUSTH Дис 22 / 33 РН °52 /uG 25 11 08 AM '53 BEC'O ESPIONAGE 8 : US DEPT OF JUSTICE SEP 9 4 23 PM °52 REC'O ESPIONAGE F Bi U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE 250 Р 69+6191

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Чате STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO • A. H. BEYONE FROM : W. A. BRANTEAN SUBJECT: FLYING DISCS DATE: August 18, 1952 PURPOSE: To advise all Supervisors engaged on night duty of instructions concerning the referral of flying disc information to osI. BACK GROUND: Captain William Deegan, OSI, 4th Air Force Base, Bowling Field, has requested that any information concerning the sighting of flying dises (saucers, etc.) be telephonically furnished immediately to his office, day or night, by dialling Code 1261, and asking for Extension 509. Captain Deegan advised the Air Force is greatly concerned about the captioned matter, and would appreciate the Bureau's cooperation in immediately advising of details received concerning such complaints. ACTION: Tolson Ladd Clegg Glavin Nichols Rosen Tracy. Harbo Helmont, Tele. Room Candy It is recommended a copy of this memorandum be filed in the night and week-end Supervisor's book your office for their information. EHM :drg RECORDED - 40 62-83894 314 SEP| 5 41958 13 пиз 58 SEP 18 1952

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EL 18 1825 RECID BELMONT F. B. Sap 15 12 2u PM 952 SEP 15 10 11 AM *53 REC'O ESPIONAGE F B : S. DEPE. OF JUSTICE

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Letter #83 8 - 29-52 (C) FLYING DISCS -- Reference is made to Bureau Bulletin #57, Paragraph D, dated October 1, 1947, and SAC Letter #38, dated March 25, 1949, in the captioned matter. It is noted that some Bureau field offices are not fur- nishing to OSI locally complaints regarding flying dises, pursuant to existing Bureau instructions. Upon receipt 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 referred to in the Air Horce memorandum, which was furnished to your office as an enclosure to SAC Letter #38. The information should then be promptly fur- nished to OSI locally by your office. As you are aware, the in- vestigation of so-called flying discs is the responsibility of the Department of the Air Force. ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED NSLMPCIFIED BATE 6/20/83 BY Sp- B0,09 162-83894-V NOT REOORDED 80 SEP 3 • 1952 ORIGINAL FILED IN 66 - 0 U - 1649 277 66SEP 51952

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6 NIA TAX SARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memortum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO MR. HARBO /TO DATE: August 29, 1952 FROM : D. J. PARSONS Tolson Ladd Clegg SUBJECT: UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT ALLEGEDLY CITED BY MR. D. S. WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA DES VERGERS, Rosen Tracy Harbo By letter of August 26, 1952, the Air Force requested Mohr_ that we examine the cap of Mr. Desergers, a scoutmaster at West Palm Beach, Florida, who claims that he obserued an unidentified flying object in a desolate area. He reported 3R Cany that upon his investigation, a tad object 30 feet in diameter hovered over his head and shot a "red blob" which caused him to k lose consciousness. The cap has some holes burned in it and it is reported that the hair on Desuergers' arms was singed. The Air Force requested that we determine, if possible, from any Acol residues left the nature of the residual material. The Air Force desires an oral report on this tonight. Parsona We have finished the examination and are preparing to advise the Air Force as follows: 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 obuious burns, there is one minute burned area which is probably too small to have been caused intentionally but more likely by a small 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 would not be expected if the source of the flame was directly overhead. ma When the cap is observed from the front, the left edge of the insignia and the fold in the blue 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: DJP/me k 8/29/52 6:30 Pm READ To 182 SEP 1 8 1952 That in response to the request, of Colonel Free of the Air Force, it is recommended that he be orally advised of the above. lel ly Reason (aman 26I - O3X2ONI 6283894-315 RECORDED - 199 SEP 11 1952 / FRee ost ty Telephone

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62-83894 316 September 11, 1952 RECORDED - 126 INDEXED - 126 Mr. RoT Tlwell Roads town, New Jersey Dear Mr. Elwell: Your letter postmarked September 6, 1952, has been recetved, and I appreciate the interest prompting you to let me have the benefit of your observations. Since the contents of your communication may be of interest to other governmental agencies, am taking the liberty of forwarding copies of it to the Administrator of Civil Aeronautics, Civil Aeronautics Administration, Department of Commerce, Washington, D. C., and to The Honorable, The Secretary of Defense, The Pentagon, Washington, D. C. Sincerely yours, U.S DEPIT John Edgar Hoover Director Civil Aeronautics Administration Secretary of Defense by form sent by form sent 6 RECEIVED READING ROOM FBI SEP 11 7 01 PM °52 proto Tolson Ladd Nichola Belmont Cless. alavin Harbo Rosen - 55 SEP 25 1952 Tele. Rm. Hollosan_ COMM = FBI Candy: SEP 1 2 1952 MAILED 19 1184

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Roadatown, 7 J: Cug. 52 8. Edgar Hoover: ederal Bureau of Investigation Wash, A.COFIyiNg dAUGeRS sene reading so much › me evern an object in the south wests daw bildings and when I ran out ba gi and seemed to rise faster and milk kq-11-62

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straighter the t. Mean until it. desappeared = know it was much smaller. a man above 70 sat here and saw it. He said his ancestors had seen them generations back and had Called them Omens" and also Jack O Lanterna They were on the opposite side f the Earch, The off eat

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Ct the time • haracteristics. They attra They repelled each other. Some had much Pull and much Pusk. Some had much Pull and little Tush, Some had little Pull and much Push and some had little Pull and lette Now Masser of dron ore are suspended in med air, by Magnets, while the ore is melted and the impuritica drop out my theory: G = Gravity P+P= Push+ Pull O Granty

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: as: Earth i complete G unit for he tains a which pulls all obfecte toward It also contains a force, Linen to hit a get ans from its center. I he Pull of Eartha G minus its Push, equale the force B Gas force Gumte and aleo repele them in proportion to ite P.X P. G. It aleo attracti o repels all loose objecte hat do not contain a center B G Thus Earth with more Pill than Push attracts all objects and those without a center of G fall to its surface or are burned in the upper air as meteora or Falling Stars.

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. Some Gunte contain more 5 Caish than d l. For example he 1 tom when men the no ti The sun and ite Planete contain more Pull than Push, I he Planet nearest the sun contains more Pull in relationto Its Push than and other Planet The Planet Fartherest frona the Sun Contains less J'ull in relation to ta Push than any other Blanet. If each Planet had the atmosphere fEath a man would weigh more on the Planet nearest nearest the un and would weigh less on each Planet as he mored out from the Sun, The Pull G 1 Mous ma he much greater than Earths Pull c But it is heater at Mars Push is much

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There are many hundreds o small G Unica, with the, rig proportion 8P+P.C, moving around Jun in smaller Orbite than the that i the Earthil in shite around the Earth and are locked to it. (lfe the moon) Any one or any group of these emall GUnte may be

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Pulled neare 7 enough to he Earth to be s sen Those attacked to Earth travel around the Equator and are. seen, moatly, in that section. The G linte that hame to much Push in relation to their Planet or the Sun are lorred about bell to be and the day into Space, whence they Came. The greatest Pull 1 Elerths Gis Cush 0 celing becaus these Ban left so a Compor needle fonte north.

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The Pill C of the moon is mich greater than its Push, 4 is Pull Causes higher tidea here on arth than the Pall o the Sun. Not Buch, eut pope to taste Push, is centered on the side facing the Earth. The great Pull keeps the note on timing, eprept an it 1. Lis grat Pull is locked with Earthe G Pull at Equator and so the moon han t over our Equator. But the gree Push DEarths G combines Whth that f the moon t holds them apart. angle; and with the right proportion of PYPS. Could attack stoped to the Sun ov any of its Planets, If it were the Earth. It would circle us at

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•the Equater due to the greater it point. The PXP.G. of the Sun reacher out and holds the fartherest Planet and that Planete PEP G. reaches to the Seen, Thus our Solar system PXP.G reaches out to hold ite nearest might pet no to a a chen. ever collided unless one fust lost ite power B PXPG. is two magneta are pushad resist each other he the answer to the rotation 0f0 the Eat tet, with mth hat Roles may be ansiver to Seacona. tures with the right Planet o Ceaturea could live here en our ar,

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cupant would hare no semar o speed or sudden change of direction. Planet or star whe This would act as a buffer and keep the shep cool. But I doubt if we hare any such visitor from Space. I think the visitors seen are the small Gunite cucling the Earth + sun, and not one f them harm to ou people. limitless postabilities. Possibly some type & balloon has been

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• bombarded If it has res (IC) ner a center Locked, so the Earth may definite Orbita. Since this idia (on theory)

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i becamar 2 feel 12 : That the present course events, maker this idea and 9 worth invertigare deliver it Kind service.. Roy Elvell. Roadstown n.f.

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FLyiNG SAUCERS STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : Mr. A. H. Beindits FROM : C. E. HennrichCt SUBJECT: STRANGE WHITE OBJECT SEEN OVER MONTANA ON SEPTEMBER 19, 1952 DATE: September 20, 1952 Tolson add/ Belmont. Clege Glavin HarDo Rosen Tracy I talked with ASAC Plaxico of Butte on September 20, Mohr re the attached news releases indicating that the FBI Tele. Rm. was investigating a strange white object which reportedly Nease Jandy streaked across the sky of Montana for about one hundred miles. Mr. Plaxico stated that while a report of this object had been received at the Butte Office, that no investigation was conducted regarding the matter and that none was contemplated. ACTION: For your information. Attachment CEH: meh yul Wit alachel When neidat 12 2/1070/52 RECORDED - 132 162 - 83894-317 13 SEP 28 1952 2E6 55 EX. - 73 60 OCT 6 1952

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RECEIVED-LAD: FBI DEPT. OF JUSTIC SEP 20 3 47 PM '52. SEp 22 10 28 AM °52 RECEIVED-TOLSON F B I i: S. DEPT OF JUSTICE 11.09 AM °52 Ост 2 REC'O ESPIONAGE JUSTICE RECEIVED - NICHOLS F. B. I. U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE SEP 22 / 16 PM '52

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum -INGODMA CONKIRCATI UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO DIRECTOR, FBI DATE: 10/3/52 FROM SAC, NEWARK (100-36998) RE : SUBJECT: SPECIAL INQUIRY UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL OBJECTS; Ing eater deeral, sA USAF ppecial Investigations New York 4, New York FLyIng DISES 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 District Office of Special Investi- gations, 6? Broad Street, New York 4, New York, that the back- ground of a civilian photographer, JOHN B in view of the fact that they had allegedly observed and photo- graphed an unidentified aerial object on July 31, 1952. 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 STOCK did photograph 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. CHARLES GREGG, staff writer, "The Herald News, Passaic, N. J." The letter further requested that the photographer and the witness be questioned as to the circumstances under which the photographs 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. 8/29/32, a decordance to 50 or 183, 0m Office, New York City and no further investigations have been made by this office. 62-83894-318 LWR : IMH APPROPRIATE AGENCIES RECORDED-12 OCT 8 1952 AND FIELD OFFICES INDEXED-12 17 ADVISED BY ROUTING T TIP (S) 0F0 7 - 199 SECURITE INFORMATION bede 67 0C1 131951

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FRED. J. BEK HOUT LL.D. 49, STADHOUDERSLAAN THE HAGUE THE NETHERLANDS THE HAGUE, October 6th Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation Pennsylvania Avenue WASHINGTON D.C. In the care of Mr Bailey Rm 1246 Dear Mr Bailey, Flying SAucERs 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 a certain subject you will surely remember. At the end of the conversation I promissed you not to talk about it un- til I had received word from you whether or not the proper authorities were interested. It was taken for granted that a few months might elapse before the answer could be given. Five months have passed by since then, and as the subject has now become active in Europe, I am really anxious to go ahead with it, I have ofcourse tried to check the theory on each aspect and while doing so I found various complementary as well as fundamental details. I have now reached the point however where I would like to discuss the whole with an expert and I would therefor certainly appreciate to know whether I have to consider our agreement on comolete silence as still being valid and necessary or not It might be that you are too busy to be able to write to me of that the authorities are not interested. As it is not my intention to bother you too much with it, I will take it that there is no longer any necessity for silence on my part i? I do not receive any information to contrary by the end of this month. By this proposition I do not intend to force an issue but I would like to discuss a subject like this with scientists friends of mine, which I cannot do as long as I am bound by my promise to you. With very kind regards, EJ. LEoFYours Truly EX-115 RECORDED - 76 9L - dEXSONI 62=83844-319 OCT| 14 1952 13

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October 10, 1952 AIR MAIL RECORDED - 78 62-83824-319 Mr. Fred J. Eekhout // - (3X30N Stadhouderslaan The Hague The Netherlands EX-Ide Mr. Eekhout: Your letter dated October 6, 1952, has been received. You will perhaps recall being advised at the time of your visit to this Bureau that the matter discussed was not within the jurisdiction of the FBI. However infor view of your imminent departure from Washington the mation was accepted for transmittal to the appropriate agency, which was to contact you if interested. Full details were made available at that time to the Department of the Air Force for evaluation and consider- ation. In the absence of some arrangement between you and the Air Force, your further use of the pertinent facts is, of course, a matter for your own determination. Sincerely yours, RECE CT TU Tolson Lada 11 chole Belmont Clegs HArbo Rosen tracy. Laugh11n Hohr Tele. Rm. Nol Lomar Candy John Edgar Hoover Director NOTE ON YELLOW: Bulet to OSI, Air Force, dated 5-7-52 transmitted data furnished by Eekhout to the Bureau 5-5-52 concerning his ideas as to plans for a workable flying disc. Eekhout was informed that further contact with him, if any, would come from the interested Government agency rather than the Bureau. No mention was made of his keeping the facts secret pending a reply from the Bureau or the Air Force. (62-83894-273) 02 MAILED VHB: T dm 63 OCT 20 1952T 1 0 1952 COMM- EDI

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DEF DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE WASHINGTON 25, D. C. 30 September 1952 Recd from Am nizungence 1015 mo MEMORANDUM FOR: MR. SUBJECT: Comments on Article in The NEW YORKER 1. A call was made to the Air Technical Intelligence Center, 1330 this date, (Captain Ruppelt) regarding the attached article. Daniel ATIC did not in any way indicate to 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 flying saucers. ATIC is under the impression that Mr. Lang made the story up or picked it up from a magazine or newspaper article sometime back that definitely was not associated with their organization. 3• ATIC 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. Reporter. at La Saneting Perojet Saucer 1 Incl: Article fr NEW YORKER, dtd Sept 6, 1952 colonel, USAF Chier Policy Management Group Directorate of Intelligence UNRECORDED COPY FILED IN form INDEXED - 50 mers 10/8/52' 6 3 3 60 OCT 291962' 162-83894-320 , OCT. 14.18 Luper FivE Luke 10552m Silas

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KIRTMENT 10 F DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OFFICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION WASHINGTON 25, D. C. Recd rom Us The following information concerning Air Force investigations of unusual aerial phenomena is submitted in answer to your request. In the Fall of 1947 the United States Air Force took official notice of reports of so-called "flying Bauers" because the reports from the public indicated that the problem might be related to the Air Force responsibility for the air defense of the United States. On December 30, 1947 the Air Force directed its Air Materiel Conmand, at wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, to set up a project to collect anc evaluate all available facts concerning "flying saucer" sightings. To perform this task the Air Materiel Command obtained the services of civilian and military astronomers, psychologisto, electronic specialists, meteorologists, aeronautical engineers, and physicists. On December 27, 1949, after 375 reported sightings had been investigated, the Air Force, with the concurrence of the Army and the Navy, announced the findings of the "flying saucer" project. The evidence at that time indicated that the majority of the reports of unidentified flying objects could be accounted for as misinterpretations of various conventional objects, a mild form of hysteria, meteorological phenomena, light aberrations, or hoaxes. There remained, however, a number of unexplained sightings, and the Air Force has continued its investigations inasmuch as it is an Air Force responsi- bility to identify and analyze aerial phenomena that could possibly be a menace to the United States. Subsequent to December 1949, these investigations have been conducted as a normal intelligence function, rather than a spectal project, by the Alr Technical Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. 62- 83894-320 ENCLOSURE

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To date, the Air Force hag undertaken to investigate and analyze about 1500 reports dealing with these phenomena. As 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 known 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 in 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 based on sightinge 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 the 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 been 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 has increased, and people today have a greater curiosity about this activity than before. Also, our present efficient communication facilitios 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. The Air Force believes that most of these phenomena will gradually be understood as more is known about occurrences in the upper atmosphere. - 2 -

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Source of Reports The majority of reports of aerial phenomena have come from civilians. About 8 percent come from civil airlines pilots, while approximately 25 percent are reported by military personnel. Reports have been received also from highly qualified scientists. Although primary significance is attached to reports from qualified observers, there is no intention to discredit untrained observore. Radar Sightings It is fairly well established that some of these images are ground objects Temperature inversion reflections can give a return on a radar scopo that is as sharp as that received from an aircraft. Speed ranges of these returns are reportodly from zero to fantastic spoods. The "objects" also appear to move in all directions. Such radar sightings have resulted in hundreds of fruitloss intercept efforts. One sciontific theory holds that light can be 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 refloction is an incident which occurred in January 1951 near Oakridge, Tennessoo. Two Air Force aircraft attempted to intercept an unidentified "object" and actually established a radar "Lock" on the object, Their altitudo at the time was 7,000 fect. The unidentifie object, according to their radar, appeared to be at an elevation of ten to 25 degrees. Three passes were made in an attempt to close on the object. In each instance the pilots reported that their radar led them first upward and then down toward a specific point on the ground. Ionized clouds are believed to be the cause of some unidentifiod radar returns. objocts or manifestations. Policy Regarding Attemptod Intercoption No orders have been issued by the Air Defense Command to its fighter units 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 i0 lnown or appoare to be hostile. This ahould not bo intorproted to moan that our pilote will firo haphanardly on anything that flies. - 3 -

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Attempts at interception are not made overy time that unidentified images appear bricfly on an Air Force radar-scope. Current Air Force interceptors are short-range, short-duration, high-speed aircraft and can be omployed most offectively when it is poseiblo to track a target by visual or radar means so that its position in the air at some future time may be predicted with a reasonable degree of accuracy. Methoda of Evaluating The first step in evaluating sightings of unusual aerial phenomena is to collect all available data and check it against known airborne objects such as balloons, aircraft, missilos, meteors, and weather phenomena. If still unexplained, reports from reliable sources, with sufficiont details, are turned over to specialists in various scientific fields for further analysis. Future Plans for Evaluating As stated earlier, there is a need for better reports from trained observers using adequato 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 consiste of a diffraction grating camera which separates light into its componont parts (spectrum) and rogisters them on film. Tho principle involved 16 that used by astronomers in dotermining the composition of the stars. In this manner Air Force scientists may be 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. This telescope has a wide aperture lens and is capable of covering a cone of 150 degrees or nearly the whole sky from horizon to horizon. This equipment will make it possible to get on a series of photo- graphic platos a complete record of what happens in the sky at night. What "Saucere" Aro. Not The Air Force has stated in the past, and reaffirms at the present time, that these unidentified aerial phenomena are not a secret weapon, missilo 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 that is associatod with material or vehiclos that are dirocted against the United States, from another country or from other planets. Your interost in this matter is greatly approciated. Please call upon us if we may be of further service. Sincerely yours,

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N midsummer of 1947, the - ed States Air Force, already concerned with such problems as the develop- ment of guided missiles and supersonic craft, the rigging up of radar networks, and its controversy with the Navy over unification, found itself confronted by another, and completely different, head- ache-the flying saucer. People in every section of the country were seeing strange objects that streaked across the sky at tremendous speeds, and while these people, who included such prac- ticed students of the heavens as air- plane pilots, farmers, and the Lieutenant Governor of Idaho, were not able to identify the things they had seen, they were able to describe them vividly and unforgettably. The newspapers called the first of these mysterious objects a flying saucer, taking their cue from the man who reported having seen it and who described it as saucerlike, and the name stuck, although later people re- ported seeing things that looked like fly- ing chromium hubcaps, Aying dimes, Aying teardrops, flying gaslights, flying -cream cones, and flying pie plates. As more and more curious things were seen in the skies, cautiously quizzical editorials began to appear in the papers, and the President and members of Con- gress received a deluge of letters de- manding an explanation. Many of the letter writers had concluded that the objects, whatever they might be, were manned by Russians, and that as soon as their pilots had reconnoitred suffi- ciently, they would return loaded with atomic bombs. Others thought the earth was being visited by space ships from another planet. Still others suspected that our own Air Force was secretly testing some new form of aircraft. Everyone agreed, however, that it was up to the Air Force, as the cus- todian of our welkin, to explain the Aying objects and, if necessary, to repel them. The result was the launching by the Air Force, on January 22, 1948, of a special investigation, an investiga- tion that, though it has reached num- erous conclusions, is still under way and has yet to put the public mind at rest. It appears that, aside from the hope of reassuring a jittery populace, the Air Force, in embarking upon this under- taking, had any or all of three things in mind. It may well have shared the civilian concern over what, if anything, the Russians might have to do with the reported phenomena, and it may even have felt that to insure a thoroughgoing SPORTER AT I P GE SOMETHING IN THE SKY eral of the Air Matériel Command, and its base was, and is, at Wright Field, investigation there was certainly no Dayton, Ohio. The project's task turned harm in assuming for the moment that out to involve a mixture of old-fashioned the era of interplanetary travel had detection, scientific analysis, public rela- arrived and the earth had become tions, and the study of a widespread an objective for journeys from else- where in the solar system. Or-and this state of mind. In December, 1949, after checking, over a period of two would not necessarily exclude the first years, three hundred and seventy-five two considerations the Air Force may have been setting up a smoke screen to reports of intruders in the sky, the Air Force publicly called it quits, but Project protect, in the interest of national secu- Saucer was not actually disbanded. Na- rity, the secret of some experimental fly- tional security, the Air Force announced ing objects of its own that only a trusted few of its members knew about. What- at the time, was not endangered. The flying saucers were apparitions, it said, ever the purpose, the investigation, with all attributable either to a failure to which I have been in touch from time recognize conventional objects, to to time, has seemingly been exhaustive. hoaxes, or to a mild form of mass hys- The Air Force personnel originally teria. The Air Force, however, did not assigned to it was later augmented by let the matter rest there. astronomers, psychologists, physicists, Not long after the apparent demise meteorologists, physicians, and repre- of Project Saucer, I had a talk in Wash- sentatives of the F.B.I. The investiga- tion, which soon became popularly ington with Brigadier General Ernest known as Project Saucer, was first Moore, then chief of Air Force In- telligence, in the course of which he headed by Lieutenant General Benja- made four categorical statements that min W. Chidlaw, Commanding Gen- I felt sure he had made many times be- Clipped from The NEW YORKER September 6, 1952 pages 64 through 82 page • 62 62-83894-320 ENCLOSURE

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fore. off," he s: Russians tenant Governor Donal have nothing to do so-called of Idaho, disclosed that he saucers; I'll swear te n a stack of had seen a comet-shaped object tiling Bibles, if you like. Sec ond, we don't over the western part of the state. It have any secret new types of aircraft finally dipped below the horizon, he that could have started all i his commo- said. (Later on, the personnel of Proj- tion. Third, nobody, in our e pinion, has ect Saucer decided that the Lieutenant spotted space ships from some other Governor had been looking at either planet. Fourth, everything) our investi- Saturn or Mercury.) Four cops in Port- gators learned has been made available land, Oregon, saw a group of discs to the public." "wobbling, disappearing, and reappear- ing." THE first saucer incident occurred Reports of other phenomena having on the afternoen of June 24, 1947, been seen in the skies appeared in the when Kenneth Arnold, on a business papers almost daily. Two Army officers trip for a Boise, Idaho, firm that makes at Fort Richardson, Alaska, reported fire-control equipment, was flying his seeing a spherical object flying through priveirote she from Chehalis, Washing- the air at incredible speed and leav- ton, to Yakima, V fashington. The re- ing no vapor trail; some fishermen off fection of a brigh. it flash on one wing Newfoundland saw a series of aerial caught his eye. F.le turned and, at a flashes, silver to reddish in color; a lady distance he thought 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-I," and alerted her less aircraft he ading toward Mount neighbors to the presence of foreign Rainier. «T , could see their outlines quite agents practicing a secret code in our anly 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 so shiny that they reflected Jersey, was traced to a the sun like a mirror." Ar- fireworks display. Dr. Paul nold said he watched the Fitts, an Ohio State Uni- saucers for three minutes versity psychologist who and estimated their speed at was for a time attached to about twelve hundred miles Project Saucer, considered an hour. this crowded condition in Air Force technicians, consulted the holiday skies the result by newspaper- of mass suggestibility, the men, said that any object same jumpy trait that moving that fast would be caused Americans to see invisible to the naked eye at Zeppelins overhead during Arnold's estimated distance. and after the First World The press scoffed at Ar- War. "Our graphs show nold's story, and he was re- that saucer incidents al- sentful. "Even if I see a ways increase dramatically ten-story building flying after publicity," he has through the air, I won't since told me. "The sky, say a word about it," he de- you know, has been a clared, and when he got source of exciting visions back 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 azine called Fate. moments." No sooner were the skeptical news- paper accounts printed than dozens of people turned up with similar re- FROM the beginning, the officers in charge of Project Saucer recognized ports. Another resident of Boise spotted a peculiar difficulty in their assignment. a disc over that city, "a half circle in "If 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 caught in the rays of the sun." Lieu- can't tell me much about what you page 64

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Simulest, surest matic record changer... "Vietrola"45 saw?" Major rgs, who was then the chief' ficer between Wright Field and high command in Washington, 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 reason for their appearance at a given place. But it is impossible to prove, logically and with finality, a double negative— that is, that there are no flying saucers and that people have not seen flying sau- cers. The best we could do under the circumstances was to deduce, first, from Complete Model phonograph, 45EY2, AC. "Golden Throat" $34.95 tone system. (suggested list price) • Plays up to 14 records at one loading • The only record and changer designed for each other • Records change from the center-the modern way • Includes $6 worth of RCA Victor al- bums at no extra charge. Other "Victrola" 45 record changers as low as $16.75. Only RCA VICTOR makes the Vietrola Tmks. * Division of Radio Corporation of America LOVELY TO LIGHT BY the fact that it had not been proved, that saucers had been seen and, second, from the fact that reasonable theories could be advanced to explain away all the reports of seeing them, that probably nobody had seen them at all. The fewer the theoretical explanations and the less plausible they were, the more reason there was for suspecting people had seen saucers." The Major shook his head, and continued, "It's a difficult concept to grasp, but so was the job we were tackling. I asked Major Boggs whether there was any way to account for the epidemic of reports of strange celestial objects. "Of course there is, ," he replied. "If you look up at the sky long enough, you A candelabrum of Italian wrought iron in stylized flower and leaf design set off by delicate seroll- work and finished in silvery black for dramatic contrast with white candles. He ero 9. 37.50 8" across. Postage .50 vest of Miss. .75 can almost always make out something there that appears strange. And more people are looking up now than ever before. Kids don't count freight cars any more; they count airplanes. People who were trained in air observation during the war have gone right on observing. Also, the public hasn't for- gotten that the atomic bomb was kept secret from it for three years. This Pega HOUSE DE TALIAN HANACRAFTS ! time, people want to know what's cook- ing, so they look up." Major Boggs "Time was when people used 217 East 49th St.. New York 17. PL 9-6510 to make a wish if they saw a shoot- YUNITE mighe sund ing star. Now they telephone the Air Major Boggs and I pondered this unromantic age in silence for a moment. Then 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 commercial and military aircraft up there at any given moment. Then, there are more than five hundred outfits of At leading furniture and department stores. Send 3-cent stamp to Dept. N for booklet. UNION-NATIONAL, INC. • JAMESTOWN, N. Y. one kind or another that release balloons from time to time. These range from simple weather balloons, ne *ger than page 67, 68

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it had behaved like a normal aireraft in the way it disapp the line of sight. Here, the experts professed to hope, was something Project Saucer could get its teeth into. The whole flying-saucer mystery might be explained. The first step was to determine whether the ob- ject was an aircraft that had been par- tially obscured by a cloud or whose appearance had been distorted by a rain- storm. Two hundred and twenty-five civilian and military flight schedules were analyzed, and it was found that one other plane, an Air Force C-47, had been near the Eastern airliner at the time the mysterious object was sighted. Conjecture about the C-47 began to appear irrelevant, however, when the Macon ground crews agreed with Chiles and Whitted that the thing they had seen was going much faster than two hundred miles an hour, and so, unless it dawdled around some- where, wouldn't have taken anything like an hour to get from Macon to Montgomery. Astronomers went to work on the problem. Dr. Hynek considered the possibility that a brilliant, slow-moving meteor might be the explanation. Vari- ous bits of the apparition's description encouraged this notion-"orange-red flame, ," "cigar-shaped," "a tremendous burst of fame." Unfortunately, the flight schedules of meteors are not avail- able, and Dr. Hynek had no means of testing his hypothesis. "It will have to be left to the psychologists to tell us whether the immediate trail of a bright meteor could produce the subjective im- pression of a ship with lighted win- dows," he wrote in a report on his findings. The psychologists expressed the opinion that a meteor could indeed be mistaken for a space ship. Dr. Fitts, the Ohio State psychologist, observed that both Chiles and Whitted were human and therefore as likely to be victims of mass suggestibility as any- one else. Dr. Fitts told me during a talk I had with him that psychologists are used to the fact that even people of high mental calibre often make mis- takes about what they see. "Also, I would like to make the point that pilots are trained to instruments," he said. "They grow very dependent on those instruments, and I don't know whether ire necessarily superior observers out them. I do know that during the war, when I was in the Air Force, pilots frequently gave some pretty odd reports of what they'd seen while fly- ing their missions." Chiles and Whitted readily agreed that their report might Пасотр Ngo Waite An utterly new carpet creating an unusual textu Extremely smart... for one- Chosen by leading dec in carpet fashion and luxur And, of course, Nye-Wait I advantages of being mothpro for lasting fit to withstand will outwear conventi Write Nye-Wait for the Nye-T 295 Fifth New Yor Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, D * Illustrated is NYE-WAIT'S CORI visible depth, translucent color and r page 69, 70

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holding one in my or The rancher forwar Wright Field, where it was identified as a remnant of one of the incendiary bal- loons the hopeful Japanese dispatched across the Pacific during the war in an effort to start forest fires. Even pictures taken of supposed sau- cers failed to impress the experts. There was the case of a man in Phoenix, Arizona, who spotted a flat gray ob- ject spiralling up and down in the sky at a speed that he estimated at between four and five hundred miles an hour. He snapped two pictures of it with his Brownie. Prints were rushed to Project Saucer, and Dr. Irving Langmuir, the physicist and a Nobel Prize winner, was asked to study them. The distinguished scientist learned that a thunderstorm had occurred just before the picture- taking, and concluded that he was look- ing at a couple of rather poor shots of a piece of paper being buffeted by the wind. As time went on and the skies, appar- ently, continued to teem with fly- ing saucers, the generals in the Penta- gon, warming to their task, decided to enlarge the scope of the investigation. Commanders of all Air Force installa- tions in the country were ordered to assign Intelligence officers to look into sightings reported in their areas. The officers were instructed to solicit the as- sistance of municipal police officials, who might be familiar with the personalities of the saucer observers. The F.B.I. was also called upon for assistance, and as- signed agents to help interview people who reported that they had seen discs. The agents used a standard question- naire, drawn up by Air Force Intelli- gence, which called for such informa- tion as the saucer's size, speed, color, and maneuvers. The information was usually transmitted to Wright 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 flaming disc had land- ed on her roof. The object turned out to be a hollow, drum-shaped affair made of plywood, with "USSR" crude- ly daubed on it in paint. An F.B.I. man found that a turpentine-soaked cloth had caused the flame. A practical joke, he decided. A farmer near Danforth, Illinois, reported that a saucer had crash-landed in one of his fields and burned up a patch of weeds The F.B.T Ru CARI 70 Rum Carioca CERTO RICAN FEM PUERTO RICAN RUM GOLD OR WHITE LABEL - MAKE HARD MATTRESSES SOFT ...and with this This cozy cotton "pillow" for your body coaxes sweet sleep from hard mattresses and in $ 51795 ferior beds. Special boon toz invalids and aged. Easy to carry L ACA Blue out and sun. $17.95 in blue-&. White Stripe white ACA, $19.95 in rose, blue or green damask, full or twin sizes, shipping charges prepaid Absolute Satisfaction Immediate shipment - Guaranteed DIRECT MATTRESS CO. "We Sell Sle Trademark Exeter h TH At Whitehouse & Hardy in New York; City of Paris in San Francisco; Phelps-Terkel in Los Angeles: At other leading stores or write: EXETER Hosiery Mills • Executive Offic Sales Offices: 330 F page 73, 74

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on the retina and moving as the eye moves. Other elements of th problem were studied by such men as Dr. George Valley, a nuclear physicist at the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology; staff members of the research firm of Rand Corporation; an assortment of physicists and aerodynamicists who specialize in the study of the stratosphere and the space beyond it; and the electronics ex- perts attached to the Cambridge Field Station. These men were all searching for physical rather than psychological explanations, and some fairly strange theories occurred to them-the possibil- ity that extraterrestrial animals were flying into our atmosphere, for example. (No 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. Wells thought up for his novel "The First Men in the Moon" would work; it wouldn't, they decided. The supposition that interplan- etary 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 unwieldy 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 America 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 Mars took on a new urgency, and a new corollary: If there are living creatures on Mars, would they be capable of building space ships? The astronomers FOR STORE NEAR WRITE HAYMAKERS BY AVON. [ 47 WEST 34TH ST.. NEW Y OR SEND CHECK OR MONEY ORDER DIRECTLY T page 75, 76

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that—-that while the information they give me may be mad their names never will be." cases, Captain Ruppelt said, investigation has shown that the people he has inter- viewed had been deceived by things that have been deceiving others all along— balloons, planes, meteors, and so on—but a nettling residue of around twenty per cent of the cases have wound up in that exasperating old pigeonhole labelled "Unidentified." Nothing, for example, could be found to account for the "something silvery directly overhead" reported by a mystified Civil Aeronautics Administration inspector at Terre Haute. A commercial pilot who, Battle Creek, Michigan, spotted "an oval-shaped silver object" ahead of his ship, posed a similarly un- solved problem, as did a highly respected naval officer, stationed at the dirigible base at Lakehurst, New Jersey, who re- ported that he had stared through his binoculars at a brilliant image making turns that were far too tight for any known aircraft. Twenty-five per cent of the observ- ers interrogated by the Aerial Phenom- ena Officer in the last two and a half years have been military pilots. Eight per cent have been commercial pilots, some with as much as twenty years' ex- perience in the air, and at one stage in the current phase of the investigation, even a few physicists at Los Alamos, New Mexico, men who make a fetish of objectivity, were interviewed after they reported having seen puzzling lights hovering above their atomic- energy laboratories. "If you took any one of these incidents by itself, it might not mean much," Captain Ruppelt said. "But in view of the number and calibre of the informants, you couldn't help taking their claims seriously." In February, 1951, Dr. Urner Liddel, a nuclear physicist attached to the Office of Naval Research, at Wash- ington, D.C., declared that at last, thanks to the lifting of certain security restrictions, he could provide the solution to the mystery of the flying saucers: They were "skyhooks," he said—-bal- loons a hundred feet in diameter, which the Navy had secretly been sending up for the past four years in order to study cosmic rays. Dr. Liddel's asser- tion was immediately disputed by Dr. Anthony O. Mirarchi, who, as former head of the Air Force's Atmospheric Composition Bureau, had assisted in the diagnosis of Project Saucer reports. Dr. Mirarchi said he thought the saucers might be missiles from some foreign HAVE YOU GRASPED THE Southwick IDEA? Here is tailoring so completely flexil natural that the comfort contrast is res markable. Once you experience the blissf and casual distinction of SUPERFLEX CO tion, you'll never go back to over-stuffed styled clothes. Suits from $70. Sports from $55. At these and oth. PAUL STUART, INC. New York City WARNER & COMPANY Baltimore, Md. SILVERSTONE'S Milwaukee, Wis. ARTHUR L Boston JOHN WANAMAK Philadel ROBERT K San Franc For stores in oth GRIECO BROS., Inc., 200 Fift HIGHLIGHTS IN 14K GOLD Present her with a smart acce the school year right and acc Ring $40. 17J Movado w (Available in stainle Poodle charm $53.50 Cut-out initials (Allow one wee Shown Actual Size • Fec Mail and Phone Orders Filled BLACK, STARI FIFTH AVENUE AT 48TH STRE EAST ORANGE MANHASS page 77, 78

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tronomers, whom I called "our best advisers ... in ess of visitors from elsewhere, aph the sky continuously, but they had reported no saucers. The General 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 the 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 anything that we can understand"-and utilizing it under conditions in which no mass is involved. As for the latter, the General told the press, drawing a laugh, "You know, What tho mass' means is that there's nothing there." W HILE General Samford's inter- view probably reassured the pub- lic as evidence that the Air Force was still on the job, it did nothing to lessen the nation's saucer-consciousness. The reporters had hardly thanked the Gen- eral for his comments when, on Au- gust 1st, a Coast Guard photographer produced a picture showing four bizarre lights burning brilliantly in a daylight sky. He said he had taken it over Salem, Massachusetts. The next day, a Har- 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, created the equivalent of flying saucers in his laboratory by introducing molecules of ionized air into a partial vacuum in a bell jar, and three days later an internationally known authori- ty on atmospheric conditions said of the physicist's experiment, "I know of no conditions of the earth's atmosphere, high or low, which would duplicate page 81, 82

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7-26a • Invoice of Contents from DERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON, D. C. Date October 6, 1952 Case References Directorate of Special Invest. Consigned tothe Inspector General Department of the Air Force, The Pentagon Washington, D. C. Att: Mr. Gilbert R. Levy List of Contents INVESTIGATION OF POSSIBLE UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT PC-33951DE Q1 through Q6 K1 through K3 497363 MAILED ОСт 2 31952 сом Mr. Harbo, 7625 Mr. Conrad, 7142 Mr. Downing, 6228 IB Mr. Bowles, 7601 Mr. Parsons, 7121 REGISTE ED MAIL за 8 62.83874. 68 MAR 3 SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: Mall Room, place date of shipment and registry number; Shipping Room, show date of shipment and initial this invoice; then return it to person whose name is checked in column at right. After this checked name has been initialled, invoice should be placed in administrative file.

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Date: To: From: RECORDED - 143 Subject: Oe tober 28, 1952 Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the 41r Force The Pentagon Washington 25, D. C. John Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation 62- 83894-321 FLYING SAUCERS There are attached for your information a copy of a self-ezplanatory letter dated October 21, 1952, and the enclosures thereto, received by this Bureau from Mr. Naruel #. Reece. Mr. Reece has been aduised that his letter has been referred to your Department. No further action is being taken in this matter by this Bureau.. Attachment EHM: cem: mes mes Tolson Ladd Nichola Belmont Clavin Harbo Rosen Tracy_ Laughl in Monr_ Tele. Rm. Holloman Gandy_ MAILED 16 OCT 2 9 1952 COMM - FBI IS. Nd 6E g - NOV 5 1959

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COCKTAIL LOUNGE DINING ROOM CAFETERIA STYL Hotel FLyING SAuCERS WASHINGTON • D-C 18 TH AND H.ST. N.W PHONE NA 9216 21-10-52 lear Sirs, we shinder so le Intone elea when this pletioe use Caber. Neither o na miticed anything unusual at the time, and & chink that if the "gast" on the negitive and pistine, moull be a they of realty, me could certinly. have noticed it. 2 It we would never have heard anyth alout " thing" and objects, ne mondat and this to you, beyond a dould. But, uhat loakor like a spast could le come- my different. . Delle ofe those sorry. RECORDED - 47 162-83894-321 INDEXED - 47 Repaida лев? NARIEL TREECE 54 5Seh arvel N. Reece 10 - 29 - 50 ENm

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO • R. A. H. BELMON 0 DATE: October 8, 1 705 FROM : V. P. KEAX /PA SUBJECT: FLYING SAUCERS Tolson Ladd Clega Reference is made to an article which appeared in New Yorker" dated September 6, 1952, which is attached. article which was written by Daniel Lang contained inaccurate information regarding FBI investigations, indi- cating that the FBI conducts certain inquiries regarding flying saucers at the request of the Air Force. Tele. ease Gundy. pointed out here that, although the Bureau did at one time conduct some investigations regarding flying saucers, a present agreement has 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 complaints over to the Office of Special Investigations (OSI), which in turn transmits the information 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 flying saucers. 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 Branch, Counter-Intelligence Division, Office of 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 in that organization in order to gather information for his article. Colonel C. M. Young, Executive Officer to Major General John A. Samford, Director of Air Intelligence, advised that Lang has not contacted General Samford's office. Colonel Young also telephonically contacted Captain Ruppelt of the Air Technical Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Onto, on September 30, 1952. Captain 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 furnish reports on flying saucers. Ruppelt is under the impression that Mr. Lang made the story up or picked it up from some magazine or newspaper article sometime back. Both Colonel Young and Captain Ruppelt are thoroughly familiar with Bureau policy pertaining to flying saucers. 102-83894-300 Attachments (2) RECORDED - 116 OCT 141052k 30% 6 0vi 07K 2 9 1952 INDEXED - 116y -60 23 whit

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OCT 231952 REC'D BELMONT F. В. I. USTICE Ост 8. 4 02 PM *52 REC'O-TOI SON'S OFFICE 9 oct 1,54 PM °52 1. U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE Ост RECEIVED-LAD FBI DEPT. OF JUSTI 9 9 35 АМ °52 29. Hd st 2l 22 1°0 NOSIVIT NOIT 100 RECEIVED - NICHOLS F. B. I U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE Ост 10 10 34 АМ '52 •

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Memorandun for Mr. A. H. Belmont, 10/8/52 Colonel Young suggested that further contact be made with Mr. Albert Chop of the Office of Public Information, Office of the Secretary of Defense, who represents the Air Force in public relations contacts pertaining to flying saucer matters. Mr. Chop was contacted and aduised that he was familiar with the attached "New Yorker" magazine article. He advised that Lang had gathered most of the material about two years ago when considerable publicity regarding flying 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 Mr. Chop for further current information. Mr. Chop advised that he gave Lang some routine items of interest regarding flying saucer complaints and investigations by the Air Force, but that he instructed Mr. Lang not to contact the Air Technical Intelligence Center for further Mr. 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. Mr. 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. Mr. Chop advised that, if 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 flying saucers. He stated that he could make this contact without indicating in any way the Bureau has contacted him. He was advised that his offer of cooperation was appreciated, but that it was not desired that he make such an inquiry at the present time. There is attached a current mimeographed form containing current information regarding the whole flying saucer matter which was turned over by Chop. This is the information which - 2 -

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Memorandum for Mr. A. H. Belmont, 10/8/52 is ordinarily given to newspaper reporters or writers make inquiry in the Office of Public Information. ACTION: who None. For your information. - 3 -

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STANDARD FORA NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : MR. A. H. BELMONT @Baf DATE: October 27, 1952 FROM : SUBJECT: V. P. KEAY FLYING SAUCERS Tolsen Lado K Clege Glavin Harbo SYNOPSIS: Rosen Tracy Mohr Air Intelligence advised of another creditable and Tele. Pm. unexplainable sighting of flying saucers. Air Intelligence Nease Candy still feels flying saucers are optical illusions or atmos- pherical phenomena but some Military officials are seriously considering the possibility of interplanetary ships. BACKG ROUND: 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 research pertaining to this problem is handled by the Air Technical Intelligence Center located at Wright-Patterson Air 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 C. M. Young, Executive Officer to Major General John A. Samford, Director of Intelligence, Air Force, advised on October 23, 1952, that another recent extremely creditable sighting had been reported to Air Intelligence. A Navy photographer, while traveling across the United States in his own car, saw a number of objects in the sky which appeared to be flying saucers. He took approximately thirty-five feet of motion-picture film of these objects. He voluntarily submitted the film to Air Intelligence who had it studied by the Air Technical Intelligence Center. Experts at the Air Technical Intelligence Center have advised that, after careful study, there were as many as twelve to sirteen flying objects recorded on this film; that the possibility of weather balloons, clouds or other explainable objects has been completely ruled out; and that they are at a complete loss to erplain this most recent li creditable sighting. The Air Technical Intelligence Center experts pointed out that they could not be optical illusions inasmuch as optical illusions could not be recorded on film. NWP/Sj RECORDER 162-83894-323 21 - 50 23 64 25 162 NOV 7 1952 386

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Memo to Mr. A. H. Belmont from V. P. Keay RE: FLYING SAUCERS Colonel Young acuised that Air Intelligence still feels that the so-called flying saucers are either optical illusions or atmospherical phenomena. He pointed out, however, that some Military officials are seriously considering the possibility of interplanetary ships. ACTION: None. This is for your information. - 2 -

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Oetober 28, 1952 Mr. Naruel-H. Reece, C•T•S•N• 1578 Van Fandt Road Cincinnati 31, Ohto Dear Mr. Reece: Flying SAuGERs I want to thank you for your letter and the enclosures which you forwarded to this Bureau. I have taken the liberty of forwarding a copy of your letter and the enclosures thereto to the Department of the Air Force, inasnuch as the matter referred to in your letter is within the jurisdiction of that Department. Sincerely yours, John Edgar HobbetEl - 67 Director 162-83894- 324 0C.L30 1952 137 EHM: cem:mes INDEXED - 67 EX-120 Note: The Records Section has been unable to locate a cross reference on the name Narvel Woodrow Reece (64-32001-1-135, enclo page 7). In view of the information contained in 64-32001-1, it is not believed the reference will be pertinent in this instance. This action is being taken to expedite the Bureau's reply to the correspondent. Tile mentioned above concerns name check requests. 990N Мла делі3038 02 lin Tolson Ladd De imont clegs. Glavin HArbO Rosen Tracy Laughlin Kohr Tele. Rn. HolloRan Candy COMM -FBI ОСТ 2 9 1952 MAILED 26 67NOV 101952 3,86

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fan 24, 1953 tos angeley balif Nes John Edgar Hoover Federal Burean I Investigation washingto, D.C. Dear Mr. Hoover = Flying блисчео - This is bung wutter to you so that it may be forwarded to President Eisen homer if you feel it advisable; and to prevent any security leaks if suck trenomicion of mediage ie to be accomp lished. PURPOSE = A PLAN FOR BRINGING DOWN ONE OF THE STRANGE AIR VEHICLES AS SIGHTED OVER JAPAN AND ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD; AND THEN TO BE STUDIED BY OUR SCIENTISTS. EQUIPMENT NEEDED = 1, GUIDED MISSILES = that may be quided from the ground or a Mother Ship or made to home on these strange objects through Radar en Radio 2 A DEVICE n 2 DEbs Ut NELICE Which when sighted from Ground in Twilight or Darkness resembles OureED of these Cratt as to = Shape Shape size Lights and НЬ ЗОИЕС Flying Chareter - iS fies Use May be necessary lot crutt, Ballon THIS Of a high tlying Zephin, 15 the Jet crift, Hehcopter or other. RECORDED, 60 FEB 9 1953 INDEXED • 91 91 {2-Y83894 325och FEBL2,1953; 18 Next Shee t

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Equip. Needed it.) 3. Below the Decoy = Highly accurate guns, cannons or other necessary weapons which are constantly trumed on our Decoy or adjacent Area to decoy 4. Highly Secret and Stalled Personnel = To prevent any leak as to plen, and able to carry out operation to be successful on the first trial if possible, Plan = send Decay up in an Hrea Known to have consistenly seen these strange objects, Sent ta predetermined Altitude, and Known flying patterns, So that Gun Crews below are alert to let go instantaneously when strange Craft approaches to investigate oum Decoy. Decoy and our Ground operators should be in an Area where we can retrieve the Fallen Object. of course if it is Known that these objects are from other planets the need for bringing one down is not immediately imperative, Respectfully submitted to he fencended If you don't on ot outie Kanter % Hollywood College 2009 Ninth St. hos Angeles, Calif., Caly.

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COPY: f cr TO: MR. A. H. BELMONT FROM: V. P. KEAY SUBJECT PREYINE SAUCERS" PHENOMENA; PROPOSED STUDY ON THE INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE DATE: December 5, 1952 Pursuant to instructions, Suvervisor M.W. Kuhrtz of the Liaison Section attended the Intelligence Advisory Committee (IAC) meeting on December 4, 1952. None of the agenda items are of direct interest to the Bureau; mena. He said that a recent presentation of a theory on made by a German atomic scientist, wh ch fact has cased the British to initiate considerable intelligence effort into this matter. According to Mr. Chadwell, efforts are being made to obtain the ferman scientist's paper on this theory. Also, it was stated that a recent "saucerg" obser- vation in Africa presents some evidence that the "saucers" are not a me- which theory has been held to date by the Air Force. Instead, this latter incident indicated the possibility of the "saucers" being a scientific development. The details of this African observation were not presented; however, appropriate contact will be made by the Bureau's Liaison Section with the Air Force to determine the details of this latter report. As a result of the above, the Military members suggested a logical approach which would call for a group of scientists to make a study of the new "saucers" data in an effort to identify the phenomena. If an identification can be made by the scientists and it can be deter- mined that the "saucers" are a scientific development, then IAC should determine a further course of action for the U.S. Government. It was further suggested that the IAC should only concern itself with this matter on the basis that a competent scientific group might determine the "sauce "saucers" to be a scientific development under the control of our enemy Dr. Chadwell was directed to draft a paper on this problem for N IAC consideration. Upon receipt of this draft, appropriate Bureau re- commendations will be made prior to IAC approval. ACTION: Liaison will obtain the details of the "flying saucers" 118-2 observation in Africa from the Air Force.• MWK: 1w 62 - 90 ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED DATE 5hIl84 BY SPlapk/alm сомр. # 245,536 194. 53 FEB 16 1953l 62-83894- • NOT RECORDED 146 JAN 6 1953 INITIRES ON ONIGINAL ORIGINAL

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COPY:fer TO: MR. A. H. BELMONT DATE: December 23, 1952 FROM: V. P. KHAY SUBJECT: PROPOSED STUDY ON THE "FILYING SAUCERS" PHENOMENA; INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE OFIYiNG Referenco is made to my memorandum December 5, 1952. You will recall that at an Intelligence Advisory Committee (IAC) meeting held December 4, 1952, Dr. H.M. hadwell, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) directed tino memorsi attention to some nepeots of the "flying, saucers" phenomena. He made reference to a presentation of a theory on which had been made by a German atomic scientist and which fact had caused the British to initiate considerable intelligence effort into the matter. Chadwell also made reference to a recent "saucers" obser- vation in Africa. He did not furnish details on the African observation. The Liaison Agent contacted Messes. Ralph Clark, (b) (3) (A) and "icherd Helms, all of the CIA, for the purpose of obtaining additionel details concerning the report which centered in Africa. These Individuals furnished information reflecting that a few weeks ago an explosion of large proportion was picked up on several seismographs and it was indicated that the explosion was centered in central Afbica. According to Helms and Clark, reports of unknown reliability were re- ceived indicating that the explosiong might have emanated from a flying saucer. More recent reports received from a broad indic: that the (b) (3) (в) annanbs had nicked un an explosion of a meteor. (b) (3) (B) The Liaison "gent inquired regarding the "saucers" theory which reportedly was presented by a German atomic scientist. Clark advised that the report on the scientist had not been received by the CIA as yet. ACTION: This matter will be followed by the Liaison Agent for the pur-ly Dose of obtaining additional details concerning the "saucers" theory of the German scientist. F SJP :1W ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED PEREI' IS UNCLASSIFIED DATE 5/ul8x BY SP-1 god/ala .Comp. # 245,536 62-83894- MOT RECORDED 146 JAN 6 1953 INITIALS ON ORIGINAL 56 JAN 12 1953 N - 81606 - 79 ORIGINAL FILED M

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KICORDED 04 - 92874-326 Da te: February 11, 1953 gOT: X3 To : Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25, D• C• From : John Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Subject: FLYING DISCS MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING There are attached for your information in the captioned matter a Photostat of a letter dated January 20, 1953, received by this Bureau from Mr. Robert D. Wolf, 19 North Forsythe Street, Franklin, Indiana, with the enclosures referred to therein, and a copy of this Bureau's reply to Mr. Wolf. No investigation is being conduoted by this Bureau in this matter. 1 radar Tolson Nichola Belmont Glavin_ Rosen tracy. Laughlin Mohr Tele. Rm._ Hollonan Candy ЕНи: ете COMM - FBI FEB 1 1 1953 MAILED 30 fior O FEB 191953

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He 4 2-93.314-326 January 27, 1953 90T-X3 Mr. Robert D. Wolf 19 North Forsythe Street Franklin, Indtong Dear Mr. Wolf: Your letter dated January 20, 1953, has been received, together with enclosures. Al though I would like to be of service in conneation with your request, I would like to point out that the FBI is strictly a fact-finding agenoy and it is not within the scope of its presaribed authority to make evaluations or draw conclusiona as to the character or integrity of any organization or individual. I know you will understand the reason for this rule and will ap- preciate my inability to be of assistance to you in this regard. The Itterature and letter you forwarded are being returned. Ma55 bupG Sincerely yours, I COMM EBI JAN 2 8 1953 MAILED 20 Engi gouyes (2) RECL John Edgar Hoover Director -41 Tolson Ladd Nichols Hielmont legR Havin larbo. Rosen Tracy Laughlin linterrowd ele. Rm. Soman ndy with copy of incoming and copy of letter co - New Haven, with copy of incoming and copy of letter signed by Albert K. Bender. ATTENTION SAC'S: (seennert page) DIC:dep: bkh m 2 79 U pedo

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REVEIVE HALINDOM FBI Jra § DEPT OF JUSTICE: JAN 28 1 32 PM °53 JAN 29 5 18 PM °53 PECO ESPIONAGE S DEP: UF JUSTICE WirED 50 1VЙ S 8 1823 CONAR CBI EOGRDED-37

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ATTENTION SAC'S: Correspondent also enclosed a copy of the January 19, 1953 issue of "Space Review" , the publication of The International Flying Saucer Bureau, indicating the address as Post Office Box 241, Bridgeport, Connecticut. This small periodical contains news of various I.F.S.B. groups throughout the United states and England and news items relating to flying saucers. No references can be located in Bufiles on the I.E.S.B.; "Space Review" or Albert K. Bender.

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JOHNSON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL DEFENSE MONROE AND JACKSON STREETS FRANKLIN, INDIANA ROBERT D. WOLF Director 20 January 1953 Mr. J. Edgar Hoover Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington, D. C. 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. We have been having some success with our Ground Observation Corps as we have conn four (4) posts here in the county. *S. F. b. B. BRidGepoRT Last Fall I was contacted by one of our local business men wenting to know if I would be interested in joining the International Flying Saucer Bureau. I told him that I would and did join with the idea fully in mind of having the local people who are interested in Flying Saucers also work in our Civil Defense Program. We are only too willing to co-operate in 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 #31. I am enclosing a letter which was received last October, as well as the current issue of SPACE REVIEW. Would like to know if this organization has been cleared or is subversive in any way• 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 require the enclosures please return them. end - net to corner, ENCLO. ATTACIEND N D Home Address: 19 North Forsythe St. Franklin, Indiana. CLICE n 2 056 162:83891-326 16.1953 13 RECORDED-84 INDEXED-84 SOL: X3

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ALBERT K. BENDER President and Editor MAX KRENGEL Vice-Pres. and Treas. ALAN C. RIEVMAN Secretary FRED J. BENDER Historian The International Flying Saucer Bureau но солении INTERNATIONAL "All is possible to one who believes" HEADQUARTERS P. O. BOX 241 BRIDGEPORT Z, CONN. U. S. A. * Great Britain Branch 71 Chedworth Road October 26, 1952 Horfield, Bristol 7, England INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ROBERT N. WEBSTER Editor. "Fate" Magazine WILSON "BOB" TUCKER Author — Editor of Science Newsletter ELLIOTT ROCKMORE Editor - Publisher "Saucer Review" GEORGE D. FAW CETT Lecturer - Sauceriana Collection STANLEY E. CROUCH Editor - Science and Culture Magazine FRANKLIN M. DIETZ. Editor and Publisher "Science - Fantasy and Science Fiction" BRITISH REPRESENTATIVE E. L PLUNKETT Retired Capt. 8th Army Mr. 1. H. Frahm, 949 B. Jeffer. street, Fracklin, Indiana Dear Mr. Frahm: nce again I am happy to write to you about & and your fine work in helping our organization grow larger and stronger. In your last letter you asked what course of action your club should take in connection with IFSB. I would su gest the following: (1.) Appoint a local Chairman of the IFSB in Franklin, Indiana. Also appoint a local treasurer and secretary. Hold your meetings at least twice a month, where you can discuss saucer happenings and club activities.. Use & local hall, or better yet, hold the meetings at each others homes. It and when you form your own city group, a certain portion of the club memership fee may oe retained by you to help your cause. - (5) . Mr. Pick Campbell, is an International Officer n IFSB and should be paid such respect at all jour gatherings. We will do any post card printing you desire or cards of similar size. (6) . You can print your club activities in "Space Review". (7) • Get contributions from your members to help you get formed.

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The International Hlying Saucer Bureau "All is possible to one who believes" ALBERT K. BENDER Presidens and Editor MAX KRENOEL Vice-Pres. and Tress. ALLAN C. RIEMAN Secretary P. O. BOX 241 BRIDGEPORT 2, CONN U.S. A. AK ) II (8). Report to IFSB all reports and sightings in your area. However, first put the sightings before your group and let them judge whether they are authentic or not. (9). Keep a record of all clus members in your area and their activities as fal as IFSB in concerned. (10). Cotain if possible (merely a suggestion), a tape recorder so that you can send actual voice to IFSB headquarters. In this way, I as President, could send messages for you to play at your local meetings. In the future I may even pay your city a visit and attend one of sour meetings. These are all merely sug estions for you to ponder over if you decide to adopt any of them please consult with Indiana Representitive, Mr. Campbell. After you have this, set in touch with me at once. sincerely hope that these suggestions will help you wing some move as to what your local group will do, Forever Looking Up, Albert K Bender) Albert K. Sender President

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онд. • Relurreal Space Review 1-26-53 Copyright 1953 by ALBERT K. BENDER VOL. II, No. 1 January, 1953 IFSB OF BRITAIN ORGANIZES Capi. E. L. Plunkett Appointed British Representative. The IFSB has finally been organized in Great Britain with retired Capt. E. L. Plun- kett, of the 8th Army as British Represen- tative. Mr. Plunkett resides at 71 Ched- worth Rd., Horheld, Bristol 7, England Denis, son of Mr. Plunkett, is the assistant representative, but is now serving his country in the Royal Air Force. Rep. Plunkett has shown great interest and foresight in forming the IFSB in the British Isles. Numerous articles have ap- peared in leading newspapers through his efforts. He is planning on using local halls and auditoriums to give lectures and show patures with the aid of an edipiascope. elso plans to give talks at the local of that ity which is a semi- war veterans type of society Many prople in the British Isies 04V contacted Mr. Plunkett showing great. a terest in IFSE Most of these people ar very learned individuals such as officers in the Armed Forces, members of the British Inter-Planetary Society, Aero-Dynamists, newspaper reporters, and flying saucer en- thusiasts. At present Mr. Plunkett is holding weekly meetings at his home, where they fiscuss IFSB and flying saucers in general For further information about our Brit- Representative see page twelve of this LUIS LUHRING NAMED PUERTO RICAN REPRESENTATIVE Mr. Luis Luhring of Punta Santiago, Puerto Rico, has accepted the position of Representative for the island of Puerto Rico. He will handle all IFSB business in that place. Write to Box 23, Punta Santi- ago, Puerto Rico. Mr. Luhring is a very capable man and will aid the IFSB greatly Bridgeport, Conn., U.S.A FRANKLIN, INDIANA JOINS EN MASSE Busmess Men and Public Officials Join IFSB To Form Own City Group The City of Franklin, Indiana, has gone out fully for the IFSB and is now the only ity in the world that has the most mem- ers in our organization. Through the great efforts and work of Mr. Louis Frahm, susiness man; Mr. Jack W. Moore, police- nan; Mr. Robert Wolf, civilian defense director, and Mr. Dick Campbell, IFSB Representative for Indiana, this great ac- complishment was made possible. At this publication, Franklin can claim 20 mem- hers with ten from nearly towns, giving a total of 30. Since all this interest has been aroused Mr. Frahm plans to form a city group with their own chairman, secretary ind treasurer. Among the members you vill find policemen, librarians, mechanics, ommercial pilots, business men, bus driv- rs, rudents, etc. The group plans to pur- hase a telescope of suitable power. In ad lition to this they plan to nig up a 3¼ x 1¼ Grafiex camera with an optical type new finder and screen door handle on each ide for easy handling. This is the equip- ment they plan to start with. Later, if fi- nances permit, they may build a portable radar set Franklin. Indiana, and nearby towns, have been fortunate in having had at least our sightings this past summer Two were witnessed by Mr Frahm and Mr. Moore. Reports of these sightings are reviewed in his issue of Space Review. OUR PRESIDENT HEARS FROM PROF. EINSTEIN Mr. Al K. Bender, President of IFSB, received a letter from Professor Einstein with this message: "Having no experience and only superficial knowledge in the field I regret not to be able to comply with vour requests. Mr. Bender wanted his opinion on the flying saucers. This was he Professor's reply 62-83894-326

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SPACE REVIEW SAUCERS IN THE NEWS • MAYAGUEZ, PUERTO RICO, Oct. 3, 1992- WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 16, 1952--The Strange objects were sighted by two per- Navy announced that it launched rockets sons in Mayaguez on Oct. 3, they were from giant balloons, high above the Norti cruising East and were red in color. It was geomagnetic Pole, and sent them to alti about 10:30 p.m. when they were sighted. tudes of about 40 miles. The balloons were as tall as a 10-story building. NORWAY AND SWEDEN, Oct. 13, 1952- During October the Norwegian Govern- PARIS, FRANCE, Oct. 7, 1952 - A flying ment stated that a strange object resemb- saucer was sighted over Southern France ling a saucer landed on Norwegian soil. by two Air France pilots. German experts are claiming that the de- vices are of Russian origin, and the des- WESTERN KOREA FRONT, Oct. 29, 1952 cription given by Norway fits the descrip- U.S. troops saw a half-dozen mysterious tion given by German experts. Stockholm, ›park-throwing "cartwheels" over the wes. Sweden, has also been sighting strange tern front of Korea. They were as the eye objects. sees, 18 inches in diameter, moving in a 15-foot circle. MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, Sept. 13, 1952 -A young woman sighted a noiseless GAILLAC, SOUTH OF FRANCE, Oct. 29, green ball flying too fast to be a plane or a 1952 For the second time in two weeks, meteor. She said it smelled like a rotten 20 townspeople of Gaillac saw a series of egg white circular objects, slightly swollen at the center, spinning across the sky, they STUTTGART, GERMANY, Nov. 1, 1952 were flying in formation of two and were At the recent westing of the third Inter- grouped around something that looked national Astronautical Congress in Ger- like a giant flying cigar. As the objects many where 200 scientists from 12 coun- passed overhead they let fall a sort of tries gathered they stated that saucers are string of bright white threads, which set- not from Mars or any other planet. They tled gently on trees and telephone lines said they are merely optical and aman- When the phe lusions. the mete rope cried to pie o then upo NEw YORK-A terrific air picked up some of the thread said: "It ook place over a small area of looked like glass wool and it melted away Long Island. N.Y., which broke windows, almost as soon as it was touched." racked sidewalks and caused general OLORON, FRANCE, Oct. 17, 1952-About manic. There were ne. planes around or beduled at that time, a dozen people, including a schoolmaster, saw flying saucers surrounding a long cigar NTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, NEW YORK, like object flying through a clear sky at Oct. 16, 1952-A blue flame flashed over about 6,000 feet. International Airport at 7:33 p.m. It was a fier ball-like object. Hayden Planeta- NEw ZEALAND- The clippings and stor- 11R925 Ahrial stated it may have been the ies from New Zealand are swamping our office and are so numerous that we must a of a meteor. TORELUFVE, YORK, ENGLAND, Sept 20, devote a whole page to them in our April issue. "Mainbrace " RAF pilots sighted exerhite object at 15,000 feet. The obiect was silver in color and circular. It maintained a slow forward For more detailed information on any if the above. please write to IFSB. speed before beginning to descend, swing- ing like a pendulum. It followed the air- craft, revolved on its own axis at times. and then took off Please date your clippings that you send to us. and note the source. ,

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SPACE REVIEW SUTTON, WEST VIRGINIA MONSTER MAY BE "COLLIER'S" ROCKET! Rev. S. L. Dow, Washington, D.C., Representative, IFSB I have personally photographed flying saucers six times and personally photographed the place where one landed in Charleston, West Virginia. I also talked to two eye-witnesses. I saw and talked to a police officer who was burned by one in Wheeling, West Virginia. . My own cousin was the doctor who treated him. I attempted to photograph one going over Melessa Pass, 5000 feet up in the Blue Ridge mountains, as I was at a height of 2500 feet at Wahala Glen just directly opposite from Melessa Pass. The picture was not too good due to the mist from the mountains. The object that landed at Charleston, West Virginia was described as a large metal ball, throwing off a white light and after landing, two small men in red emerged from a trap in the top and climbed up a tree to look around. Seeing people watching them, they got back in and took off. We can prove what this was: In the attempt to shoot rockets to the moon, there is a device with the motors on the wings and the body of the device is a jet propelled apparatus which throws off a large metal shaped disc which throws off a red color from the center which when reflected could easily be taken for some sort of a small person. This was described in Collier's magazine of October 11, 1952. According to the Washington Daily News, the monster seen at Sutton, West Virginia and in the shape of a man. Two lights fashed from side to side, the machine made a noise like gas escaping, and a sharp sickening dor as about." Sounds somewhat the same. The United States may be experie with something that the public is not aware of, and it is doing its best to keep i a The age of rocket ships is just around the corner. CIVILIAN SAUCER INVESTIGATION OF NEW ZEALAND CONTACTS IFSB The Civilian Saucer Investigation of New Zealand was set up in New Zealand on • October 13, 1952. They plan to prove or disapprove the existence of saucers. It has no affiliation with the Government, the armed forces, or to any society to which its members may belong. Most of the member have been studying fying saucer reports for at least five years. They represent all interested parties astronomers, scientists, aviators, and the man in the street. The committee consists of Mr H. H. Fulton, a sergeant in the R.N.Z.A.F. attached to engineering, who is the President of CSI of NZ; Mr. R. J. Lavaris, a member of the Territorial Air Force, who is the secretary of CSI of NZ; Mr. G. H. Gilmore, avia- tion engineering inspector; D. Lavaris, a student studying for a science degree; and E. J. Greager, an astronomer and engineer Aims of the committee are to correspond with kindred bodies overseas, and to ulti- mately find the origin of flying saw ers and the omparison. Mr. H. H. Fulton, and Mr. R. J. Lavare di e been made members of the International Council of IFSB. We hope to establish frien Hiy relations with this society and get a rep sentative in New Zealand, CSI sent to IPSP a large map of New Zealand showing all spots where saucers have been sighted with story of each sighting. A complete report • on this will be made in our next issue. W h CSI of New Zealand the best of luck and hope they will be a success.

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SPACE REVIEW EDITORIAL In 1492 Columbus discovered a new world after traveling thousands of miles across the great expanse of unknown waters called the Atlantic Ocean. It was a great adventure, yet one that was laughed at, ridiculed, and even spoke of as a "folly" Here was a small group of men searching for what lay beyond the known, endeavor- ing to unfold the mysteries of lands that were not supposed to exist. All they had were three small ships laden with provisions that they estimated would last the journey. The seas were infested with monsters, so the skeptics said, and the world was flat with a dropping off place. Columbus proved these fallacies to be wront, when he landed in the West Indies. The years directly ahead of us will see another great adventure such as this. A small group of men will assemble in a certain designated place, climb into their ship, a ship vastly different than that of Columbus's time. This ship will be a rocket shop, and its oc- cupants will shoot off into the vast sea of space to find new worlds, new peoples, and new frontiers. They will be laughed at, they will be ridiculed, and the whole thing will be called the greatest "folly on earth, but will it be such? Time has proven that impossibilities become realities,- the automobile, the airplane, radio, telephone, telegraph, television, and the smashing of the atom are definite proof. All is possible to one who believes, —and I am a sound believer! * FROM THE ASSOCIATE EDITOR'S DESK The mysteries of space have long fascinated most people on earth. One need not be astronomer to gaze in awe at the wight which unfolds before the eyes as we gaze sky- on any clear night. he vastness of space is difficult to explain, even for astronomers. When distances ken of it is simpler for learned men to use the term "light years" than miles. The of celestial bodies suspended in space like our own earth are unknown. The are from millions on up. But they remain just that-guesses. who make our home on a mere cinder of matter in the eyes of space, cannot be naive enough to think that intelligent life exists only here. Those who believe that there is a purpose for everything which happens, should agree that these millions of bodies in space must serve more of a purpose than just twinkling brightly on a clear night. Published quarterly by Albert K. Bender, Editor; Max Krengel, Associate Editor; Printed by Reliable Press, Bridgeport, Conn. Subscription Price: four issues, to members, $1.00; to non members, $1.40 per year. Individual copies $.35. Exclusive publication of the IFSB P.O. Box 241, Bridgeport 2, Conn., U.S.A. Send all news and articles to this address.

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SPACE REVIEW SCIENCE FICTION NEWS Alan C. Rievman Victor Root, Illinois Rep. of IFSB, has some Science-Fiction mags for sale, or free in exchange. He is selling them for a small tee. Write to IFSB for address. The DECEMBER, 1952, issue of FATE magazine is a must to all IFSB members and offcers. It contains an article by Cur- tis Fuller, entitled, "Let's Get Straight About the Saucers. . A complete detailed story of the incident of the scoutmaster described in our January issue, is discussed with a picture of the scoutmaster. SUB- SCRIBE TO FATE MAGAZINE AND KEEP UP TO DATE ON THE SAUCERS. Write to 806 Dempster Street, Evanston, Illinois New Pocket Books on Stands: Dell No. 627, When Worids Collide by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer. Pocket Bool No. 908, "New Tales of Space and Time" dited by Raymond J. Healy. Thanks to Ray Palmer for our letter in the December issue of "Other Workds' Clark Publishing Co., 806 Dempster St.. Evanston, Illinois. Let's subscribe. NEW BOOK BY VIKING PRESS "Across the Space Frontier", edited by Cornelius Ryan, $3.95, Viking, New York RANDOM HOUSE HAS DONE IT AGAIN WITH: "By Space Ship to the Moon", written by Jack Coggins and Fletcher Pratt, foreword by Willy Ley. $1. SCIENCE FICTION NEWS-LETTER, by our Council Member, "Bob" Tucker, P.O. Box 702, Bloomington, Illinois. THE UNITED STATES ROCKET SO. CIETY, Box 29, Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Hollywood is coming out with two good movies: "War of the Worlds" and "The Conquest of Space". SAUCER REVIEW, by Elliott Rock- more, a member of our Council. P.O. Box 148, Wall St. Station, New York S, N.Y Owners of tape recorders or wire re- corders: Join T.R.I. (Tape-respondence International. Send your voice to your cor- respondents) 3488—22nd St., San Fran- cisco 10, Calif. BORDERLAND SCIENCES RE- SEARCH ASSOCIATES located at 3524 Adams Ave., San Diego 16, California, would like to have IFSB members join their society. Many new Science Fiction Mags are hit- ting the newsstands and some are good while others are the usual run. A few of the better ones are: Tops in SF; Science Fiction Quarterly and Fantastic. Two good S-F books: "Robots Have No Tails" by Lewis Padgett and "Player Pi- ano" by Kurt Vonnegut. Both humorous line. The officers of IFSB are planning on is- suing a 12-page booklet sometime next year with a complete record on all saucer reports that they now have collected. This booklet will not be a regular issue of pace Review'' ', but a separate issue and will sell for S0c to everyone. Our Presi dent, Mr. Bender, will write the foreword with comments throughout by officials of IFSB. The bookiet will be entitled: IFSB REPORTS ON THE SAUCERS. If inter- ested, write! We would like members and officers to send in snapshots of themselves so that when the time comes for us to print pic- tures in Space Review, we will have the photos available. MENTION SPACE REVIEW" when writing to any of above mentioned pub- lications. This page will be eliminated in future ssues, and will be replaced by articles on saucers"

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6 SPACE REVIEW "MY THEORY" by IFSB Members , THEORY NO. 6-Submitted by BARBARA KNORR, Member from Connecticut Everybody seems to believe that the "saucers" , whatever they are, come from this Solar System. I do not believe any other planet but ours can support intelligent life. Per- haps plant life, but not human. I do believe that if our planet can support life, why not other planets in other Solar Systems. I do not believe that these people wish to destroy us because if they had they could have done so long ago. Also, how do we know that these things we see are not beings themselves. THEORY NO. 7- Submitted by Representative LOUIE MASONICK, JR., of Minnesota My theory is one most IFSB members seem to have. First, I believe they are from an- other planet. All those stars must have something going around them. All those celestial bodies must be up there for some reason, besides to look at. Then, also, they may even be from our Solar System. I do not think an official agency of our government should come out and say— we do not know what they are and whether or not they are a menace." The best way to reveal the objects would be through clubs like the IFSB. I do not believe that they are a menace. I think there is intelligent life on them and that they are just observing us. THEORY NO. 8 Submitted by Representative ALAN RIEVMAN of Connecticut My theory on the origin of the dying saucers" is that they are definitely real and are from one of the planets of our Solar System. I do not believe that they are from one of the other Solar Systems. These "neighbors" probably thought that our planet could not have intelligent life upon it, but with the first atomic explosion they may have changed their minds I am sure that they are not from Earth because if they were ours it would be impos- sible to keep it quiet and if they were from a foreign government they wouldn't be flying over the United States. They would risk being shot down and their secret revealed to us. THEORY NO. 9-Submitted by Representative VICTOR ROOT of Illinois My theory is that the "Aying saucers" are manned ships controlled and operated by intelligent creatures who are scouting our world. They will not try to make contact with us for many reasons. One is that we are too warlike and emotional. Another is that we have diseases which may harm or even kill them. Some day when we reach out and touch the planets we may meet them. A race of intelligent creatures other than ourselves, cer- tainly does exist. THEORY NO. 10-Submitted by ALAN STAZER, Member from California I think that the "flying saucers are from the solar system of ALPHA or PROXIMA CENTUARI. Most likely the 3rd or 4th planet. The planet is probably about 4000 miles in diameter and two-thirds as big as the earth. Some other reasons are that Centauri is too far distant for observation of such a small body as a planet. This star is of about the same size and the same spectral, type-GO, as the Sun. Editor's Note: WOW! All theories become the property of IFSB and cannot be returned.

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SPACE REVIEW 7 HIGHLIGHTS ABOUT REPRESENTATIVES DICK CAMPBELL, Rep. Indiana Rep. Campbell has written us many interesting letters and aided in making his home town of Franklin the only city in the world with the most IFSB members. At present it totals over twenty. He was assisted by Mr. Louis Frahm, anc Mr. Jack Moore of that place. . * J. RONALD ALBERT, rep. Ontario, Canada-Will be appointed Representative of CANADA AT LARGE. Doing a fine job. Would like more Canadians to join club. VICTOR ROOT, Rep. Illinois One of our most valuable representatives. He has spent much time preparing a map of the United States showing the places where saucers have seen aghted. He is quite a poet, too; see his poem in this issue. Mr. Root presented th with this saucer map. Ve are proud of it We are sorry to say that Mr. Root ma have to move to California in the near future. It will be very hard to replace such an . *• EARI A HROADDUS, Rep. Kentucky Obtained two new members for IFSB. One of the se a Mrs. Glenn C. Fuller, saw a flying saucer. Her report will be in our next 183128 save Review". Mr. Broaddus is spreading the word about IFSB. * DIANE BUCHANAN, Rep. Iowa- Obtained a new member, and has clippings she in- tends to send in to IFSB . * SAIL SPRAGUE, Rep. Wisconsin Gail is quite the cartoonist. She sent in a cartoo ot us whach really made the International Staff roll off their chairs. She showed the parlo of a home with the front door open, a strange looking creature had walked in the door leaving muddy tracks on the floor. Outside can be seen a saucer don't care where you're housewife approaches the creature and this is what she says: from. Look at my clean rug.'" She also sent us a fine poem that appears in this issue. Gail obtained a new member for us also. She sure is showing fine interest * * ALLAN LEVINSKY, Rep. Maine Claims that very few people are seeing saucers in Maine. Is doing his best to get people interested in IFSB. ROBERT R. RITTER, Rep. Tennessee Chalks up another member for IFSB. LUIS LUHRING, Rep. Puerto Rico -Mr. Luhring has sent us numerous clippings from Puerto Rico about saucers. He plans to get as many people as possible to join IFSB. He says that the interest in saucers is as great in Puerto Rico as anyplace else. * ., the first member of the clergy, Reverend Daw. Mr. Daw, as he prefers to see his actual photos of saucers, that he took himself * state and had 50 post cards printed and plans to mail them out, in his state. I e are not getting any reports from some of our Kepresentatives. It is absolutel lecesar, that we hear from you, so please do your best to get those monthly reports roll mg in on time.

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SPACE REVIEW DIRECTORY OF REPRESENTATIVES The following are additional representatives since our last publication. BRITISH REPRESENTATIVE-Edgar L. Plunkett, 71 Chedworth Rd., Horfield, Bristol 7, England; Assistant Representative for Britain Denis Plunkett PUERTO RICAN REPRESENTATIVE-Luis Luhring, Box 23, Punta Santiago COLORADO-Verna M. Hampton, 4245 Alcott St., Denver MAINE-Allan Levinsky, 59 Atlantic St., Portland MISSOURI--Ralph Hetzel, 6 Scarsdale, St. Louis 17 NEW JERSEY-August C. Roberts, 443 Ogden Ave., Jersey City NORTH CAROLINA-David T. Benton, Box 430, E.C.C., Greenville OHIO Robert C Schnelle, Sr., 714 McMakin Ave., Cincinnati OREGON-G. L. McColly, S24 Jersey St., Suverton DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA-Rev. S L. Daw, 5119--7th St., N.W., Washington WEST VIRGINIA-Gray Barker, Box 981, Clarksburg Above names will not be publubed agam. Additional names in future issues. Anyone that wishes to correspond with other members will please send as permission to print your name and address so that others will know that you desire correspondence. We do not publish lists of our members names and addresses without permission from them. LET'S LOOK AT THE MAGAZINES READERS DIGEST FOR JULY 1992 -Two articles: "Have We Visitors from Space," and "Flying Saucers- New in Name Only. TRUE MAGAZINE, SEPT 1952-- The Flying Saucers and the Mysterious Little Men." OCT. 1952—"We Flew Above Flying Saucers. DEC, 1952—"What Radar Tells About Flying Saucers. QUNK MAGAZINE, OCT. 20, 1952-"Moonbound," Page 18. COLLIER'S, OCT. 18, 1952-"Man on the Moon." OCT. 25, 1952— "More About Man on the Moon." PI. MAGAZINE, NOV. 1952—"How Do Saucers Fly?" SIR MAGAZINE, DEC. 1952—"Flying Saucers and the Air Around Us." MR. MAGAZINE, JAN. 1953—"Is Washingion Afraid of Flying Saucers?" MAN TO MAN MAGAZINE, JAN 1953 "Flying Saucers Are Not New." THE MYSTERY OF OTHER WORLDS REVEALED-A Fawcett Book No. 166. Ex- cellent. A four star edition one of the hinest to date in the pulp line. Cost 75c. We dvise all saucer-minded folk to pet this magazine. It is only once in a great while thar a publisher puts out such a fine publication. Contains news of Space Travel; Flying Saucers; and Rocket Dearlopment. These magazines are in the IFSB LIBRARY as part of our collection. We will send written information to anyone thai may have questions on above magazines. Coming in April "SPACE REVIEW "SAUCERITIS" by John Armitage of England. An article that will make you really THINK! A COMPLETE LISTING OF ALL OF OUR OFFICERS AND COUNCIL MEMBERS

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SPACE REVIEW TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE I.F.S.B.- GREETINGS FROM ENGLAND Capt. Edgar L. Plunkett, British Representative Are we on the verge of a breath-taking discovery? Yes, I believe we really are! To quote Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, "Too many good men have seen Flying Saucers for us to dismiss them lightly as hallucinations." The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have produced a number of astonishing dis- coveries notably the dreaded atom bomb, and also has had to discard in many cases pre- viously held convictions such as that "matter is indestructible" Even the average layman today, due to increased educational facilities, and access to literature of all kinds, has a very good idea that life in all its forms consists of "energy" and that this energy somehow links back to some form of pulsating orbital structure like unto the universe, but on an infinitesimally smaller scale. Therefore, it is to me at least— quite believable that it is possible that somewhere something someone —has solved the riddle of this energy, etheric, electromagnetic, call it what you will. Having progressed so far, it follows that given elements capable of withstanding immense stresses and strains, the propulsion of what has become known as the "Flying Saucer" becomes a possibility. It is known that between the Sun, Moon, and our Earth, and presumably between other inter-planetary and possibly interstellar bodies there exists magnetic lines of force, thus if some form of aircraft or saucer has control of the means of attraction and repulsion, these lines of force which by the way never touch one another, would form the perfect highway along which to travel at the speed of light, and probably very much faster. It would also account for the capability of these so-called "saucers" to accomplish right-anglec turns, inasmuch that these known magnetic waves emanate in all directions. Therefore, from the point of view of the average thinking man in the street, I say, "I believe the #ying saucer does exist, and that the coming years will vindicate such men as Captain Mantell, Kenneth Arnold, and countless other pioneers in this field." In conclusion, may I say to all IFSB members at home and abroad carry on the good work, and above all, do not be disappointed, discouraged or deluded by the jeers and sneers of the ignorant so-called majority. The best of everything for the New Year ahead! Yours fraternally, E. L. PLUNKETT MYSTERIOUS CRAFT by Gail Sprague Out of the dark, mysterious, depths of space, Came strange looking craft at a tremen dous pace: Their course was true, the third planet from the sun, Their orders: Don't return until your task is done Down they descended; some got out. "Be back in 24 hours,' " the commander told the scout. Time went fast, all returned Off went the craft, bearing all they'd learned. The decision was reached, never again, On this small planet they'd ever land Wars, corruption, prejudice and greed, Made this the worst of all planets, all agreed. OUT THERE by Victor Root Out in space lies my destiny, Out there, beyond the clouds; Where winds have not yet blown, Where man has not yet gone; That's where I long to roam. Out in space lies my destiny. Out there, among the stars; Where night is forever ruling, Where solitude is soothing; That's where I long to roam. Give me a silver ship. To make the happy trip: Out there, among the stars.

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10 SPACE REVIEW SAUCER SIGHTINGS BY IFSB MEMBERS Exclusive! From Franklin, Indiana and Surrounding Towns SIGHTING NO. 4- On the morning of July 28, 1952 in the skies to the southeast and at times directly over Franklin, Indiana appeared three strange objects. Their flight was thorities, and members of the United States Army After notifying all proper authorities of the objects no definite steps were taken by the army or otherwise. The report is as follows: There were three objects, one larger and brighter than the two smaller objects. The larger of the three seemed to cast off a white yellowish light. Its pattern of fight seemed to be that of a circle. It seemed to always be keeping track of the two smaller objects. The two smaller objects cast off a distinctive light of their own, one being an orange hu‹ und the other a reddish color. The two smaller ones seemed to be in a dog fight all their own, since they executed barrel rolls, loop» and spins. They made turns of 90 degrees and 45 degrees without losing any degece of speed, as well as dancing up and down as if someone was playing with a giant yo-yo The objects made single sorties to the south completely out of sight, to return almost immediately into view again, joining the other in a neatly executed show of turns, loops and spins. We estimated their height at approxi- mately 15,000 der while their speed varied from an estimated 1500 miles per hour to an estimated 1000l ales per hour. Even with a pair of binoculars it was almost an impos- sibility to see mine any exact shape other than that they appeared to be round and fat as a sauce: They were observed for a period of four hours and fifteen minutes. Dawn came at 4 48 a.m. and all stars had gone around 5:00 a.m. At 5:03 a.m. it was bright day. light-and the three objects were still visible. Their color did not change in daylight At 5:11 a.m. the larger of the three objects was joined by the two smaller ones; the smaller objects one at a time disappeared ahove the larger, first the orange, then the red. After reming to envelope the two smaller abjects it moved up and to the west out of sight. The of the three objects and the disappearance of the larger took exactly 40 seconds. hiects were verified by: Edinburg Police Dept. Camp Atterbury, Ind.; Columbus Dept.; Seymour State Police Dept., Greensburg Police Dept. North Vernon Police Connersville Police Dept. Connersville State Police Post: Fort Wayne, Ind.; and Madison, Ind. Mr. Moore and M. Rund are IFSB members now SIGHTING NO. 5—Louie Masonick, Jr., Representative for Minnesota Siebred a round object Northeast of Lang Prairie, Minnesota about 2:30 p.m., April 20, 191 It was a dull gray color, traveling bout 250 MPH and when it ascended their was a low Ir was about 5,000 feet hig and was visable for about 45 seconds. Direc- tion of flight was from East to West in on firect path. SIGHTING NO. 6- Alan K. Stazer Member from California Sighted a disc shaped obje un the East of Los Angeles about 9:08 p.m. on Sep- tember 22, 1952. It was a yellowish white in color and remained in a stationary position for about 4 seconds. It was about 12 degrees above the horizon. It was about 50 feet in diameter and traveling due north When sending in your repor a the wanter. Thank you! on Suncer Sightings, please give the date that you

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SPACE REVIEW 11 EXCERPTS FROM A SUMMARY OF A FIVE-YEAR FLYING SAUCER INVESTIGATION By George D. Fawcett, Intemational Council, IFSB I have just decided to stop investigation that I began a little over hive years ago on one of the most fascinating mysteries of modern times, that being the well known "Flying phenomena. Since the summer of 1947 when the first saucer scare broke out in the United States, I have spent much of my time, money and energy seeking a solution to this riddle. While carrying on my private investigations I was able to interview several astronomers, scientists, pilots and guided missile experts, who had spotted these saucers or at least had been investigating or studying these strange objects. In addition to these interviews have talked to many eye-witnesses who had sighted these objects throughout the United States and have mailed questionnaires out to many others. I have kept bulletins and scrapbooks on the saucers for the past five years, and while going to college I wrote a six-page pamphlet entitled "The Flying Saucer Phenomena" for my frends, teachers, and classmates. I have lectured to several groups in Lynchburg. Though we been interested in this phenomena from the very first, my sighting of ar orange disk like globe which hovered for four minutes over the Lynchburg College ad ministration building in Lynchburg, Virginia, on the morning of July 6, 1951, has in- creased my interest threefold since then. That is one of my reasons for stopping my inves- tigation. It's really too big a job for one person to handle. We must realize that we are tealing with a phenomena that is as fantastic as it is fascinating. Many of the reports that sen able to gather in my collection tend to back this statement. landing men. This does seem the "frie ned in at that prina sa the are stil being seen everywhere, for longer periods of t se, and in groups instead of alone, as well as more reports of huge saucer or rocket shups Then, too, they seem to come and go at will, perhaps being stationed as satellites themselves I feel that our government must know someching about these saucers because in my opinion at this very moment the United States Gevernment is carrying on an educational program regarding interplanetary travel of our rountry. Perhaps space ships from other planets are already here! At any rate, whether they are trying to prevent religious con- troversy or panic or for any other motives which they might have, our government is still releasing, denying, suppressing and even plating reports at intervals for some reason. Regardless, the future will tell! In closing, I'd like to use a favorite phrase of Charlie Lineberry, Lynchburg College student who said, "things are really looking up." I wonder if some things aren't looking DOWN, too; Sooner or later we're bound to find out, and to this all I can say is, "the sooner, the better." EDITOR'S NOTE: Mr. Fawcett's discussions and opinions will be found in future issues of Space Review. ATTENTION MEMBERS AND OFFICERS If you would be interested in receiv- ing an emblem to wear on your coat lapel with our club letters "IFSB" engraved on a wucer background, we would be interested in knowing. We cannot order these emblems uniess we get enough people showing interest The price would be approximately $1.00 sach. Please let us know as soon as possible. Thank you

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12 SPACE REVIEW WE WANT YOU TO MEET EDGAR L. PLUNKETT, BRITISH REPRESENTATIVE Born at Bristol, Glos., England, on December 26, 1903. Covered mart parts of the world as a radio operator al sea from 1922 to 1936, including the US.A. notably New York, Boston, Baltimore Norfolk, Newport News, Tampa, Mobile, and many other ports. Has many interesting memories of the prohibition days, the gangster era, Jack Dempsey, Babe Ruth, Loi Gehrig and other notable highlights. Has worked for many years for Anglo-American friendship and still corresponds with friends here in U.S.A. Was called to service in 1939. posted in Egypt. Returned to England at te and of the war after four and a half years service overseas as a Captain. Now employed by his original firm as a clerk. He has a wife and three children, their ages are Denis 21, now with the RAF, Diana 18, and Michael 14. Hobbies are writing and reading and other journalistic yearnings including poetry, plus an unabated desire an travel, Since the formation of Civil Defense a year or so ago, he has become a qualibed instructor and lectures three evenings weekly to industrial personnel. Ar. Plunkett has shown great intere in IFSb activities and will without a dout rove to be our most valuable foreign resentativ ASSOCIATE EDITOR (Next Issue April 1, 1953) POST OFFICE BOX 241 BRIDGEPORT 2, CONN. U.S.A. Return Postage Guaranteed To: UNITED STATES PISTAGE ON 2 LENTS 2 Mr. Sobert D. Wolf 19 N. forsyth St. Franklin, Indiana 101553

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In Reply, Please Refer to File No. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION American Embassy 1, Grosvenor Square London, W. 1 STO A - AIR COURIER Date: To : From: Subject: February 17, 1953 Director, PBI Legal Attache London, England "FLYING SAUCERS" Major E. P. Walkers, Provo Marshall at the U. S. Air Force Base at Mildenhall, England, telephonically contacted writer on February 14, 1953, regarding the new or revived interest in "flying saucers." 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. This incident, according to Major Walkers, concerns an article or story on "flying saucers" which appeared in a small newspaper with limited circulation in the Township of Jeffersonville, Delaware Township, Sullivan County, New York. He was unable to recall the name of the newspaper but was certain it is the only one published in that area. The story appeared in one of the early 1947 issues or in one of the issues during the last three months of 1946. It was written by a member of the U. S.Armed Forces and of significance is the fact that subsequent 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 newspaper. Major Walkers states he is merely reporting this for what it may be worth and is being forwarded to the Bureau for any action con- sidered appropriate. - RUC - JAC: CFJ IPPROPRIATE AGENCIES IND FIELD OFFICES ICED BY ROUTING 5: P(S) OF DATE RECORDED-60 eitosa 3 16/53 EX-102 142-83894-327 FEBT 26 1953 0a i

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MAR 4 10 11 AM °53 PEC'O ESPIONAGE 5. D8P" AF DUSTICE W-R 3 4 09 PM °5S LIAISON SECTION FBI J. S. DEPT. OF JUISTICE

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68-83894 - 327 RECORDED - Date: To: EX-130 From : Subject: March 6, 1953 Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25, D. C. John Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation FLYING SAUCERS Tolson Ladd Nichols Belmont ClegR Glavin Harbo Rosen Tracy Laughlin Mohr Winterrowd Tele. Rm. Holloman Gandy- The following information has been recelved by this Bureau from its representative in London, England, con- cerning the captioned matter: Major E. P. Walkers, Provost Marshal, U. S. Air Force Base, MtIdenhall, England, telephont cally contacted vie writer on February 14, 1953, regarding the new or revived interest in "flying saucers." He stated he did not have any new information to report but he knew of an incident that took place several years ago which this Bureau might destre to chech. concerns an article or story on This incident, according flying saucers" to Major Walkers, which appeared in a small newspaper with limited circulation located at Jeffersonuille, Delaware Township, Sullivan County, New York. unable to recall the name of the newspaper but was certain it is the only one published in that The story appeared in one of the early 1947 issues or in one of the fasues during the last three montha of 1946. It was written by a member of the U. S. Armed Forces and of significance is the fact that subsequent issues failed a to follow it up by 0313038 Ур. д MÁI LÊD 6 MAR 9 - 1953 COMM - FBI WOOK 8G. Hd LE ЕНИ: eme UU MAR 11 1953

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1 TT 1823 COWW TEBT 1M5 0 - 1828 REVEIVE MAL ROOM FBI 1S DEPT OF JUSTICE MAR 9. 3 51PM °53 1050 093 ORECA SONGSLOP A39gS

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- carrying additional stories on "flying saucers." Also significant is the fact that it appeared in a small and practically unknown newspaper. Major Walkers states he is merely reporting this for what it may be worth. The above data is being furnished to you for your information and any action you destre to take in connection therewt th, inasmuch as thia Bureau is not conducting any in- vestigations relating to the captioned matter. •

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Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO , A. H. Belmonth DATE: March 10, 1953 FROM : L. H. Martin SUBJECT: FLYING SAUCERS JOHN BAILEY, INFORMANT Aolson Ladd Nichols Belmont CleBR Glavin Harbo Rosen Tracy Laughlin Mohr Winterrowd Tele. Re. Holloman. Gandy. John Bailey called from Bowie, Maryland, at 9:05 P.M., 3/9/5g to advise that he had just seen a flying saucer nea that city. He was vague as to details and nonresponsive as to where he was calling from and as to his residence. When asked where he planned to stay tonight, at least, in order that Air Force might interview him if deemed advisable, Bailey said the writer wanted to know too much and disconnected. Since no specific information was furnished and since the call may have been a prank, the Air Force was not advised. since no identifying information was obtained, no attempt was made to check Bureau records. Rec omm endati on: File. RECORDED-102 INDEXED-102 K2. 22794-328 51K MAR NAS1953 2 HM

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RECORDED-102 Date: To: From: Subject: -83894-328 March 12, 1953 Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25, D. C. John Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation FLYING SAUCERS Relatel At 9:05 p.m. on March 9, 1953, an individual giving his he had just seen a flying saucer near Bowle, Maryland. Mr. Bailey was vague as to any details in this matter and would not furnish any: information concerning his residence or the place from which he was making his telephone call. No additional pertinent information in this matter was furnished by Mr. Bailey• The above is being furnished to you for your infornation and assistance in the captioned matter. No investigation is being conducted by this Bureau concerning this matter. EHM: elk APPROFRIATS AGENCIES AND FIRED OFFICES ADVISED BY ROUTING SLIP (S) OF 3-9 20 DATIC Tolson Ladd Nichols Belmont CleRR Glavio Harbo Rosen Tracy Laughlin. Mohr Winterrowd Tele. Rm. Holloman. Gandy- MAILED O MAR 1 3 1953 COMM-EBI 39% MAR 20 KM, 3 ĐЕb3 RECEIVED READING ROOM FBI. ACHOE HAR 12 6 23 PM '53 1400%

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TRANSLATION FROM 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 flying saucers. Dear Sir: In writing to you who directs the influential Office of Investigation 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 on the 8th floor of the Building of Departments (?). The reason for his detention was his possible collaboration with VLADIMIR VLASAV in "divulging to foreign goverments English aviation secrets".) In his attempt to get away, which occurred between 4 and 5 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 Prison (a few days after he 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, Dr. JULIUS LINKE disappeared under the following circumstances: the electricity, elevators, telephones, and flash lights of the guards would not function. TRANSLATED BY: VIRARY APOSTOL, bad bad March 12, 1953 wel 3-33-53 RECORDED - 26 162 - 83894-3291 12 MAR 261 1958

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MAR 16 10 54 AM °53 DROO SECI MR. JONES MAR 16 12 01 PM '53 RECEIVED FBI US DEPT OF JUSTICE

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According to the article, among other statements of the guards, was the fact that between midnight 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, "the motors of autos and trucks stopped unexpectedly," without any apparent explanation; after one hour they succeeded in starting them again. During this occasion it was commented that "something rare occurred in the atmosphere." 3° - About three months ago I read in a local newspper 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 "flying saucer." They followed it, but it, as in previous cases, whirled about and could not be reached. However, the flying saucer flew 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 lot from view, and the airplane motors began working. Any inference from the above statements - according to my way of thinking, -- that these facts may appear to be imaginary, is dispelled by the statements of various witnesses on each occasion, and therefore they are "scientific" 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 "the interference of one person," 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 "strange force," about which our ancestors have not spoken to us in history, we cannot deny. - 2 -

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I submit for your full consideration all I have said, my only motive being "human interest for human affairs" and my desire for the progress of humanity, for a good future full of dignity and cosmic evolution. Without further particulars, I remain Sincerely yours, S/ FRANCISCO TRONCOSO SILVA Casilla 1857. Valparaiso Chile, South America P. S. Please acknowledge receipt of this letter. - 3 -

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Valparais Marzo de 1953• Señor Director Federal Bureau of Investigation. Washington. Estados Unidos. Norte América. Referencia:- Persona con posible ingerencia en "Discos Voladores". Estimado señor:- Me permito dirigirme a Ud., que dirige una poderosa Oficina de In- vestigación de raigambre Internacional, para manifestar lo siguiente:- Tüve la oportunidad de leer en una revista policial "chilena", en una sección titulada "Fugas Perfoctas", la fuga del Dr. Linko ( de 42 edad, viudo, que a mediados de 1950 en Londres fué detenido en un Edificio de Departamentos, 8° piso. Motivo de detención, su posible participación con Vladimir Vlasay de "divulgar a gobiernos extrangeros secretos do aviación En el allanamiento para su detención que se efectuó entre 04 y 05 hrs. • de la madrugada, ocurrió un hecho extraño "cuando la policía cercaba el 89 piso, todo el edificio quedó a obscuras y los ascensores detenidos como tambión los telófonos y citáfonos silenciados. Los policías al lleger al 89 piso con sus linternas eléctricas, óstas se apagaron simultáneamente. (Sin embargo fué detenido a las 06 hrs., al alba). b) El Dr. Linko huyó del presidio de Kent (a pocos días de ser encerrado) y serún declaraciones del autor del artículo, que deben ser fidedignas: hizo en la siguiente circunstancia:- Entre las 12 de la noche (24 hrg.) y 02 hrs. de la mañana, en lluvioso día desapareció el Dr. Julius Linke, con las agravantes de - paralización del alumbrado, ascensores y teléfonos, no funcionamiento de linternas de bolsillo ( de vigilantes). Los vigilantes entre otras cosas declararon - según el artículo - que entre las 24 y 02 hrs., arreció en gran forma la lluvia y en ciertos momen- tos reinó completa"obscuridad", los focos se apagaron. Un vigilante trató de tocar el botón de alarma que hace sonar el silbato de peligro y no funcion gritó a otro vigilante y no obtuvo respuesta y su voz era "lojana"; para avi- sar personalmente a sus jefes no pudo correr ni apresurar la marcha (sino andar en forma lenta). 2º.- Poco antes de la caída de Berlín, "los motores de autos y camiones fueron inesperadamente detenidos", sin encontrarse aparente explicación; después de una hora se logró ponerlos en movimiento. So comentó en esa oportunidad "que algo rarc ocurría en la atmósfora.". 3°.- Harán cerca de tres meses que leí en un periódico local, acerca de los "Dis- cos Voladores" - haciendo la salvedad que tal vez se habrá especulado acerca de los platillos voladores, pero también es innegable que se han dicho verdades - doclarando, según un artículo de una agencia noticiosa que, un oficial y su acom- pañanto que piloteaban un avión, divisaron un "Disco Volador". Lo persiguieron, pero éste como en casos anteriores hizo bastantes piruetas y no se dejó alcanzar. Sin embargo el Disco Volador se elevó a gran altura, luego inició un acelerado des censo y se estacionó unos instantes por sobre el avión del Oficial, paralizándole los motores al avión (según declaraciones de los aviadores). Posteriormente el Disco se elevó perdiéndose de vista, funcionando nuevamente los motores del avión. Doducción de lo anteriormente manifestado - según mi modo de pensar, que - al acurrir hechos de esta índole que parecieran utópicos, se desmiente por lo manifestado por varios testigos en distintas circunstancias y por lo tanto son hechos "científicos". Si en dos ocasiones ocurrió la paralización de la fuerza eléctrica - y di- gámoslo fuerze vital (en caso de vigilantes) - se desprende en dichos casos la 'ingerencia de una porsona", el Dr. Linke. ¿Porqué no podría tener ingerencia el Dr. Linke, en los otros dos casos, incisos 2º y 3º ?

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- 2 - Puede que todo esto no tenga relación y que los Discos Voladores no sean más que lo que han explicado ciertos científicos, pero lo de la "fuerza extreña", que no nos hablan nuestros antepasados en su historia, no lo podemos negar. Dejo a su entera consideración todo lo dicho, no guiándome otro motivo que "interés humano por las cosas humanas" y aspirando por el amplio progreso de la Humanidad, por un futuro benigno de dignidad y evolución cósmica. Sin otro particular, saluda atentamente a Ud• Francisco Troncoso Silva. Casilla 1857• Valparaiso• Chile. Sud América. Nota:- Ruogo a Ud. contestarme de haber recibido la presente.

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March 23, 1953 KECORDED INDEXO 2-83894-329 M7• Francisco Troncoso Silva Casilla 1857 Valparaiso, Chile Dear Mr. Troncoso: I want to take this opportunity to thank you for your letter of March 4, 1953• The interest which prompted you to make your observations available to me is sincerely ap- preciated. Since your communication may be of in- terest to another governmental agency, I am taking the liberty of forwarding a copy of it to The Hon- orable, the secretary of the Air force, The Penta- gon, Washington 25, D. C. Sincerely yours, John Edgar Hoover Director cc-Foreign Liaison Desk, with copy of incoming. copy by form, secretary of the Air Force. ELT: blt tit 8 3 83лa034 Tolson Ladd Nichols Belmont CleBR Glavin- Harbo Rosen Tracy Gearty Mohr Winterrowd— Tele. Room - Holloman Si zoo Miss Gandy - 78 APR 7 H00% COMin - FBI MAR 2 4 1.63 MAILED 91 19.

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"STARDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT SUBJECT: DIRECTOR, FBI DATE: 4/28/53 SAC, SAN JUAN (65-330) UNIDEN I FIED FLYING OBJECT OBSERVED 11:30 AM, APRIL 8, 1953, FORT BUCHANAN, PUERT RICO: MISCELLANDO US FLYING SAUGEA On 4/27/53 a report was received from Major BRADFORD P. SHUMAN, Wing Intelligence Officer, Ramey Air Force Base, Puerto Rico. The substance of this report is as follows: Five persons observed an unidentified flying object at 11:30 AM on 4/8/53 at Fort Buchanen, Puerto Rico. 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. described the object as a bright star or a bright ball of fire at a great height, and it was moving rapidly at the time it was observed. 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 ob ject. 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. This matter is being reported to the Bureau for information purposes. CLOSED. FDO ' B: MD Sander no nd 62-83894 330 € APR 29 RECORDED-12 IDEXED-12 ĐX: 102 53 MAY 11 1953

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May 14, 1953 Mrs. Robert H. paulason 26 Olcott Street Watertown, Massachusetts Firing Sauce Dear Urs. Davisson: I have received your letter of lay 9, 1953, and I want to thank you for making the information contained in your letter available to me. Inasmuch as the information contained in your letter comes within the jurisdiction of the Department of the Air Torce, I have furnished a copy of your letter to that Department for appropriate attention. Sincerely yours, John Edgar Hoover Director RECEIVE Ay 14 08 PM cc - 1 - Boston RECORDED-141 (FOR INFORMATION) BHM :m jh MAY 131953 Tolson Ladd. Nichols Belmont CleRs. Glavin- Harbo Rosen Tracy Gearty lohr interrowd ele. Room olloman 200 Ss Gandy. NOTE: F/30 MAY 25 195 Bureau files are negative re Mrs. Robert H. Davisson. COMM - FBI WAY 1 5 1953 MAILED 28

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RECEIVED-LANTED Se FBI 11.91823 1a55 PM °530, REC'D BELMONT F. B. I. May 14 JUSTICE STOL SOWS ORECEIVE F BT - ДАМАнцим 1. 01 PM *53 MAY 14 PAS DEPT. OF JUSTIGE US DEPT OF JUSTICE 12 05 PM P Dance 2ame

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99 INDEXED - RECORDED - 99 1283894-332 Date: May 14, 1953 To: Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25, P. C. From: John Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Subject: FLYING SAUCERS There is attached for your information and assistance in this matter a copy of a self-explanatory letter dated May 9, 1953, received by this Bureau from Mrs. Robert H. Davisson, 26 Oleott Street, Watertown, Massachusetts. Mrs. Davisson's letter has been acknowledged by this Bureau and she has been informed that a copy of her letter has been referred to the Department of the Air Force for appropriate attention. Attachnent co - 1 - Boston (Under Separate Cover) RECEIVE (Attachment) (FOR INFO) NOTE: Bureau files are negative re Mrs. Robert H Davis son. aY 14 7 OR. PM °5 EHM: mjh migh Tolson Ladd. Nichols Belmont CleRR. Glavin- Harbo Rosen Tracy Gearty Mohr. Tele. Room Holloman Sizoo Miss Gandy - 4NDS APPROPRTANT A GENOTO IDED 05073 ADVISEE SiTE DATO 2040 1lb7 FRCETAE 12.9E9 MAILED 8 MAY 1 51953 COMM - FRI

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July 9, 1953 89 - 630038 6 2-93894-333 INDEXED V. S. Hoodftll President Grand Hotel Mackinae Island, Michigan Dear Mr. Hoodfill: Your letter of June 30, 1953, has been received in Mr. Hoover's absence from the city, and I am taking the liberty of acknowledging its receipt. Your communication will be brought to his attention promptly following his return to Washington. Sincerely yours, 0-1 ремами to Cincinnato 7-17-53 діл Tolson Ladd Nichols Belmont CleRs. Glavin- Harbo Rosen Tracy Gearty Mohr - Winterrowd- Tele. Room - Holloman - Sizoo. Miss Gandy - New Ca Helen V. Gandy Secretary cc-Detroit, with copiles lindening. co-Cincinnati, with coby of incoming. ATTENTION SAC: You are instructed to thoroughly check your files in an effort to determine whether or not the Mr. Stevenson referred to by correspondent as been interviewed by an Agent of your office should also furnish the Bureau any information Whicho might assist in clarifying the story set forth by! Woodfill. sulet results no later than July 10311953w under caption "Mr. W. S. Woodfill, President, hotel, Mackinac Island, Michigan, Research (Crime Records." F011 0W-up made for July Is, 1953. Pelle per binenne are being handled by the Air Force at this preset it is believed desirable to check the sourden of this rumor and following receipt of replycerous Cincinnati, refer correspondent's inquiry toythe "Air force. In 1939 and again in 1940 Woodfill invited the Director were declined. to attend the vich in toet reneed that rene rana. and-both invitations gambling on Mackinac Hotel. Leland "per reserved for HPL: blt JUL 1 0 1953 JU t MAILED 27 mel

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Mr. Tolson Mr. La Grand HoteL WORLD'S LARGEST SUMMER HOTEL W. S.WOODFILL President June 30, 1953 Tracy Mr. Gearty Mr. Mohr MACKINAC ISLAND - MICHIGAN Mr. Holloman Mr. Sizoo Miss Gandy Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington, D. C• Gentlemen: A relative of mine living in Circleville, Chio 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 field, - a flying saucer. In due time this came to have general knowledge in the community, and about one year ago the story appeared in the Circleville 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 farmer 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• I understand that the farmer is a Mr. Stevenson, that he is held in very high repute in thin community, prosperous, conservative and of presumed sound minde SING. raml g 10 IS VH .23 62-83894 333 T 2' DEb: 0: RECORDED 68 JUIL 13 1953 INDEXED 8 21953 53 ach INALICE N.H 22 7 AUG 5 ЧЕСЕЛЕВ ДІВЕСЛОВ

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RECEIVED - DIRECTOR F B I 10 13 AM '53 RECEIVED - DIRECTOR E 3 1 U. S. DEP: DF JUSTICE Jur. 10 9 36 AM °53 RECEIVED - DIRECTOR U.S. DEPT OF JUSTICE JuL 3 1 31 PM '53 REC'D. RECORDS SEC • RECEIVED - NICHOLS € . 8. U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE JUL 8 | 10 PM ?53 RECEIVED - NICHOLS B. I U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE JuL 6 9 33 AM '53 Orrector 7-3-53 Rebecca n: Holmes MR. JONES 6 12 23 PM 95: RECEIVED BI US DEPT AF FUSTICE

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No • 2 I can only believe that the account is a lot of nonsense, insofar as the F.B.I. telling the farmer that the goverment has captured several "flying 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 farmer, -- and moreover that it is too utterly fantastic to credit with recognition as true. The farmer no doubt saw a "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 like to set my relative there straight. And 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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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE COI NICATIONS SECTION JUL $ 1953 TELETYPE Ir. Barbo Mr. Roses Mr. Tracs Mr. Mr. Gearty Nohr Mr. Wintorrowd Tele. Room. Mr. Hollomen Sizoo. Gandy Вгат FBI ATLANTA 7-8-53 11-0-2 AM JB DIRECTOR, FBI URGE N T FLYING SAUCERS, MR. TOM MCRAE, - ATLANTA CONSTITUTION- REPORTER, COMPLAINANT. THREE FORTYFIVE AM THIS DATE MCRAE TELEPHONICALLY FURNISHED FOLLOWING -FANTASTIC TALE - ASSURING THAT NEITHER HE NOR ANY MEMBER OF -CONSTITUTION- STAFF HAD BEEN DRINKING BUT HAD WITNESSED THIS STORY. MCRAE STATED EDWARD E. WATERS, ONE EIGHT FIVE FIVE PEACHTREE RD, 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 STARTING MAKING THEIR WAY BACK TO WHAT HE BELIEVED A FLYING SAUCER, THAT TWO • OF THE ANIMALS ESCAPED IN SAUCER BUT THIRD WAS KILLED WHEN HIT BY THEIR AUTOMOBILE. WATERS DISPLAYED OBJECT OR ANIMAL TO MCRAE AT NEWSPAPER OFFICE. MCRAE STATED ANIMAL DID NOT RESEMBLE ANYTHING HE HAD EVER SEEN BEFORE BUT LOOKED AS IF 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 SCRAZ UNABLE 1O LOCATE SCIENTIST TO EXAMIN CORDED-107 (02 - 3 3874 ANIMAL BUT DID HAVE ONE OF LEADING VETERINARIANS THIS CITY EXAMINE IT. EX-103 JUL • 1955 12 15 files it

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RECEIVED NICHOLS: U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE JUL 8 5 52 PM '53 E5. NaIs 9 8 Img IIOWT38 0I33 RECEIVED-LAD FBI DEPT. OF JUST: JuL 8 4 46 PM '53 36 AN °53 Jur 8 12 43 PM 53 REC'D ESPIONAGE S JUSTICE JUSTICE JuL 8 3 26 PM *53 RECES NEP PIRECTOR

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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 NOR HAD EVER NOTED A DEAD ANIMAL THAT DID NOT TURN PALE AT DEATH. VETERINARIAN STATED ANIMAL HAD HAD A TAIL BUT SAME WAS MISSING AND WHEN QUESTIONING WATERS ABOUT SAME WATERS SEEMED SOMEWHAT SURPRISED BUT STATE IT WAS POSSIBLY CUT OFF IN ACCIDENT. MCRAE ADVISED WHERE WAS BLOOD AROUND MOUTH OF ANIMAL CAUSED BY ACCIDENT WHICH RESEMBLED HUMAN BLOOD MCRAE FIRST THOUVHT WATERS POSSIBLY TRYING TO PULL PUBLICITY GAG DUE TO RECENT NEWSPAPER STORIES BUT BELIEVED HAD THIS BEEN HIS MOTIVE WATER WOULD HAVE TIMED HIS VISIT BETTER AS THEY WERE ABLE TO PRINT ANYTHING AFTER MIDNIGHT. MCRAE STATED NEWSPAPER WOULD POSSIBLY RUN STORY ON ABOVE FACTS TODAY. ATLANTA INDICES NEGATIVE ON WATERS. ABOVE FURNISHED IN VIEW OF POSSIBLE PUBLICITY THIS DATE. NO INVESTIGATION BEING CONDUCTED THIS OFFICE UCAB. 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 SHUD IT BE THEY WERE UNABLE YES OK TU 12-11 PM OK FBI WA RD V CC: MT. BELMONT AND SUPINVISOR DOM, INTEL, DIVISION

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details 7/9/53 FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIOS U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE COMMUL ICATIONS SECTION JUL 8/ 1953 TELETYPE ture JB Mr. colon Ladd Nichols Belmon Clerg - Gistin Mr. Harbo Mr. Rosen Mr. Tracy Mr. Gearty Mr. Monr Mr. Winterrowd Tele. Room Mr. Holloman Mr. 00 FBI ATLANTA 7-8-53 11-0-2 AM PIRECTOR, FBI URGENT FLYING SAUCERS, MR. TOM MCRAE, - ATLANTA CONSTITUTION- REPORTER, COMPLAINANT. THREE FORTYFIVE AM THIS DATE MCRAE TELEPHONICALLY FURNISHE FOLLOWING -FANTASTIC TALE - ASSURING THAT NEITHER HE NOR ANY MEMBER OF -CONSTITUTION- STAFF HAD BEEN DRINKING BUT HAD WITNESSED THIS STORY. MCRAE STATED EDWARD E. WATERS, ONE EIGHT FIVE FIVE PEACHTREE RD, 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 STARTING MAKING THEIR WAY BACK TO WHAT HE BELIEVED A FLYING SAUCER, THAT TWO OF THE ANIMALS ESCAPED IN SAUCER BUT THIRD WAS KILLED WHEN HIT BY THEIR AUTOMOBILE. WATERS DISPLAYED OBJECT OR ANIMAL TO MCRAE AT NEWSPAPER OFFICE, MCRAE STATED ANIMAL DID NOT RESEMBLE ANYTHING HE HAD EVER SEEN BEFORE BUT LOOKED AS IF 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 MCRAE UNABLE TO LOCATE SCIENTIST TO EXAMINE ANIMAL BUT DID HAVE ONE OF LEADING VETERINARIANS THIS CITY EXAMINE IT. 05/

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MCRÃE STATES VETERINARIAN WOULD NOT COMMIT HIMSELF BUT VET POINTED OUT HAD NEVER SEEN ANIMAL IN MONKEY FAMILY WITHOUT HAIR AS THIS ONE NOR HAD EVER NOTED A DEAD ANIMAL THAT DID NOT TURN PALE AT DEATH. VETERINARIAN STATED ANIMAL HAD HAD A TAIL BUT SAME WAS MISSING AND WHEN QUESTIONING WATERS ABOUT SAME WATERS SEEMED SOMEWHAT SURPRISED BUT STATE IT WAS POSSIBLY CUT OFF IN ACCIDENT. MCRAE ADVISED PHERE WAS BLOOD AROUND MOUTH OF ANIMAL CAUSED BY ACCIDENT WHICH RESEMBLED HUMAN BLOOD MCRAE FIRST THOUVHT WATERS POSSIBLY TRYING TO PULL PUBLICITY GAG DUE TO RECENT NEWSPAPER STORIES BUT BELIEVED HAD THIS BEEN HIS MOTIVE WATER WOULD HAVE TIMED HIS VISIT BETTER AS THEY WERE ABLE TO PRINT ANYTHING AFTER MIDNIGHT. MCRAE STATED NEWSPAPER WOULD POSSIBLY RUN STORY ON ABOVE FACTS TODAY, ATLANTA INDICES NEGATIVE ON WATERS. ABOVE FURNISHED IN VIEW OF POSSIBLE PUBLICITY THIS DATE. NO INVESTIGATION BEING CONDUCTED THIS OFFICE UCAB. 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 SHUD IT BE THEY WERE UNABLE YES OK TU 12-11 PM OK FBI WA RD ORIGINAL- DIRECTOR

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The Little Man Who Wasn't Edward Watters and two friends said they saw a flying saucer on U. S. High- way 78 near Atlanta, Gal, and several small creatures running toward it. They ran over one but the others entered the sau- cer and flew off in a blaze of light. Mr. Wat- ters exhibits the "man from Mars" but an anatomy pro- fessor called it a skinned monkey. Bo c 62-83894-334 Washington Daily News 7/9/53

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( SAUCER ) ATLANTA--TWO BARBERS AND A BUTCHER PRODUCED A 21-INCH LONG "CREATURE" TODAY TO BACK UP THEIR TALE THAT THEY HAD SEEN A FLYING SAUCER AND THRES ELUSIVE LITTLE MEN AFTER CONSUMING ONE BEER APTECE. AN ANATOMY PROFESSOR SAID SUSPECTEOTOMY PROM SUPER SPACE APPEARED TO BE A MONKEY. THE MEN WERE CONVINCED IT WAS FROM OUT OF THIS WORLD THEY RAN INTO IT WITH THEIR AUTOMOBILE WHILE DRIVING ON A HIGHWAY NEAR HERE LAST THERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HIGHWAY, WAS ARTER THING LOOKED *RIGHT THERE RED ALL OVER " SAID EDWARD WATTERS. 28-YEAR-OLD BARBER. LIKE A FLYING SAUCER PICTURE HE HAD SEEN IN A SCIENCE MAGAZINZ ATHEY HE SAID. "THREE LITTLE MEN WERE RUNNING FOR IT'THE OTHER ONE." WATTERS CONTINUED. TUO OF THEM MADE IT. I HIT ALL ATTERS SAID THE MACHINE SOON ROSE INTO THE AIR AND ZOOMED AWAY. HE SAID IT WAS NOT MORE THAN WAIST HIGH AND ABOUT HALF AS WIDE AS THE ROAD. WATTERS: COMPANIONS. ARNOLD PAYNE A BUTCHER SABOT CHER ENCYBETH OCCURRES ABOUT ALTHOUCH IT MAD NO HAIR. "IF IT'S A CREATURE FROM OUTER SPACE, THEY HAVEN'T INVENTED ANYTHING SATTERS DECIDED TO FREEZE THE THING WITH DRY ICE AND PUT ITO CH ON DISPLAY 1/8--N 633P file 55tt ENCLOSURE 62-83894-334

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RECORDED 124 - 3814-334 INDEXED-124 DATE: EX-103 TO: ENCL. Tolson Ladd Nichols Belmont ClegR Glavin- Harbo Rosen Tracy Gearty Mohr Winterrowd Tele. Room - Holloman Sizoo - Miss Gandy - July 10, 1953 Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon rashington 25, D. C. FROM: John Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation SUBJECT: TLYING SAICERS The following information was furnished to the Atlanta Tield Office of this Bureau at 3:45 4.l.. on July 8, 1953, by Mr. TomatioRae, "Atlanta Constitution" reporter• IT. WoRde stated ar. aware. to latera, Peach Tree Road, Northeast, Atlanta, Georgia, telephone number Elgin 9562, contacted him at the office of the "Atlanta Constitution" and advised as follows: According to waters, he and two other companions, while travelling in on automobile on Bankhead Highway un the vicinity of Mobleton, Georgia, encountered three small animals which they believed had landed from a flying saucer. Taters advised as he and his companion approached, the three animals started moking their way back to what was believed to be a flying saucer. According to Voters, two of the animals escaped in the flying sancer but the third was killed when hit by the automobile in which waters and his companions were riding. According to loRe, taters displayed the animal which had been killed to him at the "Atlanta Constitution" newspaper office. MeRge stated the animal did not resemble anything he nod ever seen before put maoked as though it belonged to the monkey family. According to lcRae, the animal was approzimately 21 inches long natated because of pointed nead, large ears and pinkish shine hence the early morning hour he was unable to locate a scientist to ezamine the cnimal, but he didchave onedy the leading veterinarians of Atlanta, Georgia, examine it. COMM — FBI EHM:djb JUL 1 0 1953 MAILED 27

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MeRoe advised the veterinarian would not comnit himself but the veterinarion pointed out he had never seen an animal in the, monkey fomily without hair nor had he ever seen a dead animal, that did not turn pale at death. According to leRae, the veterinarian stated the animal's toil was missing and that when he had questioned laters about the missing toil waters had seemed somewhat surprised and indicated it had possibly been cut off in the accident. MeRce stated there was blood around the mouth of the animal, which resembled human blood. At the time MoRe furnished the above informa- tion to the Atlanta Office of this Burecu, he stated neither he nor any menber of the "Atlanta Constitation" newspaper staff had been drinking but had witnessed the MeRoe stated he first thought Waters, had tried to pill a publietty gag in this matter; however, it was MeRce 'a opinion if this had been Waters' motive, Waters would have timed his visit to the newspaper office better as the newspaper was unable to print anything on the story after midnight. MeRGe informed the Atlanta Office of this Bureau the "Atlanta Constitution" newspaper would probably run a story concerning the information set forth above. It is noted your office was telephonically con- tooted on the morning of July 9, 1953, by a Liaison rep- resentative of this Bureau concerning the above matter. The above is furnished for your information and no investi- gation is being conducted in this matter by this Burecu.

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July 24, 1953 sit MAILED 11 JUL 2 8 1953 COMM-FBI Mr. W. S. Woodfill President Grand Hotel Mackinac Island, Michigan Dear Mr. Woodsill: 62-83894-335 RECORDED Your letter of June 30, 1953, was brought to my attention upon my return to the city, and I want to thank you for making this information available to me. I wish to advise that the situation which you discuss in your letter does not pertain to any matter within the investigative jurisdiction of the FBI. Obuiously, therefore, no representative of this Bureau conducted the interview with Mr. Stevenson which you describe relative to "flying saucers." Sincerely yours, JUL 27 J. Edgar Hoover John Edgar Hoover Director 12 PM LECEIVED - DIRECTO 4. S. DEP 8. U3 JUSTICE Tolson Lada! Nichols Belmont CleRR Glavin- Harbo Rosen Tracy Gearty Mohr. Winterrowd Tele. Room _ Holloman - Sizoo. Miss Gandy - cc - Cincinnati Reurlet July 15, 1953. NOTE: Mr. Woodfill's letter of June 30, 1953, stated that a farmer named stevenson of Circleville, Ohio, had reportedly seen a flying saucer and had been subsequently interviewed on the matter by representative of the FBi, s ВИг. - Woodfill desired to know if this were true. Bulet of July 9, 1953, to him was an ""in-gpsence" reply, containing, a note for sao, Cincinnati to deterRine the basis of the rumor?5 Cincinnati letter of July 15, 253, indicates that Stevenson was interviewed on July 14, 7953; at that time Stevenson indicated that he hud been interFiewed on the subject by one Jack w. Ohio, who made the statement that he (Grant) had once been Grant of Columbus, "checked" by the FBI. Cincinnati files reflect no prior interview with the farmer, who is Bruce stopenson, tural Route 2, ciroleville, onto. LL:dep du 36 A004.N55

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CORWOEST 10F 5 8 1823 WIRED. 11- RECEIVE MATI: ROOM FBI U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE JuL 28 5 51 PM 35. 20E90

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*STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Menorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : DIRECTOR, FBI DATE: July 15, 1953 FROM : SAC, CINCINNATI (105-0) SUBJECT: Br MR. W. S, WOODFILL, President Grand Hotel Mackinac Island, Michigan RESEARCH - CRIME RECORDS ReBulet dated 7-9-53• Sheriff CHARLES RADCLIFF, Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio, advised he is cognizant of "flying saucer" report made by Mr. BRUCE STEVENSON, Pural Route 2, Circleville, Ohio. According to Sheriff RADCLIFF, Mr. STEVENSON reported that a saucer-shaped object had landed on his farm some time ago, and this report eventually reached local newspapers. In June, 1953, an individual discussed the matter with Mr. STEVENSON. Sheriff RADCLIFF advised that this person did not, to his knowledge, represent 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 local farmer, who is considered trustworthy• OHIO & STEVENSON, Rural Route 2, was interviewed 7-14-53 at which time he stated that shortly after he received some publicity regard- ing his report of sighting a saucer-shaped object, he was visited by one JACK I GRANT, who gave his address as Post Office Box 5112, Tri-Village Station, Columbus, Ohio. According to Nr. STEVENSON, GRANT told him he was a salesman of television antennas, and that for over six years he had been pursuing the hobby of investigating "flying saucer" reports. He emphasized that he had no official connection with any part of the Govern- ment, but stated that he had once been "checked" 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 the Cincinnati indices revealed no information identifiable with either BRUCE STEVENSON or JACK W. GRANT. DOE :VD AMS D Let to Waadhell hunt 1 24 530 MLL RECORDED - 43 INDEXED-43 162-83294-335 31 JUL 17. 1959

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BLEIVED - DIRECTOR Д : S. DEP: DE JUSTICE JUL 27 12 12 PH 353 MR. JONES fuL 23 lI 51 4M 95€ AFCEIVED F B US DEP: JF USTICE DU 31J0T

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4-528 62-83894 - 336,337 CHANGED TO 62-101030-43 MAY 5 1954

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STANDARD FORM NQ. 64 Office Menur andum • UNITED StATES GOVERNMENT* TO Director, FBI DATE: 4/12/54 FROM : SAC, Newark (62-0) SUBJECT: INFORMATION REGARDING NEW PRINCIPLES OF AERO-DYNAMICS ALOIS PIVEC - INFORMANT FL YING S Enclosed herewith are photostats of parts of two letters furnished by ALOIS PIVEC and his wife, OLGA PIVEC, both of 164 Hallstead Street, East Orange, NJ.. Both photostats are in German 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 information is being furnished to the Bureau for whatever action is deemed appropriate. The indices of the Newark Office are negative regarding ALOIS PIVEC, OLGA PIVEC and ADOLPH DORNIG. Encls. (7) cc NK 100-17007 REGISTERED MAIL ENCLOSURE ATTACHED TENGI P RTH: gms 1,13" P CHIM RECORDEN. 17 62-83894-338 APR 20.195L INDEXED : 47

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TRANSLATION FROM GERMAN Item 12-21-53 Mr. ALOIS PIWETZ 164 Halsted Str. New Jersey, U. S. A. Dear Mr. PIWETZ, 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. 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 net 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 taking the liberty of telling you something about an invention which the entire world wants to have. (I am only writing the most important facts.) Before the war I intended to make a toy, something which flies, and purely accidentally I discovered 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 failed to perfect the incomplete invention. They approached me again. 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). @TRANSLATED BY: FRIEDRICH G. NEUHAUSER: Jen MAY G, 1954> COPIES DESTROYED 270 NOV 19 1964

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After the war they came to me again and told me about their misfortune, that about 60% of all flights had been fatal. To make it very clear, they wanted to find out how I construct my flying 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 secret. In America, this flying machine is called "flying saucer," and since among my former comrades a quarrel broke out and they distrust each other and none of them 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. This machine is so very simple in its construction that, if one gives me an engineer and experts, 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 machine, 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 difficulty (everything without propellers) to reach such speeds. Now the idea has come to me to build some kind of popular flying machine which is cheaper than an automobile. One does not need any starting or landing strip and one would have a travelling speed of about 500 to 700 km. per hour. I believe that America would be the most favorable place in the world for it. You will now understand that I am very anxious to establish contact with a firm which is greatly interested 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. PINETZ, can start 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 realize 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 interested in it. - 2 -

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But I shall announce the names of my comrades only after 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 sone firm accepts me for the construction of the flying machines. But in addition to all that I need someone no lives over there and who knows the English language, and now I am asking you, my dear Mr. PIWETZ, whether you c an 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 "Do" - 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 the invention, known by the name of "flying saucer," is my own, that I know the men who are building these machines in South merica, 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. I am awaiting your communication very hopefully. With friendly greetings, Respectfully, /s/ ADOLF DORNIG - 3 -

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Item #2 1-21-54 ADOLE DORNIG Waidmannsdorferstr. 80 Klagenfurt - West Dear Mr. 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 response 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 awoke, 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: "You!" 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's office about my invention (just like to you) but no reply came. When at one time I accidentally listened to "Radio Canada," 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 offer my invention for sale, and those people make such a noise about it! 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, because of our eagle, also called misfortune. Our coat of arms, the bird - 4 -

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of Austria, has in its claws hammer and sickle, and when I announced in 193(3)7 in public that the communist symbols also appear on our money, the gendarmery arrested me and told me that I was crazy. Since I repeatedly declared that a "red dog" 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, every brin bas 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 country. Since I (relatives) also exactly know the most secret Russian comnunications 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 airplane again! The Americans do not know how many Russian agents 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 loce} FSS that I can construct the Russian apparatuses, I received... *)Examiner's comment: This communication is incomplete. - 5 -

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ADOLPH DORNIG On Jamary 12, 1954, ALOIS PIVEC, 164 Hallstead Street, East Orange, NJ, appeared at the Newark Office and advised that he had received a letter from one ADOLPH DORNIG, 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 and attempt to interest them in these devices. According to PIVEC, DORNIG requested that no governmental agencies be contacted. PIVEC stated that the inventions, which DORNIG had developed were new type of sewing machine and a flying saucer • PIVEC stated that he came to this office because he felt that the flying saucer was of some importance in the national defense of this country• PIVEC stated that he has never met DORNIG but that DORNIG was given his name by PIVEC'S brother, FRITZ, who resides in Graz, Austria, and wno is employed at Siemens-Halske Belggier Gasse 11, Graz, Austria. PIVEC stated that his brother workedwith DORNIG, at one time, and he believes that DORNIG is a chemist or some type of engineer. PIVSC 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'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 without 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 saucer and that he has been the first to win real success. ALOIS IN FORMAN By way of background, PIVEC stated that he was born in the vicinity of Leoben, Austria in 1925 and arrived in New York City on March 29, 1952 from Bremerhaven, Germany• He is employed at the Public Service Laboratory in Maplewood, NJ. on January 30, 1954, OLGA PIVEC, 164 Hallstead Street, East Orange, 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 PIVEC. She stated that her husband 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. COPIES DESTROYED 270 NOV 19 1964

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Mrs. PIVEC stated that the letter received recently by her husband, from DORNIG, contained information that DORNIG had been contacted by Communists in Austria, who wished to take him to Switzerland 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 PIVEC to increase his efforts to sell DORNIG'S new invention in the United States. By way of background, OLGA PIVEC advised that she was born of German parents in South Russia and at the time of the German invasion of Russia, during World War II, she and her family were resettled in Germany. After the war, she married ALOIS PIVIC and came to the United States with

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Date: May 13, 1954 Chit To: Director of Spectal Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Atr Force The Pentagon Washington 25, D. C. From: John Edgar Hoover, Director Tederal Bureau of Investigation Subject: FLYING SAUCERS MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING RECORDED-20 62-83894 338 EX. - 107 There is attached a copy of a memorandun dated April 12, 1954, captioned "Adolph Dornig" which contains information furnished to the Newark office of this Bureau by Alois pivec and his wife, Olga pivec, both of 143 Hallstead Street, East Orange, New Jersey. There is also attached a translation from the German language of the parts of the two letters furnished by. Pivec and his wife to the Newark office. The files of this Bureau Jail to reflect that any investigation has been conducted by this Bureau of Adolph Dornig, Alois Pivec, or Olga Pivec. In view oj information set forth in the attached memorandum dated April 12, 1954, and the translation of the parts of the letters referred to herein, no investigation is contemplated by this Bureau in this matter. Attaotment cc - 1 - Necoras Administration Branch Attention: Criminal Division ne (by 0- 6afgrm on same date) 0%6 (Attachment) Tolson Ladd Nichols Belmont Clegg Glavin- Harbo Rosen Tracy Mohr Trotter. Winterrowd - Tele. Room - Holloman Ming Copy MAY 1 7 1954 Hon MAY 1 3 1954 MAILED 27

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4-22 FEDERAL BUREAU OF NVESTIGATION RECORDS SECTION t/23, 1954 | Name Check Unit-Room 6523 Attention Service Unit-Room 6524 Forward to File Review Return to Supervisor burExt. 2104 Room _ 130 All References Subversive References, Nose Main References Only Main References Only Restrict to Locality of Breakdown Buildup _Variations Exact Name Only Exact Spelling Check for Alphabetical Loyalty Form SUBJECT Address Localities Birthdate & Place adapt Darning R# Searcher _Date 4/23 _ Initial FILE NUMBER SERIAL Amen nR

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4-22 FEDERAL BUREAU OF NVESTIGATION RECORDS SECTION 4/23 -, 1954 Name Check Unit-Room 6523 Attention Service Unit-Room 6524 Forward to File Review Return to alExt. 2104 Supervisor Room - 1130 All References Subversive References, Nose Main References Only | Main - References Only Restrict to Locality of • Breakdown _Buildup Variations • Exact Name Only - Exact Spelling •Check for Alphabetical Loyalty Form SUBJECT_ Address Localities Birthdate & Place R#. Searcher Date 4/ 23Initial FILE NUMBER SERIAL n a. 25- 274402-1

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4-22 - FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION RECORDS SECTION 4/23, 1954 | Name Check Unit-Room 6523 Attention Service Unit-Room 6524 Forward to File Review Return to. Supervisor Room - 730 Ext. 2/01 All References Subversive References, Nose Main References Only Main. References Only Restrict to Locality of Breakdown Buildup Variations Exact Name Only Exact Spelling Check for Alphabetical Loyalty Form SUBJECT_ Address Localities Birthdate & Place Olga Piro R# Searcher Date 1/23 Initial FILE NUMBER SERIAL

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4 April 27, 1954 2:123 RECORDED - 79 INDEXED - 79 Miss Linda Butler Box 63 Milton, Kentucky Dear Linda: 62- 83894-341 Thank you very much for your letter of April 21, 1954. Although I would ltie to be of assistance, it is not possible for me to epress an opinion regarding the subject you mentioned since it does • not relate to a matter within the jurisdiction of the You may desire, however, to communicate to ration a annie or baro. on hate or The Secretary of the Air Force, Sincerely yours, J. Edgar Hoover John Edgar Hoover Director NOTE: First name salutation is being used since the correspondent indicates she is a seventh grade student. She requested the Director's opinion regarding Flying Saucers. hC Wid Th. g GEM : ew 113r Tolson Ladd Nichols Belmont CleRR Glavin. Harbo Rosen Tracy Gearty Mohr Winterrowd Tele. Room Holloman Miss Gandy 2r 40139316 GECF RECEIVED READING ROOM B I U.S. REDIT G SUCTICE APR 27 3 45 PM '54 MAY 54954 COMM - FBI APR 2 8 1954 MAILED 31

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Сергі - 21-195 у motor, Ку. ° FLying JAuCERS . Federal Bureau of Investegation Washington Dear Sir, He seventh grade of milton Are studying about seying saucers. and I would like to have your apiscion on them . Sincerily yours. finda Butler milon, Ky. t 12-8 3544-341 10 APR 29 1954 N. 21-27-54 ach GEM RECORDED - 79 x-123

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APR 23 9 21 AM 254- REC'D, RECORDS SEC 37153 SECEIVED - DIRECTOR P BI U S DEPT OF JUSTIR JONES APR 27 8 41 3, 10 02 AM 95, CEIVED B I US DEPT DE HUSTICE

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TRUE COPY - April-21-1954 Milton, Ky. Federal Bureau of Investegation Washington D. C. Dear Sir, The seventh grade of Milton Are studying about Flying Saucers. and I would like to have your opinion on them. /s/ Sincerely Yours, Linda Butler Milton, Ky. Address on envelope Box 63 Milton, Ky.

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : Director, FBI DATE: 6-8-54 FROM HIS SAC, Cincinnati (100-0) SUBJECT: TRUMAN BETHURUM; FLYING DISCS INFORMATION CONCERNING On 6-7-54, Mr. THOMAS BICKHOFF, 3721 Tappan Avenue, Cincinnati 23, Ohio, and Mr. RALPH ZIMMERMANN, 2768 Highland Avenue, Cincinnati 12, Ohio, called at this office. Mr. EICKHOFF advised he is the operator of a beauty salon in the Neave Building, Cincinnati, and Mr. ZIMMERMANN advised he is President of the Zimmermann Packing Company in Cincinnati. Mr. EICKHOFF did all the talking for the two men and he furnished the following 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 6-11-54 a program would be presented at Taft Auditorium, Cincinnati, Ohio, on "The Real Flying Saucer Story." The advertisement which Mr. EICKHOFF exhibited disclosed no sponsor for this program and it was only noted on the ad that tickets for 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 from the Central Ticket Office that the ad had been placed by HENRY MADAY, 364 West Lewiston Avenue, Ferndale 20, Michigan. He advised that he telephonically contacted MADAY on 6-3-54 and MADAY stated that he was only the agent for renting the hall and that he was acting on behalf of TRUMAN BETHURUM and GEORGE HUNT WILLIAMSON. He stated that on 6-4-54 MADAY called him back and told him that there had been a disagreement between MADAY, BETHURUM and WILLIAMSON 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 or WILIIAMSON 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. to Cinemati RCD :CVM 4|22154 EHM CC: Los Angeles (RM) Indianapolis (RM) REGISTERED MAIL AIR MAIL SPECIAL DELIVERY RECORDED - 86 INDEXED - 86 1222814342 20 JUN 11 1954 Ck325 COPIES DESTROYED 270 NOV 19 1964

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Letter to Director June 8, 1954 Mr. EICKHOFF continued that ten minutes after he had talked to MADAY on Friday, 6-4-54, he received a call from GEORGE HUNT TTLLTAMSON and a Mc. MANSPEAKER, who confirmed to him that MADAY was no longer associated with them, and who asked that EICKHOFF meet with them at a /luncheon at the Terrace Plaza Hotel on 6-7-54• Mr. EICKHOFF, in explanation of his interest in this matter, ad- vised that he had read such books as "Flying Saucers From Outer Space," written by DONAID 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, FULTON LEWIS, JR., and FRANK EDWARDS, to the effect that reliable persons have reported observing flying dises 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 BETHUR UM and GEORGE HUNT WILLIAMSON, 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 people might learn the true facts regarding flying discs. that it should be the re lee a debution as potato that the 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 he stated he got from BETHURUM, this magazine being self-identified as the "Golden Times Weekly," published by Soul Craft Chapels, Post Office Box 192, Noblesville, Indiana. 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 - 2 -

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Letter to Director June 8, 1954 which TRUMAN BETHURUM had with a crew of assumed space explorers under the supervision of a ravishing woman commandant 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 Mr. 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 residence address is 519 North Gertruda Avenue, Redondo Beach, California. Mr. EICKHOFF also had with him a letter addressed to TRUMAN BETHURUM from WILLIAM GILROY of the Saucers Research Foundation, which letter re- flected that that organization was holding a three-day convention June 4, 5 and 6, 1954 at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles, California, and that it had invited TRUMAN BETHURUM to this convention to 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 BETHURUM's story, if true, should be given wide publicity, but that if the story was false, then should be prosecuted for fraud. He stated that he first took his in- formation to the Air Force in the person of lieutenant Colonel JOHN O'MARA of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, whom BICKHOFF visited personally at O MARA's home in Fairborn, Ohio, on Sunday, 6-6-54. EICKHOFF indicated that he asked Colonel O'MARA if there were such things as flying saucers and if BETHURUM'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 D'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 BETHURUM in Cincinnati. He advised that the original meeting scheduled for June ll had been cancelled, and that he felt this meeting had such important information for the people as a whole that he was going to make every effort to make the meeting one of national - 3 -

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Letter to Director; June 8, 1954 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 the 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 informed BETHURUM, WIILIAMSON and Mr. MANSPEAKER at the luncheon meeting which was held at the Terrace Plaza Hotel on 6-7-5L. They informed him that they were not afraid of an investigation; that BETHURUM's story was factual, and that they had no objection to EICKHOFF's advising Government authorities regarding it. Mr. EICKHOFF stated that his report to this office was part of his plan to inform all the Federal agencies he thought should know about the activities of BETHURUM. He advised that in line with his contemplated plans that on the evening of 6-7-54 there was to be another meeting at the home of L. H. /STRINGFIELD, 7017 Britton 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 plan 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 known and had not met either BETHURUM, WILLIANSON or MANSPEAKER prior to the events described above. He said that GEORGE HUNT WILLIAMSON 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 BETHURUM, 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 what disposition would be made of the money. He said he understood that - 4 -

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Letter to Director; June 8, 1954 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, TRUMAN BETHURUM, GEORGE HUNT WILITAMSON, J. H. STRINGFIELD, and It. Col. JOHN O'MARA. The indices reflect that by letter dated 2-7-52, Indianapolis file 61-5, the Indianapolis Office 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, with headquarters and printing facilities in Noblesville, Indiana. With regard to RALPH ZIMMERMANN, the indices of this office reflect that as of July, 1942, he was general manager of the Zimmermann Packing Company, a mechanical packing firm at 139-1/1 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. - 5 -

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SAC, Cincinnati June 22, 1954 RECORDED. 3 Director, 181 62-8384) 34 9 34 9 TRUMAN BETHURUM; FLYING DISCS EX-122 MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING (ESPIONAGE) Reurlet 6/8/54. You are instructed to recontact Thomas Bickhoff, referred te in your referenced letter and advise him this Bureau has n jurisdiction concerning the investigation of matters relating to flying discs and that the United States Air Force has such jurisdiction. You are instructed to advise him this Bureau cannot approve or disapprove of his activities in connection with this matter and that the placing of this Bureau on notice as to his activities will not exonerate 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 flying discs and has recently met several persons who claimed to have had experiences with flying discs. He stated he intended to assist such persons in arranging for public meeting in Cincinnati, at which matters relating to flying discs will be discussed and that he expects the meeting will result in a "four thousand dollar take." 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 concerning flying dises and their experiences with same were fraudulent. He stated he wanted to put all federal agencies on notice in order that they could act to prevent the planned meeting re flying discs if it was deemed necessary by the Government. Tolson Boardman. Nichols. Belmont Glavin Harbo Rosen. Tamm Tracy EHM: egp e9P COMM — FBI JUN 2 2 1954 MAILED 27 Mohr Winterrowd_ Tele. Room_ Holloman Na candy 5 5 JUN 25 1954 П'2 0561. 0Е 1020CF Mant MERCIN war

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DIRECTOR, FBI 6/8/54 SAC, SEATTIS REPORTS ON ALLEGED SIGHTING OF SUBMARINES, PARACHUTE LANDINGS, FLASHING LIGHTS, ETC. Flping ESPIONAGE Queers It has been the experience of this office that during this season, from now until winter, there is received a considerable number of alleged reports on sighting of submarines, flashing lights, parachute landings, flying saucers, etc. In every instance when such reports are received, the information is immediately disseminated to DIO, 13 ND, U. S• NaVys OSI, USAF; and R-3, U. S. Army• Inasmuch as Seattle is the District Headquarters for the Intelligence Agencies in the Pacific Northwest, reports received, usually from the USCG, concerning incidents in the state of Oregon are immediately reported to that office as well as the Intelligence Agencies. Many of the reports are of a nebulous type, impossible of corroborating, 5=395-37-51-137 and of doubtful authenticity. Some, by preliminary inquiry and evaluation, prove to be without foundation. However, as stated above, reports of this type are immediately disseminated to the Intelligence Agencies without evaluation, followed by additional infornation as obtained. This office has no control of the dissemination of these reports on a "spot" basis by the local intelligence offices to their Headquarters in Washington, D. C. The Bureau will recall the widespread dissemination given by the military agencies of "Radio Message March 13, 1953, Interpreted as Calling for Mobilization of Communist Party" (SAC Letter #23, dated ORIGINAL FILED IN 3/31/53). The purpose of this letter is to advise the Bureau that in all instances immediate dissemination is made of all unusual incidents that appear to have any military significance. This office also acts as a co- ordinator on all reports to be certain that all interested agencies are cognizant. The Bureau may be assured that it will be kept advised of all significant incidents as they arise but will not be bothered with every trivial incident that oceurs unless instructed. SONOR. LAD: hz cc: Portland Encls. 142. 8:894 - NOT RHOOT 87 JUL 9 1954 58 JUL 19 1954115 / INITIALS ON ORIGINAS

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DIRECTOR, FBI SAC 2 SEATTLE RE: REPORTS ON ALLEGED SIGHTING OF SUBMARINES, 6-18-54 PARACHUTE LANDINGS, FLASHING LIGHTS, ETC. ESPIONAGE OSI advises us that they have no interest whatsoever themselves in connection with these matters and that Operations of the Air Force doesn't even advise them. Colonel S. W. RAYNOR, District Commander, OSI, states that there is an evaluation at Wright-Patterson Field where the data is correlated, that the reports are handled from the Air Force 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. -2-

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22519 June 25, 1954 RECORDED-88 EX-112 62-83894 343 4T, Joseph Gunderson 5677 North Las Casas Avenue Chicago 30, Illtnots Dear Mr. Gunderson: I sincerely appreciate the interest which prompted your letter of June 21, 1954; however, I am not in a position, as a matter of policu, to comment regarding the book you mentioned since it does not deal with a matter within the jurisdiction of the FBI. It is suggested that you consider the advisabtlity of communtoating with The Honorable, The Secretary of the Air Force, The Pentagon, Washington 35, D. C., for whatever information he can give you along the lines of your inquiries. Sincerely yours, John Edgar Hoover Director NOTE : Correspondent desired informatidn concerning book the "Flying Saucers Have Landed" by Desmond Leslie and George Adamski. E BI Tolson. Boardman. Nichols Belmont Glavin Harbo_ Rosen Tamm Tracy Mohr Winterrowd Tele. Room, Holloman. GEM: jas: bIbne 454 COMM - FBI JUN 2 5 1954 MAILED 31 1954 VON.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, D. C. 6/21/54 24 Gentlemen: A book was published in 1953 by Desmond Leslie and George Adamski no hoe "Flying Saucers. Have Landed" Publishers - The British Book Centre, New York City• Is this book fact or fiction, are there Flying Saucers from other plenets landing on the earth? Has the story told by George Adamski about his contact with the man from Venus any foundation in fact? Please answer, many thanks, RECORDED-88 INDEXED-88 EX-112 Joseph, Gunderson, 5677 N. Las Casas Avenue, Chicago 30, Illinois. 62-23894-343 g JUN 1954

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