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65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_7
The FBI's 62-HQ-83894 case file includes investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports concerning Unidentified Flying Objects and flying discs documented between June 1947 and July 1968. The records include high-profile incident accounts, photographic evidence from sites like Oak Ridge, TN, and technical proposals regarding potential propulsion systems. Additional topics include convention programs, researcher accounts, and extensive media coverage from the period. This file is partially posted on FBI vault with more redactions and some pages missing. Included here is the complete case file with several newly declassified pages and only minor redactions.
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August 11, 1952
10 Mr. Edmond\:>\(ane
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\ Your letter dated August 1, 1952, has
been received, and I appreciate the interest which
: prompted your bringing your observations to my
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; 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
copy of your letter to the Director of Specildl Investigations,
The ‘Inspector, @Fenéral,iDépariment of <the Awr, Force,. Ihe Pentagon,
Washington, D. Co If you have jurtner observations along
this line, I would suggest that you may wish to com-
municate directly with him,
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August 12, 1952
Mrs., Ora L7 Tygrett
¢/o Lou Merlaw Farnm
Rural Route No. 1
New Palestine, Indiana
Dear Mrs. Tygrett:
Your letter dated July 31, 1952, addressed to the
War Department, c/o Federal Bureau of Inves tigat ion, 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 @ copy of your letter.
Sincerely yours,
John Edgar Hoover
Director
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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, De Ceo
From: John Edgar Hoover, Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Subdbject: FLYING DISKS
There is attached a Photostat of a self
explanatory letter dated Auguss 5, 1952, at
Pontiac, Michigan, received by this Bureau from
Mr. W. H. Jennings, 3096 Hazelmary, Zome 17, Pontiac,
Michigan, relating %o the captioned matter.
Mr. Jennings' 1letter has been acknowledged
and he has been informed shat a copy of his letter
has been furnished %o your eoffice for appropriate -
attention. No further action is contemplated in this
matter by this Bureau.
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Date: August 13, 1952
To: Director of Special Investigations
The Inspector General
Depariment of the Air Force
The Pentagon
Fashington 25, D C.
From: John Edgar Hoover, Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
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T Sudjeet: ~FLYING DISKS
There is attached a copy o/ a selS
explanatory letter dated July 31, 1952, received
by this Bureau from ¥r. Penedicto Romero, 1647
Park Avenue, New York City, relating to the
captioned matter.
¥r. Romero's letter has been acknowledged .
and he has been informed that a copy of his leiter
has been furnished to your o/fice for apyropriate
attention. No jfurther action is contemnplated in
this matter by this Bureau.
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Bureau files fail to reflect.anymi niw'vv 1107
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Date: August M, 1952
To: Director of Special Investigations
The Inspector General
Department of the Air Force
The FPentagon
Vashingtonrn 25, De Ce
From: John Fdgar Hoover, UDirector
_Federal Bureau of Investigation
Subject: FLYING DISKS
There is attached a copy of a self-
ezxplanactory letter dated August 1, 1552, received
by this Bureau from Mrs. Fred Haufe, 606 Walnut
Avenue, Fairmont, West Virginia, relating to g
the captioned matter. . k
¥rs. 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
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Reference is made to a letter from the Cincinnati Office dated , ) _.__
August 6, 1952, submitting an anonymous letter in German concerning € %, _»4&""]"”
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Attached are 7 copies of a translation of this German material l/\«\/‘*:'?;"/‘ WiV
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No reply has been made by us to the August 6, 1952, letter from |
Cincinnati.
RECOMMENDATION:
That the Domestic Intelligence Division review the Cincinnati
submission and accompanying Bureau translation, for appropriate handling,
noting particularly a suggestion in the last paragraph of the Cincinnati
letter to consider making this information available to other Governmental
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Flying Saucer,
a weapon tested in 194k, which is probably now being produced in
series, and at this time causes a great stir, is & V-weapon which
has a round body similar to a disk having a diameter of about
18«50 me On the outer ring it has about L5-50 automatic circular
nozzles which after the ignition of the disk circulate around a
plexiglass sphere in the center in which the measuring end controlling
devices for long-distance steering are loceteds In the sphere is still
sufficient space for atom bombs, These weapons are in lussian hands
and can have an effective range of 30-35,000 km. The constructor of
V-weapons RIEDEL in Germany stated that it concerns a typical V-weaspon
on which he had worked himselfs I am sure that the truth is better
than a panic among ignorant pecple.
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Director, FBI 8-18-52
SAC, San Diego (100=8565)
BORDERLAND SCIENCES , RESEARCH ASSOCIATES
San Diegoy Californiaj
MEAD LAYNE - Directorj MAX FREEDOM LONG - Director
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
I organizations
le 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".
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August 22, 1952
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DEXEL Dear Mr. Hoffmeyer:
EX. -73 Your letter postmarked August 15, 19852,
together with enclosure, has been received, and I
want to thank you for bringing this matter to ny
attention.
Inasmuch ag the contents oS your communie
cation do not reflect any violation within the
Jurisdiction of this Bureau, I am unable to comply
with your requests
I am taking the liberty of forwarding a
copy of your letter and your original enclosure %o
- the Director of Special Investigationsy The Inspector
reneral, Department of the Air Force, The Pentagon,
Vashington 25, Ds C., since these matters may be of
interest to that agencye.
Singcerely yours,
John Edgar Hoover
Director
To100m Copy of incoming to Dept. of Air Force.
e — NOTE: In view of corrfispohdsn}’sfnkf?fgb§e to a "steady white
::flf” light" circling their farm, his letter wmteh is being referred
o to the UsS<.iAir Force branoh: PBEemeshed in matters of this type.
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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
lighte It couldn't of been dropped out of @ 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 knowe.
Sincerely yours,
/s/ Wm Hoffmeyer
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Mr. John E.fLang
1413 South Vermont
Los Angeles 6, California
Dear Mr. Lang:
EX 73 Your letter of August 12, 1952, has been received
Y 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 anm
taking the liberty of making a copy of your communication
available to The Honorable, The Secretary of the Air Force,
The Pentagon, #ashington 25, D. C.
Sincerely yours,
Joahn Edgar Hoover
Director
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: rector, FBI August 5, 1952
P SAC, San Diego .
) BORDERL AND SCIENCES, RESEARCH ASSOCIATES
San Diego, Californiaj; MEAD LAYNE, 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
buillding housing the FBI office.
It is of interest to note that on Friday, August 1Ij
1952, at approximately 12:00' noon, FRANCIS OHM asked to seé
me urgently, which I did., As a member of the captioned B
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. I
He went on to relate that through the means utilized by hj*}\}:fl?-}:;
organization (which the enclosed literature will reflect | i Fi8
borders on the occult), they were asble to prognosticate £ .‘*..,;:;.,‘g»!:’-f' A
well in advance the recent earthquake which occurred in i-‘:;-;',-:;:--,,‘
Tehachapli, California., He advised that they have also R i
been sble to obtain the following informations "'33;:“‘,;: &
1. That a very severe tidal wave will hit the Weovisa
Pacific Ocean sometime in the not too remote future and S 4]
that most of the Japanese Islands will be washed away o
and disappear, Raen),
2., That ell fishes with scales in Japanese e b
waters will soon leave these waters for other destina- ;? 'f..':.
tions, in view of the oncoming tidal wave. ;:s_.‘__v:.'u
~,‘\’»§c 3. That this tidel wave will wash away the Fw
- Hawaiiean Islands, ,;,'
i, Thet the West Coast of the United States will :‘f
likewise be affected by this tidal wave. ';..::Z;?"
5, That they prognosticated the appearance of 3
e new island in the Pacific which was published in the S
newspapers within the past week. 5%,.9.
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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 actusl; 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 seaucers, they have disintegrators which they will
utilize and which will disintegrate these plmes 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., I told him that unfortunately this was very short
notice, that I had another commitment and that our stenographers
were pretty well occupied at that time, He sald 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 esny meetings of this
organization,
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Mre. Co SelLhoinski v
Koshkonong, Missouri 4
a9 Dear Mr. Choinski:
‘3\ Your letter dated August 14, 1952, has been
recetved, 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 ayency, I anm
taking the liberty of forwarding a copy of your com=
nénication 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.
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() O(fice Memorandum + uNiTED STATES GOVERNMENT
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TO : Mr. A. H. B,fmg ; DATE: August 22, 1952
FROM : Mr. W. A. Branigan///t/';‘/h Tolson
SUBJECT: FLYING DISCS o o
PURPOSE: Bt < i
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To recommend existing instructions to the field ::.mh_
re flying discs be called to the attention of the ey
field. B
BACKGROUND: '
4 review of communications received from the
Sield incdicates 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
SJlying saucers to 0SI locallye.
ACTION:
It is recommended the attached SAC Let ter
be issued.
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STANOARD FoRM No. 64 . ! ‘
}07fi6‘6 Memomndum * UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
ISR F BELKO”{;; DATE: ~ August 18, 1952
FROM : W. A, BA?AJ\'PG#}_\:"
SUBJECT: =~ FLYING DISCS YT
PURPOSE : e
To advise all Supervisors engaged on night ;%-——
duty of instructions concerning the referral of i
flying disc information to 0SI. vohe____
BACKGROUND : s o
Captain William Deegan, 0SI, 4th Air Force
Base, Bowling Field, has requested that any information
concerning the sighting of flying discs (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
i8 greatly concerned about the captioned matter, and
would appreciate the Bureau's cooperation in immediately
adviging of details received concerning such complaints.
ACTION:
: \ It is recommended a copy of this memorandum
be filed in the night and week=-end Supervisor's book
A \G in your office for their information.
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i (C)-jEL¥IHG>pISCS == 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 0SI locally complaints regarding flying discs, 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
Force memorandum, which was furnished to your office as an enclosure
to SAC Letter #38. The information should then be promptly fur-
nished to 0SI 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,
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FROM : D. J. 1%41280&'37Z L mwnvl
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SUBJECT: UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT\ / e
ALLEGEDLY CITED BY MR. D. éE\QFSVERGERS, e
WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA \ Rosen
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By letter of August 26, 1952, the Air Force requested “"——
W that we examine the cap of Mr. Desvergers, a scoutmaster :f”“‘——
at West Palm Beach, Florida, who claims that he observed agr / m;?————
unidentified flying obhject in a desolate area, He reporti? r?flfufiwurv-(
that upon his investigation, a ®EE object 30 feet in diam te;// 7
hovered over his head and shot a "red blob"” which causedrhim“to ///:"
lose consciousness. The cap has some holes burned in it and it / /)y
is reported that the hair on Desvergers' arms was singed. The [ ;
Air Force requested that we determine, if possible, from any ,‘ffi,r,f
residues left the nature of the residual material. /5Q1' /
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The Air Force desires an oral report on this tonight, [?.,M,\
We have finished the eramination and are preparing to advise the U
) Air Force as follows:
) l. There is no residue which would permit a determination
as to the nature of the material which caused the burns in the
cap, In addition to the obvious burns, there is one minute burned
area which is probably too small to have been caused intentionally
but more likely by a small hot ember,
2, The bill and a large part of the edges of the cap
are singed but the singeing is mot uniform as would be expected
\ if it had been caused at one time by a single flash of flame. The
N 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.
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N} 3. 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: That in response to the request, of Colonel Free
j0f the Air Force, it is recommended that he be
el b Nl k.gquly adying a&»ihe above. V/{;_,/:‘. / a/&;
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\%’ Dear Mre Elwell:
Your letter postmarked September 6, 1952,
has been received, and I appreciate the interest
prompting you to let me have the benefit of your
observations.
dince the contents of your communication
may be of interest to other governmental agencies,
I am taking the liberty of forwarding copics of it
to the Administrator of Civil Aeronau tics, Civil
Aeronautice Administiration, Depariment of Comme ree,
Washington, D, C., and to The Homorable, The Secretary
of Defense, The Pentagon, Washingten, D. C,
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O{fice Memomndum ¢ UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO 5 M He Bele}cl B DATE: September 20, 1952
FROM : C. E. Hennricl‘Cfi g L;—[
SUBJECT: STRANGE WHITE OBJECT SEEN OVER |/ 3“"‘*
MONTANA ON SEP'&EMBER 19, 1952 \ o
I talked vflfh ASAC Plaxico of Butte on September 20, 2
re the attached‘news releases indicating that the FBI Tolo. fa.___
was investigating a strange white object which reportedly S
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:
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W\ TO : DIRECTOR, FBI DAKR: “510/3 /52
FrROM 1 S VA SAC, NEWARK (100-36998)
UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL OBJECTS;
Inspector General, USAF W
2nd District Office of -Special Investigations
@7_ Broad ;étr‘.?_‘(?t C )// : 5
New York 4, New York CYing /] S
For the information of the Bureau, on August 2791952,
the Newark dlvision received a request from the Inspector General,
United States Air Force, 2nd District Office of Special Investi-
gations, 67 Broad Street, New York 4, New |York, that the back-
ground of a civilian photographer, JOHN B RILEY, 571 lMain Street,
Paterson, N. J., and of GEORGE ;I./;"“Tui, 221 Brooks Avenue, Passaic,
N. J., be investigated in an atfempt to determine their reliasbility
in view of the fact that they had 2llegedly observed and photo-
grephed 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 STOCCK did photogrsph an allegedly
unidentified zerial 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
Newark division.
In accordance with SAC letter #83, Series 1952 dested
8/29/52, the results of the credit and criminal checks and the
neighborhood investigations were forwarded to the local 0OSI
Office, New York -)i*iw and no further investigations have been
made by this office. VA v = e ] // 3'3{ v
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THE AAGUE THE HAGUE, October 6th
THE NETHERLANDS
Departmen* cf Justice
Pederal Bureau of Investigation
Pennsylvania Avenue
WASHINGTON P.C.
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In the care of Mr Bailey ]
Rm 1246
Dear Mr Bailey,
Excuse me please if I misspelled your name, but
I never saw it in writing.
On May 5th at 2.15 P.M. of this year I paid you
a visit in the F.B.I.offices, where I told you details on
a certain subject you will surely remember. At the end of
the conversation I promissed you not to talk sbout 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.
Pive 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 eachvaspect and while doing so I
found variouns complementary as well as fundamental details.
I have now reached the point however where I
would like to discuss the whole with an exnert and I
would therefor certainly anpreciate 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 if I do notu receive any information to
the 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. N 4
With very kind regards, N\
Yours™ Truly
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{\ ¥r. Fred JoAFekhout '
. 9 Stadhouderslaan
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The Netherlands
2ddr ¥r. Eekhout:
Your letter dated October 6, 1552, has been
recéived.
You will perhaps recall being advised at the
time of your visit to this Bureau that the matier discussed
was not within the jurisdiction of the FBI. However, in
view of your imminent departure from Washington the infor- 2
mation was accepted for transmitial to the appropriate oy
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. 3
Sincerely yours,
John Edgar Hoover
\ Director
NOTE ON YELLOW:
I Bulet to 0SI, Air Force, dated 5-7-52 transmitted data
furnished by kekhout to the Bureau 5-5-52 concerning his ideas :
ol as to plans for a workable flying disc. FEekhout was informed
S that further contact with him, if any, would come from the
S interested Government agency rather than the Bureau. No mention
Closs_____ was made of his keeping the facts secret pending a reply from
SRR the Bureau or the Air Force. . (62-83894-273)
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30 September 1952
MEMORANDUM FOR: MR. X ) ‘lfi«
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. :
7, PO PP
2. ATIC did not in any way indicate to Mr\Lang that the
FBI has an interest in flying saucers, Furthermore, Captain 'S
Ruppelt stated that the FBI to his knowledge has never been called X
upon to furnish reports on(!lying saucers, ATIC is under the X
_ impression that Mr. Lang made the Story up or picked it up from b ¥
. a magazine or newspaper article sometime back that definitely .
N was not associated with their organization. N
3. ATIC suggests that you check further with Mr. Al Chop, &
Office of Public Information, and perhaps he can supply you with N\
; b\ 3 the information you have requested.
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The following information concerning Air Force investlgatlons of unmusual
zerial phenomena is submitted in answer to your request,
In the Fall of 1947 the United States Air Force took officilal notice of
reports of so~called "flying saucers” becanse the reports from the pudblic
indicated that the problem might be related te the Alr Force responsibility for
the air defense of the United States.
On December 30, 19%7 the Air Force dfrected its Alr Materiel Command, at
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohlo, ta get up a project to collect and
evaluate all availeble facts concerning "flying saucer” sightings.
To perform this task the Air Materiel Command obtained the services of
civilian and military astronomgrs, psychologists, electronic gpecialists,
meteorologists, aeronautical engineers, and physicists.
On December 27, 1949, after 375 reported mightings had been investigated, the
Air Force, with the concurrence of the Army and the Navy, announced the findings
of the "flying saueexr" 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 aberxrations, or hoaxes,
There remained, however, a number of unexplained gightings, and the Air
Force has continued 1ts investigations inasmuch as it is an Alr 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 caonducted as
& normal intelligence function, wather than a special project, by the Alr
Technical Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Qhio.
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To date, the Air Force has undertaken to investigate and analyze .about 5
¢ 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
. ¥nown natural occurrences or man-made objects.
The unexplained reports, however, which are in the order of 20 percent of
the total, cannot be definitely assoclated with these familiar things.
Difficulty in Evaluating Reports
The difficulty in disposing of these unexplained reports is based largely
upon the insufficiency of accurate basic date such as size, shape, composition
end 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 sightings with these
instruments have been very infrequent and comprise an extremely small percentage
of the total, Moreover, even these reports have not included much of the
information required.
Because of the inadequacy of this basic data, the Air Force has in the past
devoted its efforts primarily to determining whether these unexplained sightings
indicated the existence of a menace to the United States. Initially it was
believed that some pattern might evolve from 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 facilitlos 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
a8 more is Xnown about occurrences in the upper atmosphere.
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Sourte of Reports 4 :
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The majority of reports of aerial phonomena 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
gualified observers, there is no intention to discredit untrained observers.
Redar Sightings
The Air Force has received many reports of unusual images on radar scopos.
It is fairly well established that some of these images are ground objects
veflected from a layer of warm air above the carth (a temperature inversion).
Temperature inversion reflections can give a return on a radar scope that
is as sharp as that received from an aircraft, Speed ranges of these returns
are reportedly from zero to fantastic specds. The "objects" also appear to move
in all directions.
Such radar sightings have resulted in hundreds of fruitless 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 reflection 1s an incident
which occurred in January 1951 near Oakridge, Tennesscc. Two Air Force aircraft
attempted to intercept an unidentified "object" and actually established a rader
"ock" on the object. Their altitude at the time was 7,000 fect. The unidentifiec
object, according to their radar, appeared to be at an elevation of ten to 25
degrees. Three pesses were made in an attempt to close on the objects In each
instance the pilots reported that their radar led thom first upward and then
down toward a specific point on the ground.
Tonized clouds are believed to be the cause of some unidontifiod radar
returns, Thunderstorm activity is identifiable by radar, and redar is used for
the purpose of avoiding thunderstorms. In addition, radar has picked up many
objects first reported as "unidentified phenomena" which were later identified
as aircraft, birds, balloons, ice formations in the air, or other known aerial
objocts or manifestations.
Policy Regarding Attemptod Interception
No orders have been issued by the Air Defense Command to ite fighter units
%o fire on unidentified aeriacl phenomena, The Alr Defonse Command is charged
with air deféense of the United States, and its mission is to attack anything
airborme which 1p known or appoars to be hootile, This should mot bo intorproted
to moon that owr pilote will firo haphogaxdly on anything that flles.
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Attempts at interception are not made overy time that unidentified images -
4 appear bricfly on an Air Force radar-scope. Current Alr Force interceptors axe
short-range, short-duration, high-speed aircraft and can be omployed most
offectively when it is poseible to track a target by visual or radar means
80 that its position in the air at some futurc time may be predicted with a
reasonable degree of accuracy.
Methods of Evaluating
The first step in eveluating sightings of unusual aerial phenomona is to
collect all available data and check it against known alrborne objects such as
balloons, aircraft, missiles, meteors, and weathor phenomena, If still unexplained,
reports from relisble sources, with sufficient details, are turned over to
specialists in various sclentific fields for further analysis,
Future Plans for Evaluating
As stated earlier, there is a need for better reports from trained observers
using adequate equipment, The Air Force intends to implement its present study
with instruments wherever possible,
The recent dovelopment of special photographic equipment may make it possible
to gather data hitherto unobtainable through ordinary photographic methods. This
equipment consists of a diffraction grating camera which separates light into its
component parts (spectrum) and registers them on film. The principle involved is
that used by astronomers in determining the composition of the stars. In this
menner Air Force scientists may be able to determine the characteristice 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 degrecs or nearly the whole sky from horizon
to horizon. This equipment will make 1t possible to get on a series of photo-
graphic plates a complete record of what happens in the sky at night.
What "Saucers” Are Not
The Air Force hes stated in the past, and reaffirms at the present time, that
theso unidentified aerial phenomena are not a secret weapon, missile or aircraft,
developed by the United States, None of the three military departmonts nor any
other agency in the govermment is conducting experiments, classified or otherwise,
with flying objects which could be a basis for the reported phenomena. As far a8
ig kmown there is nothing in them that is associated with material or vehicles
that are dirocted ageinst the United States, from another country or from other
planets.
Your interest in this matter is greatly eppreciated. Please call upon us if
we may be of further service.
Sincerecly yours,
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" Ag"PORTER AT Lg\"GE
‘ N midsummer of 1947, the . ed SOMETHING IN THE SKY eral of the Air Matériel Command,
I States Air Force, already concerned and its base was, and is, at Wright Field,
j with such problems as. the develop- investigation there was certainly no Dayton, Ohio. The project’s task turned
ment of guided missiles and supersonic harm in assuming for the moment that out to involve a mixture of old-fashioned
craft, the rigging up of radar networks, the era of interplanetary travel had detection, scientific analysis, public rela-
and its controversy with the Navy over arrived and the earth had become tions, and the study of a widespread
unification, found itself confronted by an objective for journeys from else- state of mind. In December, 1949,
another, and completely different, head- where in the solar system. Or—and this after \‘hwking, over a period of two
ache—the flying saucer. People in every would not necessarily exclude the first years, three hundred and seventy-five
section of the country were seeing two considerations—the Air Force may reports of intruders in the sky, the Air
strange objects that streaked across the have been setting up a smoke screen to Force publicly called it quits, but Project
sky at tremendous speeds, and while protect, in the interest of national secu- Saucer was not actually dishanded. Na-
these people,. who included such prac- rity, the secret of some experimental fly- tional security, the Air Force announced
ticed students of the heavens as air- ing objects of its own that only a trusted at the time, was not endangered. The
plane pilots, farmers, and the Licutenant few of its members knew about. What- flying saucers were apparitions, it said,
Governor of Idaho, were not able to ever the purpose, the investigation, with all attributable either to a failure to
identify the things they had seen, they which I have been in touch from time recognize conventional objects, to
were able to describe them vividly and to time, has seemingly been exhaustive. hoaxes, or to a mild form of mass hys-
unforgettably. The newspapers called The Air Force personnel originally teria. The Air Force, however, did not
the first of these mysterious objects a assigned to it was later augmented o letthe swnle e W
flying saucer, taking their cue from the astronomers, psychologists, - physicists, porlong aftes the Siint- dhi
man who reported having seen it and meteorologists, physicians, and repre- of Project Saucer, I had 3 aalk in Wiash-
who described it as saucerlike, and the sentatives of the F.B.I. The investiga- ington with Brigadier General Ernest
name stuck, :llthuu‘;}\ later people re- tion, which soon became I‘“I‘”l‘“'lv" Moore, then chief of Air Force In-
ported seeing things that looked like fly- known as Project Saucer, was first telligence, in the course of which he
ing chromium hubcaps, flying dimes, headed by Licutenant.General Benja- made four categorical statements that
flying teardrops, flying gaslights, flying min Wi Chidlaw, Commanding Gen- 1 felt sure he had made many times be-
“w-cream cones, and flying pie plates.
As more and more curious things were
seen in the skies, cautioysly 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
]vr.ltr writers had concluded that the
objects, whatever they might be, were
m;umu'd by Russians, and that as soon
as their pilots had reconnoitred suffi-
uu-m]:\', they would return loaded with
atomic !\nmh.x. Others thought the earth
was hhtm;] visited by space ships from
another planet. Still others suspecte.
that our own Ajr Force was ix!:’&r\u[!‘li] Clipped from The NEW YORKER
u.'.\tin:' some new form of aircraft, September 6, 1952
J;\'ur,\'uuc agreed, hunu\cr, that it PRESHI S Lusough ol
was up to the Air Force, as the cus-
nu?l:m nf our welkin, to explain the
flying (:hjcrts and, if necessary, to repel
them. The result was the launching
by the Air Force, on January 22, 1 94S.
n‘f a special in\v\ti;;niun, 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
uf reassuring a jittery populace, the Air
I‘(u.'(c, in cmh.‘n'king upon this under-
F;lkm;;, had any or all of three things
in .n‘mul. It may well have shared the
civilian concern over what, if anything, 32
the Russians might have to do with the : e
reported phenomena, and jt may even —?2‘ O
have felt that to insure a rhm'uu:h:uin:
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fore. Xt off, he s aid, “tigg Russians tenant Governor Donalc .‘h s
have nothing to do ’ so-called of Idaho, disclosed that &'he
LR saucers; Il swear te wia. 2 a stack of had seen a comet-shaped objece tiling
Bibles, if you like. Sec ond, wc‘don’t over the western part of the state. It ;
. have any secret new £y 'es of @ircraft finally dipped below the horizon, he K
that could have started ally %" eommo- said. (Later on, the personnel of Proj-
tion. ‘Third, nobodyj in our ¢ ipinion, has ect Saucer decided that rlnf‘ Liclltc{]:m[
spotted space ships fl'o?fl s ome uthc"r Governor had been lfu)km; at L‘I)th(‘l‘
planet. Fourth, c\'erythu'!g; our investi- Saturn or Mercury.) Four cops in I ort-
gators learned has been” made available land, (4)1‘%’“'.)’ saw a group of discs
to the public.” f‘wuyl’shlmg, disappearing, and reappear-
ing.
HE first saucer in.cid@nt occurred Reports of other phenomena having
Ton the aftexnge/R of]une 24,1947, been seen in the skies appeared in the
when Kenneth Armold, on a business papers almost daily. Two Army officers
trip for 2 Boise, Tdaho, firm that makes at Fort Richardson, Alaska, reported
|| fire-control equipmient, was flying his seeing a spherical object flying through
privivatp whe from ¢ :hfcll:llis, \\tu‘shing- Fhu air at l!l\’!'t‘(»lll)lL‘ ,\ptc.«] and lu:x\':
ton, to Yakima, W Jashington. The re- ing no vapor trail; some fishermen off
flection of @ brigh 't flash on one wing Newfoundland saw a series of aerial
caught his eye. ¥ Ie turned and, at a flashes, silver to reddish in color; a lady
distance he tho ught was about twenty in Oregon watched a group of saucers
miles, saw what he took to be nine tail- spell out “P-E-P-s-1,” and alerted her
less aircraft he ading toward Mount neighbors to the presence of foreign
Rainier RS could see their outlines quite agents practicing a secret code in our
< -amly 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- iy \ fireworks display. Dr. Paul
nold said he watched the \\ \\\ o Fitts, an Ohio State Uni-
saucers for three minutes M\ versity psychologist who
and estimated their speed at A\l was for a time attached to
about twelve hundred miles \flk Project Saucer, considered
an hour. =y this crowded condition in
Air Force technicians, \ the holiday skies the result
consulted 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 : Y ways increase dramatically
ten-story building flying / after publicity,” he has
through the air, I won’t A since told me. “The sky,
say a word about it,”” he de- N 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 FR()M the beginning, the officers in
people turned up with similar re- 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 page 64
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
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o g SO ”st. mt saw?” Major e~ rgs, who was
. LA : - « | then the chief W@ Jicer between
malw Wright Field and tI\ghigh command
A in Washington, said to me one day
’m”l(f]m”!lerooo shortly after Project Saucer had pre- .
sumably become a thing of the past.
Ll {5 o o .
6b‘fictml¢m9’45 “It would be different if flying sau-
| cers were known to exist. Then we ]|
= could have collected evidence indi-
e cating the degrees of probability that
- —’—\/( P—— such things were sighted and the reason
z @\l_ll_%: sz for their appearance at a given place.
— > — fi \"// But it is impossible to prove, logically
fi i R and with finality, a double negative—
v””’ that is, that there are no flying saucers
! ( Z and that people have not seen flying sau-
B | cers. The best we could do under the
UL @ circumstances was to deduce, first, from
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bums at'no extra charge. reason there was for suspecting people
Other “Victrola™ 45 record changers had seen saucers.” The Major shook
as low as $16.75. his head, and continued, “It’s a difficult
: e concept to grasp, but so was the job we
Oy RCAVICTOR. |0 i
oo .o -
HZ(IA’GS [/1(.’ ‘lct“.lll &) b I asked Major Boggs \\hulhuv lIILl.L
Tmks. ® Division of Radio Corporation of America was any way to account for ‘h"]")“d““““
———————————————————— | of reports of strange celestial objects.
LOVELY TO LIGHT BY . .. AR ok e
Of course there is,” he replied. “If
you look up at the sky long enough, you
\ : A candelabrum of | can almost always make out something
1 | Italian wrought ] i I - 7 o > 2 \ l ~t
g ' iron in stylized there that APPLA‘I\ strange. And more
1 flower and leaf people are looking up now than ever
a ¥ design set off by »s by K
J s delicate seroll- before. Kids don’t count freight cars ‘
work and finished P re . S ~ airnls - » 7Y
fig * g sy any more; {lul\Aumm. 4Ill'?|.lnl>. I LUPIC
e » ¢ for dramatic \\'h‘) were “'Jllnk’ll m amwr UhSCr\';\“()fl
N BI contrast with R ANy s rie
N 3 c e b Sy d\mn,I the war have gone lls‘lli on
e bl Height 93", observing. Also, the public hasn’t for-
s n{ I 8" across. $7.50 b
- - Postage .58, gotten that the atomic bomb was kept
gt 4 west of Miss. .75 P2 . ! e R DR
Ne 000, piease. | S€CTEE from it for three years. This
f Open Saturday 9-5 | time, people want to know what’s cook-
? & ing, so they look up.” Major Boggs
m HOUSE OF ITALIAN HANDICRAFTS sighed. “T'ime was when people used
o 217 East 49th St.. New Vork I7. PL 9-6510] v make a wish if they saw a shoot-
| / ing star. Now they telephone the Air
NITE sight stan Forcs
L2 Major Boggs and I pondered this
i unromantic age in silence for a mament.
- ¥ R = .
\ < T'hen he returned briskly to the prob-
" lems that had confronted the investi-
4 { gators. ““T'he one tangible thing we had
¥ to work on was the fact that the sky is
¥ Eioss full of things,” he said. “I can’t even
o come close to estimating the number of
by { commercial and military aircraft up
!| there at any given moment. Then, there
3 are more than five hundred outfits of
AV Istding. ranarisahdbdssenmans: ausr: - | one kmld or :mu_thcr that release balloons rage 67, 68
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T e % had behaved like 2 normal’ aircraft ¥
,1 in the way it (lfS:l])')'“] the line | 8 . et
of sight, bt e
ol o 1 Here, the experts professed to hope, %oy i b ‘3‘3;1{?5&%3#; .
was something Project Saucer could get HTIREL A i
! [ its teeth into. The whole flying-saucer R
mystery might be explained. The first
Step was to determine whether the ob- 4
" ject was an aircraft that had been par-
tially obscured by a cloud or whose A
appearance had been distorted by a rain- '
storm. Two hundred and twenty-five
civilian and military flight schedules E i "
were analyzed, and it was found that : _\
one other plane, an Ajr Force C-47, @ i 3
had been near the Eastern airliner at ! i 4
the time the mysterious object was 3 RTINS i
sighted. Conjecture about the C-47 / #2 1) .
began to appear irrelevant, however, Yy é
when the Macon ground crews agreed ’“'tfgfi
with Chiles and Whitted that the thing 3:‘ 0:»
they had seen was going much faster EPaT S FEET L ENE
than two hundred miles an hour, and s i {13k
so, . unless it dawdled around some- : ,m"‘_ L7 g
where, wouldn’t have taken anything | LSRR ! Tl y
like an hour to get from Macon to
Montgomery.,
Astronomers went to work on the
problem. Dy, Hynek considered the 5 .»‘}
possibility that a brilliant, slow-moving | # 1 T——— s;-*ggi‘ _‘“’)'
meteor might be the explanation. Varj- g;&#‘ ‘,fi,"‘n‘?fl;5,‘}3‘:‘.?’;‘3“’:"2' L &
ous bits of the apparition’s description 'j fz?filj“"}f‘é::}fi"ié'h -,!4,
encouraged this notion—“orange-red | "13.‘,'~.,;‘ !x'}'i ; b et
flame,” “ci;:xr-\h:lpud," “a tremendous :t.“!."';‘_"",? g :
burst of flame.” [,'nhn‘hu];t(u])‘, the | S5 "
flight schedules of meteors are not avail- | S
able, and Dr., H)nvk had no means of
testing his hypothesis. “Tt will have to o §
be left to the psychologists to tell yus ,A/ffi/}/
whether the immediate trail of a bright g /
meteor could produce the subjective im- ) 3 < 7T
pression of a ship with lighted win- _/ */
dows,” he Wwrote in a report on his / ///} ////
findings. The psychologists expressed g o 5 by
the opinion that 2 meteor could indeed :
l*:« m.~mkrn. for a space \)n‘p. Dr. Fitts, An utterly new carpet
the Ohio State psychologist, observed ; %
that both Chiles and \")nm-d were .creating an unusual textu
human and therefore as likely to be h‘"eme,l'v SIALE 0.4 ff)r i
victims of mass suggestibility as any- Chosen by leadmg ded
one else. Dy, I"ftt:\mld me \lm‘ing':l in carpet fashion and lJuxur
talk I had with him that psychologists And, of course, Nye-Wait 1
are used to the fact that even people of ad\'antages of being mothpro
high mental calibre often make mis- for lasting fit to withstan
takes about what they see. “Also, T will outwear conventj
,“,‘,’“I,‘?, I‘I,\(. Itn H].vlkk T)u pull?{}]hlt M'.’“ Write .\:)'e-lf'nilfor the
are trained to instruments,” he said,
“They grow very dependent on those
“struments, and | don’t know whether N e-
e necessarily superior observers 'y
out them. I do know that during 295 Fifth %
e war, when T was in the Air Fnr(c, New Yor page 69, 70
pilots r'rcqucntl_\ gave some pretty odd Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco,
reports of what they’d seen while fly-
ing their missions.” Chiles and Whitted *l.”l.mml”’ is NYE-WAIT'S COR
F 5 3 visible depth, translucent color and
u’uhl'\ agreed that thejr report might
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—_— - ik t
— %
Vi MBS % ing a routine patrol for th Nor ¥ Da.
b kota Nationa] Guard, ang ju ked ¥ .
l I&L I N - the tower at the I";n‘gu .\lunll'ip;ll Air-
R BEOROOM FuRNiTyRg port for clearance to land when he saw
; what seemed be another plane’s tajl-
X light a thousand yards a way. He querijed
" - the tower, and the men there reported
= that the only other aircraft oyer the field
j e . Was a Piper Cyb, Gorman could see the
t* W Cuh}[)].u‘nh uutlim-l«l lln»]‘ln\', him.r(,'uri-
i 1 ous, he flew toward the ight, « t was
.'? ,"'fis about six to eight inches ‘in di:lmvru',
| e ue clear white, and compl«tcly round, with
— : a sort of fuzg a¢ the edges,” Gorman
1 | | l o later told in\'cilig:nm\, mHing that he
".J_ Py Saw “no outline of anything» around
' o i = the edges, “T¢ was Minkmg on and off,
. s p AR As I:xpph::u‘l'k‘d, however, the light sud-
o y denly became steady and pulled inte
a sharp Jefy bank. .| T dived after j¢
and brought MY manifold presgyre up
3 > to sixty inches, byt I couldn’t Catch up
HIGHBOY DESK i, genuine with the lllm’g. It started gaining alj-
SOLID mahogany from the New tude and again made 2 Jefy bank. T put
Arlington Group by Kling, 4 my F-51 into a sharp tyrp and tried
dis!inctfve addition ¢o any room, to cut the lighy off in its turn. By then,
4x leading e We were at aboyt seven thousand feet,
Full color bookler, “Your Bed. Suddrnl'\ it made sharp right turn
\':)’L‘L’Z\:,’:‘)‘m“.’)‘:‘“h‘:'"c’fl’(‘ :‘,;"f.‘;l:.' and we headeq straight at each other,
fiture and bedroom decoration Just when we were about ¢ collide,
ood arrangement, Sepq rad in : de,
<oin to Kling l-‘.uronus.l)cm.\"). I guess T got scared. T weny nto a dijye
Mayville, Ny £
and the Jighe passed over my canopy at
KUNG MEans \‘\‘@Al,\“l{}z{'?g;\r‘}(fiy .‘1!!1:1}[ five hundreq feet, Then made
\ - a left circle about a thousand feet above,
A ‘ and T g:nu.xh:(.\c Jlg:lfn." Gorman fol-
:g'.u; z lowed the light up to fourteen thousand
PO i v‘; 5 feet, w here, after another peay collision,
.»:;.5_3‘ " = wr s M - his ship wene into a power stall and the
N - light dis.l;)pu:n'cd to the northwest,
\» ey, P 8| Gorman noticed no sounds or Lj\h.“l\f—
s © ‘l‘\\‘\ 3 trail odors, He had gunpeq his plane
R up to four hundred miles an hoyr v ith-
\;/ out gaining on the light. It was able to
maintain an extremely Steep angle of
—_p . ascent, far greatey than that of his Ajr
" > Y X Force fighter., “When I attempted tq
x,’""’""""“"" turn with [the light 13T blacked out
M temporarily, dye ¢, excessive speed,” he
SOfIf and warm said. “T am i fairly good physica] condi-
tonand I do nee believe there are many,
'd d if any, pilots who could withstang the
as 1/ er own turn and speed effected by that light and
Crush a Mariposq Blanket in your hong remain conscigys,”
Feel the soft, springy fibers, shown aboye, Project Saucer suspected that Gop.
;:u,:;::mw:i:mr:iz:f,T:‘.Z;fi?:;a’; man was tilting with , weather balloop,.
sleep awaits e, under o Mariposq For one thing, it learned that the l’:lrgo
A g:":;:chmm of Mariposa Cofors of o weather station h:nf' !'L‘IL‘ZI\('(" a lighted
dealer's, balloon only ten minutes before Gor.
man’s patro] stopped being routine, 7. 72
ALL WooL The object’s steady, practically vertical page 2,
mRIPOSA climb suggested the behavior of , bal-
B LA N KET loon, A technician wh, once worked on
MADE gy Project Saucer tolq me recently thag
SHULER &BENMNG“OFEN chasing 5 weather balloon with an gjr.
HAMILTON omra plane js Comparable ¢, diving to the
bottom of , pool after 4 hollow rubber
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23 T ‘\. M .
¥ nany saucers ien ’'m
’ holding one in my n\"' he said.
y The rancher forwart , find to v
% 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 ’/(x
four and five hundred miles an hour. .J B
He snapped two pictures of it with his . g "
Brownie. Prints were rushed to Project & 3
Saucer, and Dr. Irving Langmuir, the .
physicist and a Nobel Prize winner, was b;”: |
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asked to study them. The distinguished Caricct
scientist learned that a thunderstorm ._'unmmw'"
had occurred just before the picture- ~ _‘_&__'__ 3
taking, and concluded that he was look- 5 T
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ing at a couple of rather poor shots | omroER > ‘%f‘
of a piece of paper being buffeted by B\ > V& _l
P pat : e —
the wind. e
R L&
N 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. | PUERTO RICAN RUM GOLD OR WHITE LABEL-
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 MAKE HARD so ' <. and
officers were instructed to solicit the as- MATTRESSES with thi
sistance of mun}rlp:n] police officials, \.\'l‘\n This' cony -cotion “plllow’” for 4
might be familiar with the personalities | your body coaxes sweet sleep 19
of the saucer observers. The F.B.I. was from hard mattresses and in- fi\ \uz.s‘e
Vi G T Ay ferior beds. Special boon to o Pon'?
also called upon for assistance, an¢ as- | invalids and aged. Easy fo carry PN
signed agents to help interview people | out and sun. $17.95 in blue-&- N i
who reported that they fad seen-dises, | While ACA, $19:95 i ose, Bice e
== £ v or green damask, full or twin
The agents used a standard question- | sizes, shipping charges prepaid. :
naire, dra by Air Force Intelli- | Immediate shipment — Absolyy,
naire, drawn up Dy Al orce Intell itk PR T
. AR : Suarg, action,
| gence, which called for such informa- Anteeq O"
tion as the saucers 51{(',r \Iu'ul‘, RUGTMl nIRECT MATTRESS CO. "We':e‘:lmgllk
and maneuvers. The information was <
usually transmitted to Wright Field,
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but some stories were so obviously ~= ———eee e
false and some “evidence” so obvious- ((‘ 5
ly trifling that the F.B.I. men didn’t dre W ‘F
even bother to fill out the question- €4 Mg iy xg p]
naire. In Seattle, (nlv mxu»nu. I.m ’-\‘ &".‘u’fl“‘. o h
alarmed woman called the police to in- u“flifl t FE L
form them that a flaming disc had land- T D ;’“‘o Tk
ed on her roof. The object turned out e T hv‘ - “’J
to be a hollow, drum-shaped affair n‘-"_u “C ‘;‘3‘ "
made of plywood, with “USSR” crude- | /At Whilshouse foicgy "; »;"(, % ‘f“ €
ly daubed on it in paint. An F.B.I. man uiNas:of b
£ : City. of Pari: . ~ i o
found that a turpentine-soaked cloth e g s 3 SR En i5 74
: 5 in San Francisco A 3 s rg 7 [
had caused the flame. A practical joke, 3 P EEHE pag - i
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he decided. A farmer near Danforth KRR T
Illinois, reported that a saucer had | At other leading stores or write S o
crash-landed in_one of hl\’f“.L‘!«L. and EXETER Hosiery Mills « Executive Offic
burned up a patch of weeds The F.R.1 Sales Offices: 330 Fij
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. o on the retina and moving as the eye
Other elements of th&Mug problem
» were studied by such men as Dr. George -
, Valley, a nuclear physicist at the Massa- 'y p——
chusetts Institute of Technology; staff et
] members of the research firm of Rand ’ 4 5
. Corporation; an assortment of physicists 7 L
and aerodynamicists who specialize in 4
the study of the stratosphere and the / L
space beyond it; and the electronics ex- pi
perts attached to the Cambridge Field i b s
Station. These men were all searching [ 4 é ‘
for physical rather than psychological | { * !
explanations, and some fairly strange 4 4 ; :’,
theories occurred to them—the possibil- ". < I8
ty that extraterrestrial animals were i }'
flying into our atmosphere, for e xample. 2\- : "
(No data turned up to support that ar- AL e
resting idea.) The theory that the sau- o : Lo
cers were hostile aircraft was carefully 1 A
studied and rejected. “The perform- g 7
ances of these saucers not only surpass :-'
the development of present science but § J'
the development of present fiction-sci- e *
ence writers,” one scientist noted. The - f
specialists also considered and rejected 2 "
the concept of discs capable of riding the o e
air on beams or rays of some kind. They 3 ) -
even speculated on whether the anti- T4 ’ _,.w"-
gravity shield that H. G. Wells thought 3 !— > o ,
up for his novel “The First Men in the ‘f ; T ;’
Moon” would work; it wouldn’t, they & x’ r i\
decided. The supposition that interplan- ‘.j'/ i
etary craft were whizzing in at us was E ;:
also discredited, despite its popularity “‘ 1 : 1
with laymen. Space ships, the scientists 5 A ; %
thought, would have to be so ]:n'gr and ), 4 B
unwieldy that they couldn’t possibly zig- 2 .,u il g “
zag as frivolously as the reported saucers A Epie 1
did. Besides, a space ship, regardless of its \ "; 5 “‘j:i )
size, could not, in the opinion of these 0 N g i,«\ ( J
men, carry sufficient fuel to remain for 3 ‘ "5r,v
any length of time in the earth’s dense "s&‘.‘,:',v Ny :5/’
atmosphere. The scientists noted, too, ?’,",'
that the supposed spacemen showed a re- gy
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. The so
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 FOR STORE NEAR J
Mars took on a new urgency, and a new WRITE HAYMAKERS BY AVON, £ \’.\
corollary: If there are living creatures 47 MTISTHSL. ANW IC page 75. 76 .|
on Mars, would they be capable of S} SSHE SRECK OR MONKY om0k DIRESTLY ér i R e E
building space ships? The astronomers
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n that—that while the information they _—fi '
give e may be m:ulr” their ;
names never will be,” m®¥ cases, & g
- Captain Ruppelt said, investigation 5 "‘
has shown that the people he has inter- ‘Q
viewed had been deceived by things s/'
. that have been deceiving others all ;; //\V
along—balloons, planes, meteors, and L?};‘{;‘ ‘:‘.@
so on—but a nettling residue of around o ”"’""-‘
twenty per cent of the cases have wound e
up in that exasperating old pigeonhole o
labelled “Unidentified.” Nothing, for
example, could be found to account HAVE YOU GRASPED
for the “something silvery direc tly ’
overhead” reported iV}' a m'\svtificxl Civil THE %Dutbm[[k IDEA?
Aeronautics Administration inspector at
Terre Haute. A commercial pilot who, Hcrc is tailoring so completely flexit
flying near Battle C"""kj ‘\““i“:l»"""" natural that the comfort contrast is re:
spotted “an oval-shaped \‘],W_" object” markable. Once you experience the blissf
ahead of his ship, posed a similarly un- 3 i, DR
% i and casual distinction of SUPERFLEX co
solved problem, as did a highly respected ; ; ;
naval officer, stationed at the dirigible tion, you'll ncw‘r go back to over-stuffed
base at Lakehurst, New Jersey, who re- .\it)'led clothes. Suits from $70. Sports
ported that he had stared through his from §55.
binoculars at a brilliant image making At these and oth
turns that were far too tight for any PAUL STUART, INC. ARTHUR L
known aircraft. New York City Boston
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T'wenty-five per cent of the obsery- Baltimore, Md. Philadel
ers interrogated by the Aerial Phenom- ‘{5""5"‘?7(’”"59 Rosm,-l;:l..“l
ena Officer in the last two and a half :
years have been military pilots. Eight Toruicreriia oily
per cent have been commercial pilots, GRIECO BROS., Inc., 200 Fift
some with as much as twenty years’ ex- ————————
perience in the air, and at one stage in Ba
the current ph:mi f’f the investigation, B -*'\ ey
even a few physicists at Los Alamos, b ’ e A
New Mexico, men who make a fetish “ 1% a‘f’" ' N .
of objectivity, were interviewed after SR o \l\bi: F.:
they reported having seen puzzling | ZONE I EG\‘ 3‘«3;‘ :
lights hovering above their atomic- 1 \ & o _.'f,/"‘;(,»
energy laboratories. “If you took Qb \ = L
any one of these incidents by itself, \“:r(\; %
it might not mean much,” Captain C)
Ruppelt said. “But in view of the e C\\QR
number and calibre of the informants, (&)))(:‘,
you couldn’t help taking their claims \_,l J@(‘s_&)
seriously,” é‘;/
In l']-hrn:n'y, 1951, Dr. Urner 3
Liddel, a nuclear physicist attached to A :
the Office of Naval Research, at Wash- b
ington, D.C., declared that at last, &
thanks to the lifting of certain security HIGHLIGHTS IN 14K GOLD
restrictions, he could provide the solution
to the mystery of the flying saucers: Present her with a smart acce
They were “skyhooks,” he said—bal- the school year right and acc
loons a hundred feet in diameter, which Ring $40. 17J Movado
the Navy had secretly been sending up (Available in stainlé
for the past four years in order to Poodle charm $53.50
study cosmic rays. Dr. Liddel’s asser- Cut-out initials (Allow one wed
tion was immediately disputed by Dr. Shown Actual Size * Fed
Anthony O. Mirarchi, who, as former Mail and Phone Orders Filled
head of the Air Force’s Atmospheric I Q [}K STAR )
(l{‘”nP“Tl[“;’“PB“'rCH“\“ had assisted inIl)hc ) p8re T7, 78
diagnosis of Project Saucer reports. Dr.
Mirarchi said }'ic thought tllw saucers FIFTH AVENUE AT 48TH STR
might be missiles from some foreign EAST ORANGE MANHASS
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Vi fourteca minutes, Pierm:n‘w.’ 1
MARI{” bright - lights that resemb! tar s [ ¢
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e s, shooting stars, but three of them were | «
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Aevuist ing star he had ever seen. Another com- | .
. Fifth Ave. at55th, N.Y. 22 mercial pilot who was reached in flight
e nearby said that he saw a light off his
+ K : left wing; Barnes found a corresponding
R A S p 2 S
e PIp on the radarscope. Other pilots in the
L | \'icinil_\' reported, however, that thu_\
" could see nothing unusual, Toward
S d;|_\ break, ten peculiar pips were counted
X \innll:;lnu)u.\l) on Barnes’ screen.
“There is no other conclusion I can
reach but that for six hours on - the
\ | morning of the twentieth of July there
were at least ten unidentifiable objects
moving above \\':15]151\;:011,” Barnes
wrote. “They were not ordinary ajr- | .
craft. ... Nor in my opinion could any |.
X i ; natural phenomena account for these | |
The Mark Cross spots on our radar. Neither shooting | ¢
OXFORD SHIRT stars, electrical 1I[>[lll'l\ll]1('k‘>, nor clouds §
could, either. Exactly what they are, I | ¢
More popular than ever — even for don’t know. Now you know as much | «
city wear — the button-down collar %S ¥ g el O
shirt in finest oxford, woven with about them as I do.” And your guess is | ¢
fully combed yarn. Button cuffs, as good as mine.” b
rl:—‘fl” collar, 3235 sleeve. :’;bsn; A week later, at 9:08 P.M. on|!
0] ue. - . - - v .
e L 4 ok July 26th, the Air Route Traffic Con-
With it — an imported silk knit tie PRSI 3 ¥
hand-framed for Mark Cross, Black trol Center’s radarscope again showed
navy, grey, brown, green, wine. 5,50 unidentifiable objects over Washing- | -
Mail and phone orders filled, SU 74000 ton. ..\n did the screen at l.hu A\mlrc\'\:s {
Air Force Base, Just outside the capi- |
T T T e e I X T 2 2 tal. Two jet interceptors, capable of .
_ doing six hundred miles an hour, | !
I#'s ;}4 ‘ It's were dispatched frum. a ix:xfc near New |
Here! : t ’ New! Castle, Delaware, to Investigate. When
¥ ‘//- the inttrcvptnrs appeared on the radar-
et scopes, they were guided toward the
\%‘Q i N | objects. One of the pilots sighted
S\ A ] g four lights approximately ten miles
(e . e . KT
— in front of his plane and slightly above
2 e i A o
it, but they vanished while he was
J w\ trying to overtake them. Twenty
minutes later, he saw “a steady white
T o Y B A G P ' P E light,” but within a minute it, too,
disappeared. “We havye no evidence
Easy to P"’Y—°"IY $4.98 they were flying saucers,” an Air Force
Complete with blowpipe, drones, chaunter, bright representative said later, “Conversely,
plaid bag and ribbons, this sasytoplay American [0y no evidence they were not
Bagpipe is an authentic replica of the Scotch in % S S
sptient, but sounds mellower and sweeter. Anyone | flying saucers. We don’t know what
can lean to play popular tunes in a matter of min. they were.”
utes just by reading numbers, Made of washabl. RS LSt i
Styrene and Vinylite, it’s safe, sanitary and strong. \‘ a result of f’_“fl !\‘\n Inu(.]gnb,
Fascinating fun-maker for children and grown ups particularly the one involving the inter-
it parties and family songfests. Satisfaction guaran. ceptors, public agitation reached a new
teed or your money back. Send check or money order t P o
for only $4.98 (includes how-to-play song folder) to: height. The Air Force was bombarded
TIMESAVERS DEPT., Dept. NY-9 with hundreds of letters, telephone calls,
2 West 45th st, New York 19, N. v. | and telegrams demanding information
\—»—“—\%\' and offering advice. One of the smaller
MRS. KAR o's airlines supplied its crews with cameras
H A ND lA " N D R y and ordered them to photograph any
160 EAST 62nd STREET saucers they L{lL()ElI][LlL(i A civilian P8EE 79 80
TEmpleton 8-6516 wrote to the Air Force that he would L
Specialists in silks, laces, fable linens, shirts; let it in on “the secret” in return for a
Smaderate rates: colonelcy. A Los Angeles astor wrote
Laundering for the finest homes corneicy. aulos o B PAStOr WIotS
to Einstein, hcscwumg him to clear up
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< g tronomers, whom 1 = “alled “our best
[ 50 advisers . . . in t »ss of visitors § » .
. [ from L‘l.w\\vhurc,‘(.;nph the sky ‘ .
¥ e ntinuously, but they had reported no
saucers. The General was reminded
v 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 ‘no mass’ means is that there’s
nothing there.”
WH”,P: 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-
zust 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 nl! the earth’s :\[nwspherc.' page 81, 82
high or low, which would dnp]ic:nc!
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Date: OCctober 28, 1952
To: Director of Special Investigations
The Inspector General
Department of the Air Force
The Pentagon
Fashington 25, D. C.
From: John Edgar Hoover, Director
KAt 142 Federal Bureau of Investigation
RECORDED - 449 : j -7 2/
Subject: FLYING SAUCERS
There are attached for your information
@ copy of a self-explanatory letter dated Octodber 21,
1952, and the enclosures thereio, received by this
Bureau from Mr. Narvel W. Reece.
Mr. Reece has been advised that his letter
has been referred to your Deparitment. Ne further action
its being taken in this matter by this Bureau.
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3 Ofi%‘e Memorandun ONITED STATES GOVERNMENT
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* MR. A. H. BELMONTM A DATE: October 8,~W
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Reference is made to an article which appeared in »?g{
"rheXWVew Yorker" dated September 6, 1952, which is attached.
This article which was written by Danie ang contained coii
inaccurate information regarding FBI inveshigations, indi- e
cating that the FBI conducts certain inquiriss regarding i
flying saucers at the request of the Air Force. It is Noasm____
pointed out here that, although the Bureau did at one time o TR
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 (0SI), which in turn transmits the information
to Air Intelligence. Air Intelligence has set up the Air
Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force
Base, Dayton, Ohio, for the purpose of coordinating and handling
of research pertaining to 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 0SI 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 @eneral Samford's office.
Colonel Young also telephonically contacted Captain Ruppelt 1
of the Air Technical Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, 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 .w’<
or picked it up from some magazine or newspaper article sometime,) P
back. Both Colonel Young and Captain Ruppelt are thoroughly oM
familiar with Bureau policy pertaining to flying saucera.éL’NN
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Memorandum for Mr. A. H. Belmont, 10/8/52 . ]
Colonel Young suggested that Jurther 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 advised that he was Samiliar
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 seucers 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
aerticle up to date. He contacted Mr. Chop for further current
information. Mr. Chop advised that he gave Lang some routine
items of interest regarding Slying saucer complaints and
investigations by the Air Force, but that he instructed Mr. Lang
not to contact the Air Technical Intelligence Center for further
information from that source. Mr. Chop also advised that at
no time was the FBI mentioned and thet he has no idea where
Lang obtained the information appearing in his article concerning
FBI investigations. Mr. Chop advised that he is thoroughly
Samiliar 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 Sflying 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
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Memorandum for Mr. A. H. Belmont, 10/8/52 )
is ordinarily given to newspaper reporters or writers who
make inquiry in the Office of Public Information.
ACTION:
None. For your information.
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STANDL 61D FORA NO. 64 ' - : b .
OJfice Mem0mndzmz * UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO : MR. A. H. BELMONTV S DATE: Qctober 27, 1952/
FROM : V. P. KEAY}'; < Lag
) susiEct: “FLYING SAUCERS W =
SYNOPSIS: e
Air Intelligence advised of another creditable and ™=
unezplainable sighting of flying.saucers. Air Iptelligence iy
\,' still feels flying saucers are optical illusions or gimos= LA TR
] pherical phenomena but some Military officials are semiausly
considering the possibility of interp'iva_:fiétary 8hips.
; BACKGROUND :
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 Technicel. intelligence. Center located ot
Wright=-Patterson.Air.Force Base,. Dayton, 0hios; that approrimately
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. Youn Executive Officer to Major General
John A.. Samford,. Director of i‘ht’e"lli’genc’e, Air Force, advised on
October.23, 1952, that angther recent extremely creditable sighting
had been reported to Air Intelligence. A _Navy photographér, while
traveling across the United States in his own car, saw G number of
objects in the sky which appeared to be flying saucers. He took
approrimately 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. Ezperts
at the Air Technical Intelligence (enter have advised that, ajfter
careful study, there were as many as twelve to sizteen flying objects
recorded on this film; that the possibility of weather balloons, 3
clouds or other ezplainable objects has been gonpletely ruled out; |
and that they are at a complete loss to explain this most recent .
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.
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Memo to Mr. A. H. Belmont RE: FLYING SAUCERS
Sfrom V. P. Keay
Colonel Young. advised that Air Intelligence still.feels
that the so-called flying saucers are either optical illusions or
atmospherical phenomena. He pointed out, howeuer, ihal _same
Military officials are seriously considering the possibility of
interplanetary ships.
ACTION:
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October 28, 1952
Mr. Narvel—¥#v Reece, CeT.S.He.
1578 Van Fandt Road
Cincinnati 31, Ohio
Dear Mr. Reece:
I want to thank you Sfor 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, inasmuch as the
natter referred to in your letter ies within the
Jurisdiction of that Depariment.
Sincerely yours,
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Director e 0C.|80 1952
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reference on the name Narvel Woodrowskeece (64-32001-1-135,
encl. page 7). In view of the ififormation contained in 64-32001-1,
it is not believed the reference will be pertinent in this instance.
This action is being token to expedite the Bureau's reply to the
¥ correspondent. File mentioned above concerns name check requests.
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REGORDED-84 ; ’
Date: February 11, 1853
To: Director of Special Investigations
The Inspector General
Department of the Air Force
The Pentagon
Washington 25, D. Ce
From: John Edgar Hoover, Director
, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Subject: FLYING DISCS
NWISCELLANEOUS = INFORMATION CONCERNING
There are attached for your information in
the captioned matter a Photestat of a letter dated
January 20, 1958, received by this Bureau [from
¥r. 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.
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— __ January 27, 1953
¥r. Robert D. Wolf
19 North Forsythe Street
‘ranklin, Indianc
ear Mr. Volf:
Your letter dated Jonuary 20, 1953, has
been received, together with enclosures.
ilthough I would like to be of service
in conneotion with your reguest, I would like to
yoint out that the FBI is striectly a fact-finding
agency and it 18 not within the scope of its
preascribed authority to make evaluations or drow
conclusions 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 inabilidy to be of cssistance to you
tn this regard.
he literature and letter you JSorwarded
/ .~ | are being returned.
¥ Sincerely yours,
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the January 19, 1953 issue of "Space Review'", the publication
of The International 7lying Saucer Bureau, indicating the
address as Post 0ffice Boxr 241, Bridgeport,Connecticut.
This small periodical contains news of various I.F.S.B.
groups throughout the United ©tates and England and news
items relating to flying saucers.
No references can be located in Bufiles on the I.F.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 Jenuary 1953
Mr. J. Edgar Hoover
Director Federal Bureau of Investigation
Weshington, D. C,
Deer 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
. f' 4 sts | in the county.
four« (4) posts here in the countys L -
Lest Fall I was contected by one of our local business men Wenting to kiow if
I would be interested in joining theAInternational 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 wey we can with Civil Defense. The city of
- Frenklin is approximately twenty (20) miles southwest of Indianapolis, on the dual
lene highway U S #31.
)/ I am enclosing e letter which was received last October, as well as the current
! /issue ofSPACE REVIEW. Would like to know if this organization has been cleared or
. { is subversive in any waye.
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 thems
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Indernalional aucer Bureaw
\LBERT K. BENDER INTERNATIONAL
o i “All is possible to one who believes” HEADQUARTERS I
MAX KRENGEL P. O. BOX 241
e ~ BRIDGEPORT 2, CONN.
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* v ! 71 Chedworth Road |
)ctober 26, 1952 Horfield,
INTERNATIONAL Bristol 7, England
COUNCIL ]
ROBERT N. WEBSTER
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Science
ELLIOTT ROCKMORE Mr. Frahm:
“Saucer Revieu ) .
Tl R CRY f ¥y, 1 e TO0 you about
GEORGE D. FAW ur fine work ir elpin ur organization
Lecturer - Saucenana ¥ e 3 . o Sal E
STANLEY E. CROUCH s 4 " A s
e e youzx st le tter you asked what ¢ urse of action
Cudewrs Magayine ar club should take in connection with IF3B8. 1
3 . the following
PRANKLIN M. DIE1 uld 1 t the fgllowings
Edisor and Publishe
“Science - Fantasy and flei) Appoint a local Chairman of the IF in |
Science Fution Franklin, Indiana. \1s0 noint a local
* treasurer and secretary.
1SH REPRESENTATIVE , ‘
BRIT . 1 your meeting t acst ¢t e a month,
Retired Capt. h Army 0 P X L;l or e er
rt n portion the club mem rshi fed
pay oe retained you to hel your cause.
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IFSB and s ' A ch re: ct at l ]
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Indernational Plying Saucer Bureau
ALBERT K. BENDER
i g s P. O. BOX 241
President and Editor “All is possible to one who believes”
BRIDGEPORT 2, CONN
MAX KRENOEL
Vice-Pres. and Treas. U. S. A
ALLAN C. RIEVMAN
Secretary
)1I(
(8), Heport to IFSB all reports and sightings in
r area. However, first put the sightings
b re your group and let them judge whether
trhey are authentic or mot.
(V). A= A record of all ¢ciuv aemOers 1n your area
and their activities as far as 1¥58 in concerned.
(10). n if poscivle (merely a suggestion), a tape
I't rdér so that you can send actual voice to
IFSB hesdquarters. In this way, I as President,
could send messages for you to play at your local
meetings. In the future I may even »ay your city
a visit and attend one of ir meetings.
These are all merely sug ecstior for u to ponder oYer
f you decide to adopt any of them pleace nsult with
ndiana Hepresent: tive, Mr. )ell. After you have
p et in touch with me at nce.
sincerely h that these suzgesti wi hel u
Z ne move a8 to wha U ycal roup wi do,
Forever Looking Up,
! f J«,‘r VAL
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Copyright 1953 by ALBERT K. BENDER
- IFSB OF BRITAIN ORGANIZES RANKLIN, INDIANA JOINS EN MASSE
o L Fiunk 1P} nied v ind ‘
T I'he 1FSB ha all en organized in T'he City Frank Ind go!
M B it ‘l 1 rs )rganizatio gh t
| B Englar f and work Mr. Lou rhr
I v serving his Mr. Rol Wolf vil {efe
Royal Air | t ind Mr. Dick Campbell, IFSB
gh ming the IFSB in the Pranblic Jaith e
I Nu s articles have ap . from nearly towns, giving
i vspapers ough his ! 0 Sinceall ; ¥ his heks
= ure f P w 1 )W ‘“\.. i ecret
f vspaper ,’and flying sa : T u ortal
‘ SHRING v JUR PRESIDENT HEARS FROM
) LUHRING NAMED PROF. EINSTEIN
PUERTO RICAN REPRESENTATIVE ¢ g : 2
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. SPACE REVIEW
.
SAUCERS IN THE NEWS .
MayacUEz, PUERTO RicO, Oct. 3, 1952— WASHINGTON, D.C,, Oct. 16, 1952—The
* Strange objects were sighted by two per- Navy announced that it launched rockets
sons Mayaguez on Oct. 3, they were from giant balloons, high above the Nort!
¢ East and were red in color. It was Geomagnetic Pole, anfsent them to alti
out 10:30 p.m. when they were sighted tudes of about 40 miles. The balloons were <
N o s Carenei Ot 18 AR as tall as & 10-story building.
During October the Norwegian Govern- PARis, FRANCE, Oct. 7, 1952 — A flying 5
nt stated that a strange object resemb- aucer was sighted over Southern France :
ling a saucer landed on Norwegian soil y two Air France pilots.
German experts are claiming that the de- i
i wre of Russian origin, and the des- WESTERN KOREA FRONT, Oct. 29, 1952
iption given by Norway fits the descrip- U.S. troops saw a half-dozen mysterious
given by German experts. Stockholm, park-throwing "“cartwheels” over the wes
yweden, has a been sighting strange ern front of Korea. They were as the eye
objects ces, 18 inches in diameter, moving n a
s-foot circle
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, Sept. 13, 193 15-foot circle
A young woman sighted a noiseles 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 sa melled like a rotter 20 townspeople of Gaillac saw a series of
egg white circular objects, slightly swollen at
: the center, spinning across the sky. they
STUTTGART, ¢ Nov. 1, 1952 vere flying i 'nr'nfinon of twie: il W"z
At the rece g of the third Inte grouped around something that looked
ational Astros al Congress in Ger- like a giant flying cigar. As the objects
| iany where 200 sentists from 12 cos passed overhead they let fall a sort of
m«guhuul they stated that saucers are string of bright white threads, which set- 3
not from Mars or any «)ther planet Y tled gently o es and telephone lines
said they are merely optical and When the people tried to pick them up,
NGRS they melted like ice. A police officer who
NEw York-__A terrilic sir picked up some of the thread said: "It ]
place over a small area of looked like glass wool and it mchf'd away
" N.Y., which broke windows ilmost as soon as it was touched. 0
- valks and caused general OLORON, FRANCE, Oct. 17, 1952—About
Bic..} .I“VUC, s (F;' "“_:1)\‘“'”[“" . « dozen people, including a schoolmaster,
gruled alitial e, : saw flying saucers surrounding a long cigar 5
ERNATIONAL AIRPORT, NEW YORK, like object flying through a clear sky at
it. 16. 1952—A blue flame flashed over ibout 6,000 feet.
" al A"Pu“ f" 7:33 p.m. It was NEw ZEALAND— The clippings and stor-
I-like object. Hayden Planeta B e i i ey :
p A ies from New Zealand are swamping our .
stated it may have been the o g e h g T
f 1 mateor ofhce and “ € so numerous that w nu
£ levote a whole page to them in our April
k. YORK, ENGLAND, Seg 0 ssue ‘
1 During exercise ""Mainbra RAF
pilots sighted a white object a 000 : ]
feet. The object was silver in co and For more detarled information on any
circular. It maintained a slow forward the ab. ease write to IFSB
speed before beginning to descend, swing
g like a pendul It followed the air 4 d
it oft revolved AT BXis! 2t Bines Please date your clippings that you send
' and then took 1o 4 d note the source. X
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SPACE REVIEW 3 4
SUTTON, WEST VIRGINIA MONSTER MAY BE
“COLLIER’S" ROCKET!
Rev. S. L. Daw, Washington, D.C., Represeniative, IFSB
. I have personally photographed flying saucers six times and personally photographed
¢ place where one landed in Charleston, West Virginia. I also talfi:d 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
attempted to photograph one going over Melessa Pass, 5000 féet 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
all, throwing off a white light and after landing, two small men in red emerged from
1 trap in the '(T and climbed up a tree to look around. Seeing people watching them, they
got back ind 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 Eody of the device is
2 jet propelled apparatus which throws off a large mctanha ed disc which throws off a
red « »m the center which when reflected could easily Ee taken for some sort of a
small person. This was described in Collier's magazine of October 11, 1952,
A« ording to the Washington Daily News. the monster seen at Sutton, West Virginia
could be the rocket described in Collier + magazine. The picture on the cover of the maga-
zine shows a sphere-headed, wide-bottomed, tank-bellied rocket craft spewing out burning
hydrazine and nitric acid as it lands hind-end on the moon. The West Virginia people
1 to have seen: "“An object estimated at 10 feet tall, four feet wide at the bottom
e of a man. Two lights flashe om side to side, the machine made a noise
ke gas escaping, a sharp sicker 1s about.” Sounds somewhat the same.
The United States may be expe « +1th something that the public is not aware
of, and it is doing its best to keep ‘he age of rocket ships is just around the
corner
CIVILIAN SAUCER INVESTIGATION OF NEW ZEALAND
CONTACTS IFSB
The Civilian Saucer In of New Zealand was set up in New Zealand on
* October 13, 1952. They pla ¢ or disapprove the existence of saucers. It has no
afhiliation with Governmer wrmed forces, or to any society to which its members
may belong. Most of the me have bee udying flying saucer reports for at least
five years. They represent all sted parts astronomers, scientists, aviators, and the
n n the ¢t. The committee ists of Mr H. H. Fulton, a sergeant in the RIN.Z.A.F.
attached tc gineéring, who 1s President CSI of NZ; Mr. R. ]. Lavaris, a member
of the Territorial Air Force, wt he secret f CSI of NZ; Mr. G. H. Gilmore, avia-
tion engineering inspector; D Lavaris, a sty studying for a science degree; and E. J.
Greager, an astronomer and eng
Aims of tt ymmittee orrespor kindred bodies overseas, and to ulti-
ately find the origin of flying s and th iparison
Mr H. H. Fulton, and Mr. R La seen made members of the International
Council IFSB. We hope to lish lations with this society and get a rep-
s . New Zealand. CSI sent to rge map of New Zealand showing all
L have been sighted w ry of ea ighting. A complete report
nade in our next issue. \ CSI of N Zealand the best of luck
} y will be a success
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4 SPACE REVIEW
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” i
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 Indaes.
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 vas 1 of space to find new worlds, new peoples, and
wew frontiers.
They will be laughed at, they will be ridiculed, and the whole thing will be called
the greatest "“fol on earth, but will & be such? Time has proven that 1mpossih1lmcs
become realities,- the automobile, the airplane, radio, telephone, telegraph, television,
and the smashing of the atom are definste 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 wscinated most people or th. One need not be o
ynomer to gaze in awe at th t which unfolds befo eyes as we gaze sky-
any clear night
vastness of space is difh » explain, even for astronomers. When distances
n of it is simpler for learne ien to use the term “light years” than miles. The
f celestial bodies suspended in space like our own earth are unknown. The
it from millions on up. But they remain just that—guesses.
vho make our home on a cinder of matter in the eyes of space, cannot be
12 gh to think that intelligent life exists only here. Those who believe that there
s for everything which happens, should agree that these millions of bodies in
St 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, Cq U.S.A. Send all news and articles to this address
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SPACE REVIEW 5
Alan C. Rievman
Victor Root, Illinois Rep. of IFSB, has Owners of tape recorders or wire re-
. some Science-Fiction mags for sale, or free orders Join T.R.I. (Tape-respondence
2 in exchange. He is sclhng them for a small International. Send your voice to your cor-
fee. Write to IFSB for address. respondents) 3488—22nd St., San Fran-
cisco 10, Calif
s I'he DECEMBER, 1952, issue of FATE
o, o sl orarly ey g BORDERLAND SCIENCES RE-
2 "»”'111*“? : ‘r?";“’_‘:‘lf“_ “é‘ o e SEARCH ASSOCIATES located at 3524
b ‘}’ :"“‘“‘ A"f‘ lfl i “‘?fi; Adams Ave., San Diego 16, California,
BRI A ORUCER compeete G would like to have IFSB members join
of the inaident of the scoutmaster } 5
2 their society
lescribed in our January issue, is discussed
with a picture of the scoutmaster. SUB- ¥
¢ RIBE TO FATE MAGAZINE AND Many new Science Fiction Mags are hit-
KEEP UP TO DATE ON TH! ting the newsstands and some are good
\UCERS W R0E D‘c‘m: Stas Shaas while others are the usual run. A {cw of
i Nios: 11 the better ones are: ']ufw in SF; Science
Fiction Quarterly and Fantastic.
New Pocket Books on Stands: Dell No
627, When W Collide”” by Phili Two good S-F books: “Robots Have No
Wylic and Edwin Balmer. Pocket Hoo{« Tails” by Lewis Padgett and “Player Pi-
No. 908, “"New Tales of Space and Time", ano”’ by Kurt Vonnegut. Both humorous
Raymond ]. Healy line
’ [])““,‘[} "(‘, l;\‘,{, of U‘l’m], r\x’(w ! The officers of IFSB are planning on is-
b hing Co.. 806 Du»rnp)rr: suing a 12-page booklet sometime next
Evanston. llinois. Let's siibscribe year with a complete record on all saucer
: ; ‘ reports that they now have collected. This
NEW BOOK BY VIKING PRESS »ooklet will not be a regular issue of
Across the Space Frontier”, edited by Sr.lu: Review", but a separate issue and
. Cornelius Ryan, $3.95, Viking, New York vill sell for 50c to everyone, Our Presi-
i ient, Mr. Bender, will write the foreword
RANDOM HOUSE HAS DONE IT with comments throughout by officials of
AGAIN WITH: "By Space Shij the IFSB. The bookiet will be entitled: IFSB
Moo written by Jack Coggins and REPORTS ON THE SAUCERS. If inter-
Fletcher Pratt, foreword by Willy Ley. $1 sted, write!
SCIENCE FICTION NEW SSLELTER, We would like members and officers to
by our Council Member, "Bob™ Tucker, 1 : B £ th vessnit
PO. Box 7 Bloamiinctan. Tiliasis send in snapshots of themselves so that
2 P oD vhen the time comes for us to print pic-
THE UNITED STATES ROCKET SO ires in Space Review, we will have the
CIETY, Box 29, Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Ot CYaiEbicy
Fillpwood s eordiing out: with two MENTION “SPACE REVIEW" when
good wies: "War of the Worl and vriting to any of above mentioned pub-
The Conquest of Space ations
SAUCER REVIEW, by Elliott Rock This pag be eliminated in future
more ember of our Council. P.O. Box sues, and will be replaced by articles
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6 SPACE REVIEW
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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. 1 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 iusvpon life, why not other planets in other Solar i
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 sce 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. Al 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. % -Submitted by Representative ALAN RIEVMAN of Connecticut
My theory on the origin of the fying 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 th ¢ atomic explosion they may have changed their
minds
n sure that they are not from Farth because if they were ours it would be impos-
stbl keep it quiet and if they were rom a foreign government they wouldn't be flying -
ove ted 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 “flying saucers” are manned ships controlled and operated by
intelligent creatures who are scouting our w {. 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 m. Some day when we reach out and touch
the planets we may meet them. A ra of elligent creatures other than ourselves, cer-
tainly does exist.
I HEORY NO. 10—Submitted by AN STAZER, Member from California
I think that the "flying sauce 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'!
41/ theories become the property of IFSB and cannot be returned
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e Ce e ) T s ST St Gy ot
HIGHLIGHTS ABOUT REPRESENTATIVES
DICK CAMPBELL, Rep. Indiana~-R?v 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, and
Mr. Jack Moore of that place
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J. RONALI> ALBERT, rep. Ontario, Canada—Will be appointed Representative of
CANADA AT LARGE. Doing a fine job. Would like more Canadians to join club.
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VICTOR ROOT, Rep. IHinois—One of our mast valuable representatives. He has sgent
feparing 2 map of the United States showing the places where saucers have
be He is quite a @et, too; see his peem in this issue. Mr. Root presented the
IFSH s saucer map. We are proud of it We are sorry to say that Mr. Root may
h » California in the near future. It will be very hard to replace such an
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EAF ADDUS, Rep. Kentucky -Obtained two new members for IFSB. One of
Mrs. Glenn C. Fuller, saw a flying saucer. Her report will be in our next
Review”. Mr. Broaddus s spreading the word about IFSB.
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DIA HANAN, Rep. lowa— Obtained 2 new member, and has clippings she in-
tend i in to IFSB
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vAIL SPRAGUE, Rep. Wisconsin—Gail nfiflul(t the cartoonist. She sent in a cartoon
eally maée the International Staff roll off their chairs. She showed the parlor
ome with the front door open, a strange looking creature had walked in the door
; 1g muddy tracks on the floor. Outside can be seen a s;\u(chmrkud on the lawn. A
housewife approaches the creature and this is what she says: "I don't care where you're
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
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ALLAN LEVINSKY, Rep. Maine-—Claims that very few people are seeing saucers in
* Mane. Is doing his best to get people interested in IFSB.
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ROBERT R. RITTER, Rep. Tennessee-—Chalks up another member for IFSB.
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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.
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S L DAW. Rep. Washington, D.C.—We are happy to have for our representative in
Washington, D.C,, the first member of the clergy, Reverend Daw. Mr. Daw as he prefers
to be called by club members, is d nng great work for IFSB. We are anxiously awaiting
to see his actual photos of saucers, that he took himself
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RONALD KINNEAR, Rep. New York—Took upon himnself to advertise in his own
statc and had 50 post cards printed and plans to mail them out, in his state.
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' re nol getting any reports from s f our Repre tatives. It is absolutely
1€ at we hear from you, pleaie de ur best 1o get those monthly reports roll-
myg ) "€
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DIRECTORY OF REPRESENTATIVES
The following are additional represemtative;s since owr last publication.
BRITISH REPRESENTATIVE—Edgar L. Plunkett, 71 Chedworth Rd., Horfield, Bristol
7, England; Assistant Representative for Britain--Denis Plunkett g
PUERTO RICAN REPRESENTATIVE—Luis Luhring, Box 23, Punta Santiago H
COLORADO—Verna M. Hampton, 4245 Alcott St., Denver
MAINE-—Allan Levinsky, 59 Atlantic St., Portland e
MISSOURI-—Ralph Hetzel, 6 Scarsdale, St. Louss 17
NEW JERSEY—August C. Roberts, 443 Ogden Ave., Jersey City
NORTH CAROLINA—David T. Benton, Bax 130, E.C.C., Greenville
OHIO—Robert € Schnelle, Sr., 714 McMakn Ave., Cincinnati
OREGON—G. L McColly, 524 Jersey St., Siverton -
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA—Rev. S L. Daw, 5119--7th St., N.W., Washington
WEST VIRGINIA-—Gray Barker. Box 981, Clarksburg
tbove names will not be pubi d agan. Additional names i future issues
Anyone that wishes to correspoma with other members will please send us 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 permisiion from
them.
LET’'S LOOK AT THE MAGAZINES .
READERS DIGEST FOR JULY -Two articles “Have We Visitors from Space,”
and "Flying Saucers—New in Nasse Only.”
RUE MAGAZINE, SEPT 195 The Flying Saucers and the Mysterious Little Men."”
OCT. 1952—""We Flew Above Flying Saucers.”
1952—""What Radar Tells About Flying Saucers ¢
{AGAZINE, OCT. 20, 1952—""Moonbound,” Page 18
ER'S, OCT. 18, 1952 Man on the Moon.’
W °T. 25, 1952—"More About Man or Moon."” &
PIC. MAGAZINE, NOV. 1952—"How D ers Fly?”
SIR MAGAZINE, DEC. 1952— "Flying Sa s and the Air Around Us.”
MR. MAGAZINE, JAN. 1953—""1s Washwugton Afraid of Flying Saucers?”
MAN TO MAN MAGAZINE, JAN 1953 Flying Saucers Are Not New.”
THE MYSTERY OF OTHER WORIL.DS REVEALED—A Fawcett Book No. 166. Ex
. A tour star edition— o f the finest to date in lheFul[ line. Cost 75¢. We
a all saucer-minded folk t this magazine. It is only once in a great while
th publisher puts ou ne publication. Contains news of Space Travel;
I & Saucers; and Rocke pment
These magazines are in 1} LIBRARY as part of our collection. We will send
written mformation to anyone have questions on above magazines.
Coming in Aj SPACE REVIEW SAUCERITIS"” by John Armitage of England
An article tt vill make you really THINK!
] A COMPLETE LISTING OF ALL OF OUR OFFICERS AND COUNCIL MEMBERS
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SPACE REVIEW 9
TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE LF.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
- juote 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-
A eries notably the dreaded atom bomb, and also has had to discard in many cases pre-
1sly held convictions such as that “matter is indestructible”.
Even the average layman today, due to increased educational facilities, and access to
rature of all kmdgs, has a very good idea that life in all its forms consists of “energy”’,
ind that this energy somehow links back to somw form of pulsating orbital structure like
into the universe, but on an infinitesimally smalles scale. Therefore, it is—to me at least—
juite believable that it 1s possible that somewhere —something—someone—has solved the
Idle of this energy, etheric, electromagnetic, call it what you will. Having progressed
ur, it follows that given elements capable of withstanding immense stresses and strains,
propulsion of what has become known as the “Flying Saucer’” becomes a possibility.
known that between the Sun, Moon, and our Earth, and presumably between other
r-planctary and possibly interstellar bodies there exists magnetic lines of force, thus
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 specd of lght, and probably very much faster. It
would lso account for the capability of these so-called “saucers” to accomplish ught-an{lcd
asmuch that these known magnetic waves emanate in all directions. Therefore,
soint of view of the average thinking man in the street, I say, "I believe the
flying saucer does exist, and that the coming years will vindicate such men as Captain
: Mantell, Kenneth Arnold, and countless other promeers in this field.” Ia conclusion, may
I say to all IFSB members at home and abroad, “carry on the good work, and above all,
fo not be disappointed, discouraged or deluded by the jeers and sncers of the ignorant
so-called majority.”
The best of everything for the New Year ahead '
: Yours fraternally, E. L. PLUNKETT
MYSTERIOUS CRAFT OUT THERE
by Gail Sprague
Out of the dark, mysterious, depths of by Victor Root
3 space,
Came strange looking craft at a tre Out in space lies my destiny
dous pace Out there, beyond the clouds;
T'h course was true, the third plane Where winds have not yet blown,
from the sun ‘ Where man has not yet gone
Their »r‘«(tny‘ Don't return until your task That's where I long to roam
Down they descended; some got out
B & in 24 hours” the commande Out in space lies my destiny
old the scout. Out there, among the star
I'ime went fast, all returned Where night is forever ruling,
Off went the craft, bearing all they'd Wi litude is soothing
learned Th 8 : W
The decision was reached, never again, e
On this small planet they'd ever land C i
Xars, corruption, prejudice and greed, 4 o
Made this the worst of all planets, a To 1appy trip {
agre Out ng th S
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10 SPACE REVIEW !
SAUCER SIGHTINGS BY IFSB MEMBERS
Exclusive! From Franklin, Indiena and Surrounding Towns
SIGHTING NO On the moming of 8, 1952 in the skies to the southeast as
tly over Franklin, Indiana af | three strange objects. Their flight wa :
2 1 by a large number of men of sound mind and chara The following is con 2
piled from a Police report turne by Capt. Lee Sloan, Patrolman Jack W. Moore an
Patroln Kenneth Rund of the Franklin, | a F Department on Monday mc
ng, July 28 52 at 6:00 a.m. These ot vitnessed by policemen, civilian a .
I ties, and vers of the Un State A ifying all proper authorities «
the objec efinite steps were by therwise. The report is as follows
There were three objects, or 8 an the two smaller objects. Th
larger of the three seemed to cast off a w ght. Its pattern of flight seemed
be that of a It seemed lwa keey ack of the two smaller objects
I two s er objects cast off fistinc wn, one being an orange hue
¢ sh color. T s i to be in a dog fight all their
ey executed barr 0f i s ey made turns of 90 degrees and
without los 1 o 1, a la ng up and down as if
A aying th a gian yC he ot ts ms single sorties to the south
to returr st nediately intc w again, joining the other
in a neat ow of turns ps «nd spins. We estimated their height at.approxi-
mately 1 le their spe aried from an estimated 1500 miles per hour to an
estimat per hour 1 W a pair of binoculars it was almost an impos
sibility any exact shape other than that they appeared to be round and flat
as a sa were observed for a pemod of four hours and fifteen minutes. Dawn
ame a «.m. and all stars had gone around 5:00 a m. At 5:03 a.m. it was bright day
light the three objects were still visible. Their color did not change in daylight
At 5 a.m. the larger of the thre ts was joined by the two smaller anes: the smaller %
ts one at a time disappeared » the larger e orange, then the red. After
nvelope the two sma e t mov | e west out of sight. The
e three objects and t A an »f ger took exactly 40 seconds
vere ed by: | o lice Dep p A ry, Ind.: Columbus
Q Pol ensburg Yei North Vernon Police
Way i nd ‘9l
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rie, Minnesota about 2:30 p.m., April |
MPH and when it a led their
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SPACE REVIEW 11
EXCERPTS FROM A SUMMARY OF A FIVE-YEAR
FLYING SAUCER INVESTIGATION
By George D. Fawcett, intenational Council, IFSB
ave just decided to stop investigation that I began a little over five years ago on
I the most fascinating mysteries of modern tumes, that being the well known "g;ing
" r phenomena. Since the summer of 1947 when the first saucer scare broke out in
United States, I have spent much of my time, money and energy seeking a solution
ddle. While carrying on my private investigations I was able to interview several
ers, scientists, pilots and gusded missils xperts, who had sroflcd these saucers
ad been investigating or studying these strange objects. In addition to these
wve talked to many eye-witnesses who had sighted these objects throughout
1 States and have mailed questionnaires out to many others.
bulletins and scrapbooks on the saucers for the past five years, and while
2 I wrote a six-page pnmkmlrt entitled "The Flying Saucer Phenomena”
achers, and classmates. | have ured to several groups in Lynchburg.
interested in this phenomena from the very first, my sighting of an
ke globe which vmcrcd) for four minutes over the Lynchburg Coll%gc ad-
uilding in Lynchburg, Vitginia, on the morning of July 6, 1951, has in-
as interest threefold since then That is ene of my reasons for sro;ping my inves-
ition It’s really too big a job for one person te handle. We must realize that we are i
th a phenomena that is as fantastic as it s fascinating. Many of the reports that
ble to gather in my collection tend to back this statement
S recent thoughts about the “flysg saucers” are thatf{wrhap‘ there will be some
. ndings soon. This doesn’t scem too ved ia that these flying saucers are still being
1 everywhere, for longer periods o and in groups instead of alone, as well as
ore reports of huge saucer or rocket sh Then, too, they seem to come and go at will,
erhaps being stationed as satellites themse
| that our gover ust kr omething about these saucers because in my
: p this very momer { 'Cd s ( rnment 1s «Jrr)mg on an C(iu(flficnfll
p garding interplan avel ar «ouantry. Perhaps space ships from other
e already here! At a whether y are trying prevent religious con-
roversy or panic or for any othe s which they mught have, our government is still
¢ g, denying, suppressing ating reports at inte s for some reason.
gardless, the future will tell! In closing, I'd like to use a favorite phrase of Charlie
Lynchburg College student who said, “things are really looking up.” I wonder
ings aren’t looking DOWN, too; Sooner or later we're bound to find out, and
say is, "'the sooner, the better.’
EDITOR’'S NOTE: Mr. Fawcett's discussions and opinions will be found in future
f Space Review
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WE WANT YOU TO MEET
EDGAR L. PLUNKETT, BRITISH REPRESENTATIVE—Bom at Bristol, Glos.,
England, on December 26, 1903. Covered st parts of the world as a radio operator at
sea from 1922 to 1936, including the U S A, notably New York, Boston, K:ltimore.
Norfolk, Newport News, Tampa, Mobile. snd many other ports. Has many interesting ¢
memories of the prohibition days, the gangater era, Jack Rmpscy. Babe Ruth, Lou
Gehrig and other notable highlighes. Has wiked for many years for Anglo-American
friendship and still corresponds with friends hess in U.S.A. Was called to service in 1939
Was rescued from Dunknr{: Beaches by the Fressch Destroyer L’Incomprise on June 1, 1940
Went to Middle East in 1941, and served thyvgh three Western Desert Campaigns with |
the British 8th Army. After fall of Tum#h wus commissioned in Palestine and was then
posted in Egypt. Returned to England at i w#d of the war after four and a half years
service overseas as a Captain. Now emplosed by his original firm as a clerk
He has a wife and three children, the ages are Denis 21, now with the RAF, Diana
18, and Michael 14. Hobbies are writing wnd reading and other journalistic yearnings ]
including poetry, plus an unabated desirg 4 savel. Since the formation of Civil Defense
a year or so ago, he has become a qualified instructor and lectures three evenings weekly
to industrial personnel.
Mr. Plunkett has shown ?rcn intess in IFSB activities and will without a doubt
prove to be our most valuable foreign nepessentative
Assocate Eprror
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Date: February 17, 1953
To: Director, FBI
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Subject: ~ MFLYING SAUCERS" f 2N
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/ Major E. P. Walkers, Provo Marshall at the U. S. Air Force
Base at Mildenhall, England, telephonically contacted writer on
February 1L, 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 19L6. 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.
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RECORDEY 'étztc: March 6, 1953
To: Director of Special Investigations
The Inspector General
120 Department of the Air Force
A e The Pentagon
Washington 25, D. Ce
From;: John Edgar Hoover, Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Subject: FLYING SAUCERS
The following infermation has been received by
this Bureau from its representative in London, England, con-
cerning the captioned matter:
Major E. P. Walkers, Provost Marshal,
U. S. Atr Force Base, Mildenhall, England,
telephonically condacted 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 dut he knew of an
incident that took place several years ago which
this Bureau might desire to check.
This incident, according to Major Wal kers,
concerns an article or story on "flying saucers”
which appeared in ¢ small newspaper with limited
circulation located at 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 3in oné of the early 1547
issues or in one of the tssues during the last three -
months of 1946. It was written by a member of the ? s
Tolsda U. S. Armed Forces and of gignificance is the fact .Q” .
Ladd - that subsequent issues failed to follow it up by ~ » .5 &
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carrying additional stories on "flying saucers."”
' Also significant is the fact that it appeared in
@ small and practically unknown newspaper.
Major Walkers states he is merely reporting
thia for what it may be worth.
The above data ta being furnished to you Jfor
your information and any action you desire to take in connection
therewi th, inasmuch as this Bureau is not conducting any in-
vestigations relating to the captioned matter.
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Ofiice Memwndzim e UNITED S%TES GOVERNMENT
T0 1 Ae H. Belmontjj¥ paTR: March 10, 1953
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JOHN BAILEY, INFORMANT Vi =
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John\gailey called from Bowie, Maryland, at S
9:05 P.M.s 3/9/5%, to advise that he had just seen a | AN
flying saucer neaN that citye He was vague as to
details and nonresponsive as to where he was calling
Sfrom and as to his residences When asked where he
planned to stay tonight, at least, in order that
Air Force might interview him if deemed advisable,
Pailey said the writer wanted to know too much and
disconnecteds 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 recordse
Recommendation:
File.
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Date: March 12, 1953 ..
Tos Director of Special Investigations 7,0 ',fl
The Inspector General 9
Department of the Air Force [HY“
The Pentagon
Washington 25, D. C.
Froms John Edgar Hoover, Director :
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Subject: FLYING SAUCERS
At 9:05 p.me on March 9, 1953, an individual giving his
name as John Bailey telephamically contacted this Bureau and advised
he had just seen a flying saucer near Bowie, Maryland. WNr. Bailey
was vague as to any details in this matter and would not furnish amy
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 lr. Bailey.
The above is being fumished to you for your information and
agsistance in the captioned matter. No investigation is being conducted
by this Bureau concerning this matter.
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TRANSLATION FROM SPANISH
Valparaiso, March L, 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) T had the opportunity to read in a "Chilean" police magazine, in
the section entitled, "Perfect Escapes," the escape of Dr. LINKE
. (42 years old, widower, who some\time in 1950, in London, was arrested
on the 8th floor of the Building of Departments (?). The reason for
. . his detention was his possible collaboration with VLADIMIR VLASAV in
. ndivulging to foreign govermments English aviation secrets".)
: In his attempt to get away, which occurred between L 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.
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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
g 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 newspger 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 1t 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)7
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 scientifiec
explanation, but the "strange force," about which our ancestors have not
spoken to us in history, we cannot deny.
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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.
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Dear Mr. Proncoso:
I want to take this opportunity to thank
you for your letter of March 4, 1953.
The interest which prompted you to make
your observatiions available to me is sincerely ap=
preciated. Since your communication may be of ine-
terest to another governmentgl 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, Weshington 25, D. C.
Sincerely yours,
John Edgar Hoover
Director
cec=Foreign Liaisa@ Desk, with copy of incoming.
copy by form, Secfistary of the Air Force.
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TOp: DIRECTOR, FBI paTE: 4/28/53
M : SAC, SAN JUAN ,\'6_;—'330)
SUBJECT: JNIDENTY ST/‘A/JAJ NG .OBJECT OBSERVED
11:30 AM, APRIL. 8, 19533<FORT
BUCHANAN, PUER® RICO:
On 4/27/53 a report was received from lMajor BRADFORD P. SHUMAN,
Wing Intelligence Officer, Ramey Air Force Base, Puerto Rico.
The substence of this report is as follows:
Five persons observed an unidentified flying object at 11:30
AM on 4/8/53 at Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico. Statements were
teken from all of the witnesses, among whom were three Captains
and a Sergeant of the U. S. Army, as well as a civilien. They
described the object as e bright star or a bright ball of fire
at a great height, and it was moving repidly et the time it was
observed.
A1l of the witnesses observed one RB 36 aircraft which had been
flying in the area at the time of the sighting of this unidenti-
fied object. The Wing Intelligence Officer reported thet there
were two RB 30 aircraft in the erea at this time. These sircraft
were reported to be flying at 12,000 end 21,000 feet respectively.
None of the persons from whom stetements were teken were able to
accurately describe the object, other than by the statements set
forth above.
This matter is being reported to the Bureau for jnfcr'mti:;n
purposes.
CLOSED.
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ay 14, 1953
¥re, Robert H, Pavisson
26 Olcott Street
atertown, Massachusetts
)ear rs. cvisson:
I have received your letter of May 9, 1953,
and I want to thank you for making the information
contained in pour letter available to me.
Inasmuch as the information contained in your
letter comes within the jurisdiction of the Depariment
of the Air Force, I have furnished a copy of your
letter to that Depariment for appropriate attention,
fincerely yours,
John lgar yover -
Director
cc - 1 - Boston (FOR INFORMATION)
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Date: May 14, 1953 \
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V‘l‘;“ P To: Director of Special Investigations 1 l—f)
\DE The Inspector General q‘
Department of the Air Force ‘w/
The Pentagon
ashington 25, D. C.
From: John Edgar Hoover; Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Subject: FLYING SAUCERS
There is attached for your information and assistence
in this matter a copy of a self-explanatory letter dated May 9, 1953,
received by this Bursau from Mrs. Robert H, Davisson, 26 OUleott Street,
Watertown, Massachusetts, Nrs. Davisson's letter has been acknowledged
by this Buresu 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 -
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‘regident
‘rand Hotel
Mackinac Island, Michigen
Dear Mr. Woodfill:
Your letter of June 30, 1253, has been
received in Mr. Hoover's absence Jrom the eity, and
I an taking the liberty of acknowledging its receipt.
Your communication will be brought to Ris
attention prompitly following his return to Washington.
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O\ e S o Helen V. Gandy
¢ ) ecretary
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cc-Detroit, with cop;Lo»f{zn&g)zng.
cc-Cincinnati, with cogy"of incoming.
ATTENTION SAC: You are instructed to thoroughly
check your files in an effort to determine wheth&r '
or not the Mr. Stevenson referred to by correspof@engt
has been interviewed by an Agent of yourieffice. mYou
should also furnish the Bureau any information Whicho
might assist in clarifying the story set forth by w
joodfill. Sulet results no later than July 16‘,?’]19_53:0
under caption "Mr. W. S. Woodfill, President, Grand ==
Hotel, Mackinac Island, Michigan, Research (Crime % b } 4
Records).” 'l / 7‘4‘ V2,
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NOTE: Although inquiries regarding such pnefigme?j’_a < W nl)
Tolson —— are being handled by the Air Force at this presemt =\ v\
e vl time, it is believed desirable to check the sourfemiZ |
L of this rumor and following receipt of reply“Proam ;i
iyt 220 Cincinnati, refer correspondent'd inquiry to%he Air2Force.
SR In 1939 and again in 1940: Hoodfill invited the DIrecdor
Tt to attend the Michigan Hotel Convention, and-both inijitations
Mohe were declined. An informant neported that ignl925 g
Tete: Roon gambling on Mackinac Lsland-gs.Teserved for the Grand
ey Hotel, | oMWV :
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Two years ago respected farmer living near Circleville saw lighted object
in the community, and about one year /ago the story appeared in the Circleville
’ Since then he is presumed to have been consulted with representetives of the
Q representatives came to consult with him sgeine This time they brouchtpictures
) have been apprehended by the govermnment from time to time, and the farmer was
| ticular flying saucer he identified is the type that is known to have been flown
| down from the planet Mars, and that gimiler ships have bee captured, and that
| was taken from one of these things from Mars. This Martien it is understood is
much more advanced than our own civiliationesse and that thie account has general
knowledge as reported here in that community.
I understand that the farmer is ¢ fft‘/?‘%,f,‘:‘v'l)]w»-.f»r, that he is held in very high
repute in thg community, prosperous, conservative end of presumed sound mind.
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I cen only believe that the account is a lot of nonsense, insofar as the FeBeI.
telling the farmer that the govermment has captured several "flying saucers",
and that they are from Mars, end that a Martian is beine held captive in Californiae
| It would be apparent to me that if the government did have such knowledge, they
l would not confide such informetion to the farmer, -- and moreover that it is too
| utterly fentastic to credit with recognition as true. The farmer no doubt saw
a "Plying saucer", e 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
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!\ place in outer spacee
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 storye I should like to
set my relative there straights And I am curious personally to know what the real
story is ebout this farmer - Mr. Stevenson of the Circleville, Ohio area.
Respectfully yours,
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Pregident
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FBI-ATLANTA 7-8-53 11-0-2 AM JB ALBE .
DIRECTOR, FBI U R GEN T Myl Lfififi\_‘lfl o <?'
FLYING ‘SAUCERS, MR, TOM MCRAE, - ATLANTA CONSTITUTION- REPOMTER,
{ COMPLAINANT., THREE FORTYFIVE AM THIS DATE MCRAE TELEPHONICALLY FURNISHE
FOLLOWING -FANTASTIC TALE - ASSURING THAT NEITHER HE NOR ANY MEMBER
| OF -BCONSTITUTION- STAFF HAD BEEN DRINKING BUT HAD WITNESSED THIS
i 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
j STATING HE ANDTWO OTHER COMPANIONS WHILE TRAVELING IN CAR ON BANK-
| HEAD HIGHWAY ABOUT MABLETON, GA, ENCOUNTERED THREE SMALL ANIMALS WHICH
THEY BELIEVED HAD LANDED FROM SOME PLACE IN FLYING SAUCER. WATERS
| INFORMED MCRAE THAT AS THEY APPROACHED THE THREE OBJECTS SSTARTING
.| 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
i MEASURED AND FOUND TO BE APPROXIMATELY TWENTYONE INCHES LONG, HAD
| RATHER POINTED HEAD, LARGE EARS AND SKIN WAS PINKISH. DUE TO
% EARLY MORNING HOUR MGRAS UNABLE TO LOCATE SQIENI%§¥’j9 EXAMINE
| ANIMAL BUT DID HAVE ONE OF ngfilnc VETERINARIANS TAIS CITY EXAMINE IT.
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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 STATH
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 VATERS. 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
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N FLYING SAUCERS, MR, TOM MCRAE, - ATLANTA CONSTITUTION- REPORTER,
g 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 PEACHTRE
\ RD, NE, TELE ELGIN NINE FIVE SIX TWO, CALLED ON HIM AT NEWSPAPER OFFICE
f? STATING HE ANDTWO OTHER COMPANIONS WHILE TRAVELING IN CAR ON BANK-
N HEAD HIGHWAY ABOUT MABLETON, GA, ENCOUNTERED THREE SMALL ANIMALS WHICH
1 THEY BELIEVED HAD LANDED FROM SOME PLACE IN FLYING SAUCER. WATERS
R INFORMED MCRAE THAT AS THEY APPROACHED THE THREE OBJECTS SSTARTING
N MAKING THEIR WAY BACK TO WHAT HE BELIEVED A FLYINC SAUCER, THAT TWC
j OF THE ANIMALS ESCAPED IN SAUCER BUT THIRD WAS KILLED WHEN HIT BY THEI
\; AUTOMOBILE, WATERS DISPLAYED OBJECT OR ANIMAL TO MCRAE AT NEWSPAPER
\ OFFICE, MCRAE STATED ANIMAL DID NOT RESEMBLE ANYTHING HE HAD EVE
i SEEN BEFORE BUT LOOKED AS IF IT BELONGED TO MONKEY FAMILY. ANIMAL
&\ MEASURED AND FOUND TO BE APPROXIMATELY TWENTYONE INCHES LONG, HAD
L\ RATHER POINTED HEAD, LARGE EARS AND SKIN WAS PINKISHe DUE TO
EARLY MORNING HOUR MCRAE UNABLE TO LOCATE SCIENTIST TO EXAMINE
ANIMAL BUT DID HAVE ONE OF LEADING VETERINARIANS THIS CITY EXAMINE IT.
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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 MAD HAD A TAIL BUT SAME WAS MISSING AND WHEN
QUESTIONING WATERS ABOUT SAME WATERS SEEMED SOWETH&I}SURPMI”E“ BUT STATI
IT WAS POSSIBLY CUT OFF IN ACCIDENT, MCRAE ADVISED ;VLRE WAS BLOOD
AROUND MOUTH OF ANIMAL CAUSED BY ACCIDENT WHICH RESEMBLED HUMAN BLOOD
MCRAE FIRST THOUVHT WATERS POSSIBLY TRYING TO PULL PUBLICITY GAG DUE P
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
)AFTZfl MIDNIGHTs MCRAE STATED NEWSPAPER WOULD POSSIBLY RUN STORY ON
ga;cv; FACTS TODAY, ATLANTA INDICES NEGATIVE ON WATERS., ABOVE
FURNISHED IN VIEVW OF POSSIBLE PUBLICITY THIS DATE, NO INVESTIGATION
BEING CONDUCTED THIS OFFICE UCABs MATTER REFERRED TO 0SI OFFICE NINE ‘
AF_E7T 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
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A ; monkey.
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Washington Daily News 7/9/53
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ATLANTA-~TWO BARBERS AND A BUTCHER PRODUCED A 231~INCHM LONG "CREATURE"
TODAY TO BACK UP THMEIR TALE THAT THEY HAD SEEN A FLYING SAUCER AND THRE
ELUSIVE LITTLE MEN AFTER CONSUMING ONE BEER APIECE, |
AN AMATOMY PROFESSOR SAID, WOWEVER, THAT THE CORPSE THE EARTH MEN
SUSPECTED WAS FROM OUTER SPACE APPEARED TO BE A MONKEY.
THE MEN WERE CONVINCED IT WAS FROM OUT OF THIS WORLD, THEY SAID
THEY RAN INTO IT WITH THEIR AUTOMORILE WMILE DRIVING ON A MIGHWAY NEAR
HERE LAST NIGHT,
"RIGHT THERE IN TNE MIDDLE OF THE HIGHWAY WAS THIS THING, GLOWING
RED ALL OVER,” SAID EDWARD WATTERS, 28~-YEAR~OLD BARBER,. IT LOOKED
LIKE A FLYINE SAUCER PICTURE HE MAD SEEN IN A SCIENCE MAGAZINE, WE SAID,
"THREE LITTLE WEN VERE RUNNING FOR IT,* WATTERS CONTINUED, “THEY
ALL JUMPED, TWD OF TMEM MADE IT, I WIT THE OTHER ONE,."
WATTERS SAID THE MACHINE SOON ROSE INTO THE AIR AND ZDOMED AWAY,
?EESQLDDXT WAS NOT MORE THAN WAIST MWIGH AND ABOUT WALF AS WIDE AS
HE ROAD, 1
WATTERS® COMPANIONS, ARNOLD PAYNE, A BUTCHER, AND THOWAS WILSON, A
BARBER, TOLD THE SAME STORY, WATTERS SAID THE INCIDENT OCCURRED ABOUT
MIDNIGAT AFTER TNEY HAD CONSUMED ONE BEER APIECE,
DR, W, A, MICKLE, ANATOMY PROFESSOR AT EMROY UNIVERSITY, EXAMINED
THE ANIMAL, WHICH MAD BECOME A VICTIM OF AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT,
MICKLE SAID IT LOOKED LIKE A MEMBER OF THE RMESUS MONKEY FAMILY,®
ALTHOUGH IT MAD NO MAIR,
C,o1D IT'S A CREATURE FROW OUTER SPACE, THEY MAVEN'T INVENTED ANYTHING
\ NEWS,* s .
\\’\ §§T§E§S DECIDED 'TO FREEZE THE THING WITH DRY ICE AND PUT 1T, g;“ !r
ON S Yo ' ) v, \ ,
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DATZE: July 10, 1853
EX 103 T0s pirector of Special Inuvestigations
The Inspector Genercl
spartment o the Air Torce
The itagon
eshington 25, D, Ce
FRONM: John Edgaer Hoower, Director
edercl Bureau of Investigation
BJECT: FLYING SAICER
The following informGtion was furnished to the
Atlanta Tield Office of this Burecu at 3:40 4,¥.. 0B
July 8, 1953, by Mr, Tom=fiCRGe, itlenta Constitution”
reporter. Mr. McRae statcd Nr. jward I« Voeters, 18355
Peach Tree Rood, Northeast, Atlanta, Georgia, telephone
number rlgin 9562, contaeted him et the office of the
"stlenta Constitution” and advised os follows:
According to Waters, he and itwo other companions,
wvhile trevelling in on outomobile on Bankhead Highway in
the vicinity of Mableton, Georgic, encountered threc small
animals which they believed had landed from @ flying SGuCers
aters advised as he and his companion approached, the three
nimals stoerted moking their way back to what was believed
to be o flying saucer. According to rs, two of the
animels escaped in the flying saucer but the third was
killed when hit by the automobile in which iters and his
< companions were riding.
»! ccording to McRaoe, TYdters displayed the cnimcl
\ ¢ wirich hod been killed to him ot the "itlanta Ccoastitution”
g newspaper office. HcRae staeted the animcl did not rescemblie
Nichols unything he haod ever seen before byt iknplapked as though
Clegg it belonged to the monkey [family. c¢eordihy to McRue, the
L enimal was approrimetely 21 inches loag, hed & rather pointed
T head, lorge ears and pinkish skKihJ ' “MeRge stdted because of
Gearty —_ the early morning hour he was unable Bo!locoie & scientist
ey to eramine the enimcl, but he didchave one&d) the leading
Pt veterinarians of Atlanta, Georgia, exomine it
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McRoe cdvised the veterianarian would not
comnit himselS but the veterinerian pointed out he had
never seen an animal in the monkey family without hair
nor had he ever seen a dead aaimal that did mot turn
pale ¢t death. According to lcRee, the veterinarian
stated the animal's taeil wos missing and that when he
hod guestioned Taoters cbout the missing tGil ¥oters had
seemed somewhat surprised and indicated it had possibly
been cut off in the Gecident. McRGe stated there wis
blood around the mouth of the animcl, which resembled
human blood.
At the time McRee furnished the above informa-
tion to the Atlanta 0ffice of this Bureau, he stcted
neither he nor any menber of the "Atlanta Constitution”
newspaper stoff had been drinking but had witnessed the
cbove. McRae stated he first thought Waters had itried
to pull @ publicity gag in this matter; howeber, it wes
McRae 's opinion if this haod been Waters' motive, Waoters
would have timed his wvisit to the newspaper office better
as the newspaper was unable to print anything on the story
after midnight. McRGe informed the Atlanta O0ffice of this
Bureau the "ZAtlantc Constitution” newspoper would probably
run ¢ story concerning the information set forth chove.
It i8 noted your office was telephonicclly con=
tocted on the morning of July 9, 1953, by 6 Licison rep=
resentative of this Bureau concerning the above mattier.
The above is furnished for your information and no investi=-
goation is being conducted in this metter by this Burecu.
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Mr, W. S. Woodfill
President
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Dear Mr. Woodfill: L
:3\_._\,@. V=" Your letter of June 30, 1953, was brought
to my attention upon my return to the city, end I
want to thank you for meking this informetion cveilable
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. Obviously, therefore, no representative of this
Bureau conducted the interview with Mr. Stevenson which
you describe relative to "flying saucers.”
Sincerely yours, ;
! John Edgar Hoover = o
§ JUL 281953 ! Director & :
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NOTE: Mr. Woodfill's letter of June 30, L-.‘T..";l, stated that
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o farmer named Stevenson of Circleville,» Ohio, ¢had reportedly
seen a flying saucer uand had been subsequentd yrinterviewed
fi on the matter by representative of the FBI3 Mry Woodfill
desired to know if this were true. o
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olson . !
. contoining.c noté FonkSAC, Cincinnati to deterRine the basis
Bl of the rumorlti€incinnati letter of July 15, k853, indicates
P e that Steyvenson. wes 'interviewed on July-l4, J9po8; at that time
L o Stevenson indicdted thdt he hud been ingerZFiewed on the
Tracy —— subject by one Jack M, Grant of Columlus, Ohio, who made the
el statement that he (Graht) had once been 'checked" by the FBI.
et o Cincinnati files peflect no prior interview with the farmer,
Holloman — who 18 Bruceg Stepenson, Rural Route 2, Circleville, Ohio.
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TO . : DIRECTOR, FBI DATE: July 15, 1953
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SUBJECT: MR. W..$#*WOODFILL, President
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, RESEARCH - CRIME RECORDS
ReBulet dated 7-9-53.
Sheriff CHARLES RADCLJFE, Circleville, Pickaway County,
Ohio, advised he is cognizant of AAflying saucer" report made by Mr. BRUCE
STEVENSON, Rural Route 2, Circlevillé, Ohi6. “Ac€cording 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.
Mr, P:(UMEVENSON, 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 wvisited by one
JfiM\IT, who gave his address as Post Office Box 5112, Tri-Village
Stafion, Columbus, Ohio. According to Mr. 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,
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SUBJECT: TNFORMATION REGARDING NEW
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// ALOIS PIVEC - INFORMANT
/ Enclosed herewith are photostats of parts of two 1et{;%rs
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.
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whatever action is deemed appropriate.
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ALOIS PIVEC, OLGA PIVEC and ANDOLPH DORNIG.
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TRANSLATION FROM GERMAN
Item #1
12-21-53
Mr. ALOIS PIWETZ
16l 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 kr. PIWETZ,
be not angry with me because I am now turning to you. I hesitated such
a long time as my wife does not wish to go abroad. Enclosed I am
sending you 2 inventions, that is, ideas and I leave it to your own
power of judgment whether one or both, or none of these inventions
is suitable. If one seems to be profitable to you, you should apply
for a patent in your own name as the best possible way and enter for me
and for yourself L5% 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 cemrades. 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).
LRIEDEIC < A / /
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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 pregressed
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 issafe for flying. Thereby I
am losing, however, some speed, but, in return for it, safety is secured
and this is the main thinge. This machine is so very simple in its
constructien 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 1 to 3 men). Then this machine attains, with an autemobile
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
sterting 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. PIWETZ, 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,
accerding 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.
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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 some firm accepts me for the
construction of the flying machines. But in addition to all that I
need someone wno lives over there and who knows the English language,
and now I am asking you, my dear Mr. PIWETZ,whether youc 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 toek 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 scripte. 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 Aperica, 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 communicatioen very hopefully.
With friendly greetings,
Respectfully,
/s/ ADOLF DORNIG
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Ttem #2
1-21-54
ADOLF 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 wes 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
officiel 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 spproached me at my working place who only pointed
a finger upon me, saying: "You!" When I looked at him; he quickly ran
aways 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
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of Austria, has in its claws hammer and sickle, and when I announced
in 193(?)7 in public that the communist symbols also appear on our
money, the gendarmery arrested me and told me that I was crazy. OSince
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 de not believe,
although I know that the communists have always guarded me very strictly.
Furthermore, I accidentally (relatives) discovered the fundamentals
of Russian atom physics (a law of nature, unknown to America) and,
therefore, since 1933 all my attempts to get into the U, S. A. have
. been frustrated in every respect. I cannot journey to that country.
Since I (relatives) also exactly know the most secret Russian
communications methods (apparatuses) and the system, they are doing their
utmost to prevent me from establishing contact with the U. S. A.
T 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 locaJ). FSS that I can construct the Russian
apparatuses, I received...*
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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 Aireraft 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. g?/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 byrr\%:'s brother,
FRITZ, who resides in Graz, Austria, and who 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., PIVEC stated that the contents of the letter seemed fantastic
to him and that if the letter were not written in such an intelligent manner,
he would have doubted DORNIG'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.
By way of background )/P{Ec 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, 16l Hallstead Street, East Orange,
NJ, appeared at the Newark Office and advised that she was the wife of
ATIOIS 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, i
;3i~ 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. X ond 2 avq
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By way of background, OLGA/ngEC advised that she was born of
German parents in South Russiaand at the time of the German invasion of
Russia, during World War IT, she and her family were resettled in Germany.
After the war, she married ALOIS/BI)VEC and came to the United States with .
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Date: Moy 18, 1954
To: Director of Speetal 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 SAUCERS
MISCELLANEQUS = INFORMATION CONCERNING
¢ There is attached @ copy of & memorandum dated
April 12, 1954, captioned "Adolph Dornig"” which contains
information furnished to the Newark office of this Bureau
by Alois Pivec and his wife, 0lga Pivee, both of
143 Hallstead Street, Eest Orange, New Jersey. There is
also attached o translation from the German language of the
parts of the two lettiers furnished by, Pivee and his wife
to the Newark office.
The files of this Bureau fail to reflect that
any investigation has been conducted by this Bureau of
Adolph Dornig, Alois Pivee, or 0lga Pivec. In view of
the 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.
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NS it is not possible for me to express an opinion
regarding the subject you mentioned since it does
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WS- FBI.
You may desire, however, to communicate
with The Honorable, The Secretary of the Air Force,
The Pentagon, Washington 25, D« Cu, JSfor whatever
inforration he can give yone.
Jincerely yours,
John Edgar Hoover
Director
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Dear 8ir,
The seventh grade of Milton
Are studying about Flying Saucers.
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/ On 6-7-5L, Mr, THOMAS EICKHOFF, 3721 Tappan Avenue, Cincinnati 23,
Ohio, and Mr. RALPH-ZTNNMERMANN, 2768 Highland Avenue, Cincinnati 12, Chio,
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 Zimmermamn 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, 36l West Lewiston Avenue,
Ferndale 20, Michigan., He advised that he telephoniedlly contacted MADAY
on 6~3-54 and MADAY stated that he was only the for renting the
hall and that he was acting on behalf of TR THURUM and GEORGE
HUNT WILLTAMSON., He statedethat on 6-4-5) 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 er WILLIAMSON and indicated that their disagreement only
concerned his placing the ad in the newspaper prior to having the tickets
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Mr, EICKHOFF continued that ten minutes after he had ta%!rced to
MADAY m@h—;h, he received a call from GEORGE TAMSON
and a SPEAKER, who confirmed to him that MADAY was no longer
| associated with them, and who asked that EICKHOFF meet with them at a
v ‘0 luncheon at the Terrace Plaza Hotel on 6-7-5k.
! 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 DONALD E. KEHOE, retired major, U, S. Marine Corps, which book
was published by Harper's Publishers, and a book entitled "Flying
Saucers Have Landed," by GEORGE ADAMSKI, which book is published by
Werner-Lowery Company in England, and is distributed by the British
Book Center in New York City. He said that he has also heard broadcasts
by persons he considers reputable news commentators, such as WALTER
WINCHELL, FULTON LEWIS, JR., and FRANK EDWARDS, to the effect that
reliable persons have reported observing flying discs or saucers., He
said contrary to these reports, the U, S, Air Force has denied the ex-
istence of the flying saucer and he felt that persons such as TRUMAN
BETHURUM and GEORGE HUNT 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
that it should be given as wide a distribution as possible, so that the
people might learn the true facts regarding flying discs. He said,
however, if their story was not true, then the holding of such a
meeting as was contemplated would be a fraud on the general public,
He estimated that such a meeting in Cincinnati might draw two thousand
people, which, at $2.00 apiece, would result in a $4,000,00 take for
the promoters,
To identify TRUMAN BETHURUM, Mr, EICKHOFF had with him two copies
of the magazine "Valor," which he stated he got from BETHURUM, this
magagine being self-identified as the "Golden Times Weekly," published
by Soul Craft Chapels, Post Office Box 192, Noblesville, Indiana. The
two issues which Mr, EICKHOFF had with him were numbers 15 and 16 of
volume 6 of the publication, the number 15 being dated 2-6-5l and
number 16 being dated 2-13-5L, The number 15 issue contained an article
concerning TRUMAN BETHURUM, in which he is identified as a truck driver
from Redondo Beach, California, and it refers to an article dated
12-31-53, which appeared in the "Daily Breeze," a newspaper at Redondo
Beach, California, which allegedly contained a description of an encounter
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which TRUMAN BETHURUM had with a crew of assumed space explorers under
the supervision of a2 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, EICKHCFF 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 l,
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 he
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 0T Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, whom EICKHOFF visited
personally at O'MARATs home in Fairborn, Ohio, on Sunday, 6-6-5L.
ETCKHOFF 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 Cuter
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-
TAMSON,
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 11 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
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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, WILLTAMSON 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 hisi/
plan to inform all the Federal agencies he thought should know about the
activities of BETHURUM. He advised that in line with his contemplated A”
plans that ggfigbawcfiening of 6-7-54 there was to be another meeting at the
home of L. W{/BTRINGFIELD, 7017 Britton Avenue, Cincimnati 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, WILLIAMSON 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 BETHIRUM, 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
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BETHURUM had been on tour for some time and that the meeting scheduled
for Cincinnati originally on 6-11-5l 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 WILLIAMSON,
J. H. STRINGFIELD, and Lt., Col, JOHN O'MARA.
The indices reflect that by letter dated 2-7-52, Indianapolis
file 61-5, the Indianapolis Office advised the Cincinnati Office under the
caption of "Silver Shirt Legion of America, Inc.; Internal Security - X,"
thet the Silver Shirt Legion of America, Inc,, whose leader is WILLIAM
DUDLEY PELIEY, 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 139-1h1 West Fourth St., Cincinnati.
No further action is being taken in this matter by this office,
and the foregoing is for the Bureau's information and for the information
of the Los Angeles and Indianapolis Offices.
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TRUMAN BETHURUM;
, FLYING DISCS
qijL_MISCELLANEOUS = INFORMATION CONCERNING
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Reurlet 6/8/54.
You are instructed to recontact Thomas Eickhoff, referred to
in your referenced letter and advise him this Bureau has no
Jurisdiction concerning the investigation of matters relating
to flying dises 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 Bursau 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 discs 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 mecting re flying discs if it was deemed necessary
by the Government.
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DIRECTOR, FBI 6/8/54
SAC, SEATTLE |
REPORTS ON ALLEGED SIGHTING OF SUBMARINES, \
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/ /7 1t has been the experience of this office that during this season,
from now until winter, there is received a considerable number of alleged O
reports on sighting of submarines, flashing lights, parachute landings, \
flying saucers, etc, In every instance when such reports are received, J
the information is immediately disseminated to DIO, 13 ND, U. S. Navy;
) 0SI, USAF3 and =3, U. S. Army. \
Inasmuch as Seattle is the District Headquarters for the Intelligence N\
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. vl
Many of the reports are of a nebulous type, impossible of corroborating, v
and of doubtful authenticity. Some, by preliminary inquiry and evaluation, A
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 information as obtained. a
This office has no control of the dissemination of these reports H
on a "spot" basis by the local intelligence offices to their Headquarters -3
in Washington, D. C. The Bureau will recall the widespread dissemination >
given by the military agencies of "Radio Message March 13, 1953, Interpreted 5
as Calling for Mobilization of Communist Party" (SAC Letter #23, dated
3/31/53). e,
The purpose of this letter is to advise the Bureau that in all
instances immediate dissemination is made of all umusual 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 occurs unless instructed.
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DIRECTOR, FBI SAC, SEATTLE
RE: REPORTS ON ALLEGED SIGHTING OF SUBMARINES, 6-lé-5h
PARACHUTE LANDINGS, FLASHING LIGHTS, ETC.
ESPIONAGE
08I 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 1s correlated, that the
reports are handled from the Air Force here to that point in a
routine fashion and that 0SI gives no credence whatsoever to it
becauge they have never had any previous experience of any kind
as to anything arising out of the situation.
There 1s attached hereto a copy of @ communication
marked "CONFIDENTIAL" requesting data concerning the situation
as well as several recent publications, some of which are 1issued
by the Air Force itself. It is the opinion of Colonel RAYNOR
that the releases are a poor thing and create mass hysteria, but
he says he has nothing whatsoever to do with the situation.
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L3 pear Mr. Gunderson:
an not in a position, as ¢ matter of policy, to
comment regerding the book you mentioned since it
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55 De Cu, for whatever infermation he can give yor
1long the lines of your inquiries.
ineerely yours,
John Edgar Hoover
Director
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