Documents / FOIA release
This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section collects 1947 to 1949 correspondence, memoranda and newspaper clippings about flying disc reports. It includes Hoover's replies to citizens, a Maine woman's account of a drifting object judged probably a weather balloon, a Richmond memo on a cigar-shaped object seen over Radford, Virginia on May 12, 1949, clippings on the Chiles and Whitted sighting near Montgomery, a Flyin' Saucer toy promotion, and agent interviews with witnesses in Vermont and a pilot near Bethel, Alaska.
“Project Sign”6 pages
File 95x 62-83894-146 Lab. PC-23142 CO Eo: Project "SIGN" Examination of Soil. Examination requested by: Commanding General, Air Wateriel Command, Wright-Patters XXX AF Base, Dayton, Ohio Attention: JCIAXO-3 Date of reference communication: letter 9/9 Date received: 9/17 Evid. 9/14 Reg.1171535 Examination requested: Micro (Petrographic-Geologic) Examination by: Result of Examination: 9130149 67c Specimens submitted for examination Q1, Sample of soil. Coined of Various sized pebbles, sand & dirt. Most of the larger pieces were examined individually for presence of metal adhering to them. Nothing unusual noted on the pebbles or in the sand & dirt - structure, normal. No indication of extreme heat. The not activa Geiger counter on x-ray spectrometer.
FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 129 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.