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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 06

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 129 pages · text by OCR

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.

  • p. 9 …A Radford man, living in the last end section, asked that his time not be used…
  • p. 22 …HECKLER (B) must remain in his circle at all times while his team is defensive. He…
  • p. 24 …According to Miss theory is that the flying discs which have been seen are the explosives…
  • p. 61 …Up to this time little concrete information has been obtained. JEJ:md S.-100-7545 El…
  • p. 129 …The time of his sighting this flying object was about 10 PM and the sun had…
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We live in Maine in the town of Nobleboro, about a mile northwest of省 No 1, on Dawes colta Pond. Yesterday May 14, there was a high light and a shower in the afternoon but it cleared 5U for sunset. There was a moderate southwest Greece at 7:45 P.M. RECORDED 62 62-83894 -1771 of clouds on the horizon, especially to the east were rosy.

I happened at that time

Cases discussed

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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.