SECURITY INFORMATION - CONFIDENTIAL
62-83894
Date: August 11, 1952
To: Director of Special Investigations
The Inspector General
Department of the Air Force
The Pentagon
Washington 25, D. C.
From: John Edgar Hoover - Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Subject: FLYING SAUCERS SEEN NEAR THESSALON LAKE,
ONTARIO, CANADA, JULY 27, 1952
MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING
Dr. R. E. McIndoo, 820 West Walnut Street, Kokomo,
Indiana, on July 30, 1952, advised that on July 27, 1952,
at approximately 10:00 A. M. while fishing in the back
waters of Thessalon Lake, Ontario, Canada, he noticed a
formation of bombing planes, sixteen to twenty in number,
in two groups flying south at a height estimated by him to
be four or five miles.
Dr. McIndoo stated that the planes went over the
lake and suddenly dropped objects, at first thought by him
to be parachutes. He continued that these objects fell
straight for a short time, then suddenly spurted vapor
and at a high rate of speed flew off in a southwesterly
direction.
Dr. McIndoo was unable to identify the nationality
of the planes, but stated that they had twin trails of bluish
smoke. He further stated that the objects which had been
dropped from the planes had single trails of bluish smoke.
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AUG 11 1952
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