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IRECTOR, FBI URGENT

FLYING SAUCERS, SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT, AEC. SECURITY OFFICE OF AEC

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ADVISED THIS DATE. THAT TWO EMPLOYEES OF THE E. I. DU PONT COMPANY Le

SAW A BLUE LIGHT WITH AN ORANGE FRINGE SHAPED LIKE A SAUCER FLY. OVER
THE FOUR HUNDRED AREA OF THE SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT AT APPROXIMATELY
NINE THIRTY PM AUGUST EIGHT, FIFTYTWO. OBJECT FLYING AT A HIGH RATE

OF SPEED AND TRAVELING IN A NORTHEASTERN ragad iootagt a:
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August ll, 1952

‘ Ur, Edmond J.\ane
Lbs Mauston, Wisconsin

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Dear Mr. Kanes % © =~ G2

Your letter dated August 1, 1952, has
been received, and I appreciate the interest which
prompted your bringing your observations to my
attention.

Inasmuch as the matter of the flying

saucers is being investigated by the United States

Atr Force, I am taking the liberty of forwarding a

copy of your letter to the Director of Special Investi ations,

The Inspector éral,i Déparment.cf-thre Air Force,, The Pentagon,
Washington, De Co If you have further observations along

this line, I would suggest that you may wish to com-

municate directly with him.

Sincerely yours,

John Edgar Hoover
Director

Copy by form to Air Force Intelligence. \

NOTE: Special Agent Samuel Hardy, EOD 3-28-25, GS-12,
#8760, assigned to Minneapolis. ro

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New Palestine, Indiana

Dear Mrs. Tygrett:

Your letter dated July 31, 1952, addressed to the
War Department, c/o Federai Bureau of Investi 1tion, has been
received.

Your interest in furnishing your observation in
this regard is appreciated.

In view of the contents of your communication
which also appear to be of interest to the Department of
the Air Force, I have taken the liberty of furnishing
that Agency a copy of your letter.

Sincerely yours,

John Edgar Hoover
Director

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August 13, 1952

Director of Special Investigations
The Inspector General

Department of the Air Force

The Pentagon

Washington 25, De Ce

From: John Edgar Hoover, Director
Federal Bureau of investigation

Subject: FLYING DISKS

There is attached a Photostat of a selfs
explanatory letter dated August 5, 1952, at

Pontiac, Michigan, received by this Bureau from
Mr. W. He. Jennings, 3096 Hazelmary, Zone 17, Pontiac,
Michigan, relating to the captioned matter.

Mr. Jennings’ letter has been acknowledged
and he has been informed that a copy of his letter
has been furnished to your office for appropriate

attention. WNo further action is contemplated in this
matter by this Bureau.

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There is no record identi fiahle wi th JeTinings
in the files of the Bureau

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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 C.

From: John Edgar Hoover, Director
Federal Bureau of investigation
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"| Sudjeet: “FLYING DISKS

There is attached a copy of a self
explanatory letter dated July 31, 1952, received
by this Bureau from Wr. Benedicto Romero, 1647
Park Avenue, New York City, relating to the
captioned matter.

Mr. Romero's letter has been acknowledged (
and he has been informed that a copy of his letter
has been furnished to your o/fice for appropriate
attention. Wo further action is contenplated in
this matter by this Bureau.
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that can be identi fied with Mr. Romero. wo

August , 1952

Director of Spectal Investigations
The Inspector General

Department of the Air Force

The Pentagon

Washington 25, De Ce

From: John Edgar Hoover, Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation

Subject: FLYING DISKS

There ta attached a copy of a self-
explanatory letter dated August 1, 1952, received
by this Bureau from Mrs. Fred Haufe, 606 Walnut
Avenue, Fairmont, West Virginia, relating to

the captioned matter. PD

Mrs. Haufe's letter has been acknowledged
and she has been informed that a copy of her letter
has been furnished to your office for appropriate
attention. Ho further action is contemplated in
this matter by this Bureau.

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Office Memorandum e UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

10 : MR. Re Te HARRO i 4 DATE: August 8, 1952
FROM : C3 F, DOWNING \\)%

RS ee COMMUNICATION WRITTEN

pope ae ER 3A RECEIVED. BY.
- "CINCINNATI ENQUIRER" PERTAINING

TO "FLYING SAUCERS"
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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
so-called "Flying Saucers."

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Attached are 7 copies of a translation of th >: material Wore MWh,
prepared in the Cryptanalysis-Translation Section. ¢ bn

No reply has been made by us to the August 6, 1952, letter from
Cincinnati.

That the Domestic Intelligence Division review the Cincinnati
submission and accompanying Bureau translation, for appropriate handling,
noting particularly a suggestion in the last paragraph of the Cincinnati
letter to consider making this information available to other Governmental
Agencies. As

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Flying Saucer,
@ weapon tested in 19h, which is probably now being produced in
Series, and at this time causes a great stir, is @ V-weapon which
has @ round body similar to a disk having @ diameter of about
48-50 m. On the outer ring it has about 5-50 automatic circular
noguzles which after the ignition of the disk circulate around a
plexiglass sphere in the center in which the measuring and controlling
devices for long-distance steering are located. In the sphere is still
sufficient space for atom bombs. ‘These weapons are in iussian hands
and can have an effective range of 30-35,000 km. ‘The constructor of
Veweapons RIEDEL in Germany stated that it concerns a typical V-weapon
on which he had worked himself. I am sure that the truth is better
than a panic among ignorant people,

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Director, FBI
SAC, San Diego (100-3565)

BORDERLAND SCIENCES , RESEARCH ASSOCIATES

San Diego, California;
MEAD LAYNE - Directors MAX FREEDOM LONG — Director

Reference is made to San Diego letter dated 8-5-52 concerning the
captioned matters
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
organizations
1e Mimeographed letter consisting of four
pages addressed to His Excellency, The
President of the United States.

Mimeographed announcement consisting of

three pages entitled "For Information of
the Public — and the Sake of the Record —

A Synopsis of Important Data".

Enclosure (2)
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WAPSEP 3 1952

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August 22, 1952

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qADEXED 8 Dear Mr. Hoffmeyer:

EX. - 73

Your letter postmarked August 15, 1952,
together with enclosure, has been received, and I
want to thank you for bringing this matter to imy
attention.

Inasmuch as the contents of your comnunt-
catton do not reflect any violation within the
Jjurtadiction of this Bureau, I am unable to comply
with your request.

I am taking the liberty of forwarding a
copy of your letter and your original enclosure to
the Director of Spectal Investigations, The Inspector
veneral, Department of the Air Force, The Pentagon,
Washington 25, D. C., since these matters may be of
interest to that agency.

Sineerely yours,

John Edgar Hoover
Director

Copy of incoming to Dept. of Air Force.

NOTE: In view of correspoddent's) Reifid five to a."steady white
their farm, his letter were is being referred

to: the Ul Air Force. branch thtereshed in nm ers of this types

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Aug 2, 1952

J. Edgar Hoover
Federal bureau of Investigation,
Washington, D. Ce

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, tt looks as tho the clover was burned,
& there are 3 similar patches which are burned in a
triangle form. Last Sunday Morning the Neighbors Wife
got up to get a drink of water & happned to see a steady
white Light circling their farm, but didn't pay any
attention to it. Than Sunday morn. when my uncle went
to get the cows, he saw this stuff shining in the Sun
light. It couldn't of been dropped out of a plane as it
was loose & not in a container & the nearest road is
about a # mile from the pasture & now we are wondering
what it is. So would like to have you analyze it & let
me know.

Sincerely yours,

/s/ Wm Hof fmeyer

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August 20, 1952

26

Mr. John E.}ttang
1413 South Vermont
Los Angeles 6, California

Dear Mr. Lang:

Your letter of August 12, 1952, has been received
and I want you to know that I appreciate the interest
prompting you to bring your observations to my attention.

Inasmuch as the matter to which you refer is of
interest to the United States Air Force authorities, I am
taking the liberty of making a copy of your communication
available to The Honorable, The Secretary of the Air Force,
The Pentagon, Washington 25, C.

Sincerely yours,

John Edgar Hoover
Director

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ector, FBI August 5, 1952
SAC, San Diego

BORDERLAND SCIENCES, RESEARCH ASSOCIATES
Sen Diego, Californias; MEAD LAYNE, Directors
MAX FREEDOM LONG, Director

Ty/view of the current hysteria concerning the
so-called "flying saucers", I thought that the Bureau
might be interested in the following information concern=
ing the captioned organization.

I am transmitting herewith certain literature con=-
cerning the captioned organization which was furnished to
me by FRANCIS OHM, who operates the Businessmens Assurance
Company in San Diego and who has his office in the same
building housing the FBI office.

It is of interest to note that on Friday, August J
1952, at approximately 12:00’noon, FRANCIS OHM asked to se
me urgently, which I did. As a member of the captioned
organization, he advised me that they were having a meeti:
at 1:00 PM the same day, inasmuch as they had been advise
that they had some very important information to discuss. }
He went on to relate that through the means utilized by higy
organization (which the enclosed literature will reflect
borders on the occult), they were able to prognosticate
well in advance the recent earthquake which occurred in
Tehachapi, California. He advised thet they have also
been able to obtain the following informations:

1. That a very severe tidal wave will hit the
Pacific Ocean sometime in the not too remote future and
that most of the Japanese Islends will be washed away
and disappear,

2. That all fishes with scales in Japanese
waters will soon leave these waters for other destina-
tions, in view of the oncoming tidal wave.

3. That this tidal wave will wash away the
Hawaiian Islands.

4. That the West Coast of the United States will
likewise be affected by this tidal wave.

5. That they prognosticated the appearance of
a new island in the Pacific which was published in the

newspapers within the past week,
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Re: BORDERLAND SCIENCES, RESEARCH ASSOCIATES
San Diego, Californias; MEAD LAYNE, Director;
MAX FREEDOM LONG, Director

6. That the flying saucers are not fantasies; that
they are factual and actual; that his associates in the captioned
orgenization have been in conversation with the men operating
the flying saucers, and that they have asked that high officials
of the U. S. Government be informed that they are here on our
planet on a peaceful mission and that they are not on a warlike
mission. However, if the U. S. Government continues to send
planes after these flying saucers and if these planes fire on
the flying saucers, they have disintegrators which they will
utilize and which will disintegrate these plmes completely in
no time flat.

Mr. OHM requested that either I myself attend the i
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 wfortwmately this was very short
notice, that I had another commitment and that our stenographers
were pretty well occupied at that time. He said he would advise

me of anything important that might transpire at the meeting. k
As of August 2, 1952, he has not advised me of anything which
transpired at the meeting. FE

I should like to point out that OHM appears to be
a perfectly sane, sound individuals he operates a very large
insurance business in San Diego, and is convinced in his om
mind of the efficacy of this organization.

No investigation is being conducted concerning this
matter and I do not contemplate attending any meetings of this
orgenization.

August 25, 1952

Mr. Co Si Lhoinskt
Koshkonong, Missouri

Dear Mr. Chotnski:

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
ts of interest to another governmental ayency, I am
taking the liberty of forwarding a copy of your com=-
nintcation to the Director of Special Investigations,
fhe Inspector General, Department of the Air Force,
Lhe Pentagon, Washington 25, De 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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Office Memorandum e¢ UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

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TO: Mr. Ae He afingkd DATE: August 22, 1952
FROM : Ure We Ae Branigan Ih {>

‘ToLeon_
Lada,

SUBJECT: FLYING DISCS aS an

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J Rosen,
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PURPOSE: Harboe
ima Belmont,
To recommend existing instructions to the field

re flying discs be called to the attention of the
field.

BACKGROUND:

A review of communications received from the
fteld indicates they are not observing existing
instructions contained in Bureau Bulletin #57, para=
graph D, dated 10/1/47, and SAC Letter #38, dated
3/25/49, to refer details of complaints regarding
flying saucers to OSI locally.

ACTION:

It is recommended the attached SAC Letter
be issued.

EHU: Reema sy

71 SEP 101952,

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por Memorandum + ouxxvrep STATES GOVERNMENT
On fis 2 JAW: rea DATE: ~~ August 18, 1952

FROM ; BRAN.
suBJECT: - FLYING DISCS
PURPOSE:

To advise all Supervisors engaged on night
duty of instructions concerning the referral of
flying dise information to OSI.

BACKGROUND:

Captain William Deegan, OSI, 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
ts greatly concerned about the captioned matter, and
would appreciate the Bureau's cooperation in immediately
advising of details received concerning such compldints.

ACTION:

It is recommended a copy of this memorandum
be filed in the night and week-end Supervisor's book 4,
\tn your office for their information. D

EHM :drg \} ‘

(c) CPLYING DISCS -- Reference is made to Bureau Bulletin #57,
Paragraph D, dated October 1, 1947, and SAC Letter 38, dated
March 25, 1949, in the captioned matter,

It is noted that some Bureau field offices are not fur-
nishing to OSI locally complaints regarding flying 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 OSI locally by your office, As you are aware, the in-
vestigation of so-called flying discs is the responsibility of the
Department of the Air Force,

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i Office Mem wndum * UNITED SIArTES GOVERNMENT

To: ur. HARBO [\& pate: August 29, 1952
FROM : D. J. PARSON, as
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SUBJECT: UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT pagar
ALLEGEDLY CITED BY MR. D. SXDESVERGERS, (ee
WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA Mi as

Rosen:

By letter of August 26, 1952, the Air Force requested
that we examine the cap of Mr. Desvergers, a scoutmaster
at West Palm Beach, Florida, who claims that he observed a, {¢
unidentified flying object in a desolate area, He report debs aes
that upon his investigation, a MBB object 30 feet in diam tees Z
hovered over his head and shot a "red blob” which causedrhim™
lose consciousness. The cap has some holes burned in it and
is reported that the hair on Desvergers' arms was singed, The
Air Force requested that we determine, if possible, from any
residues left the nature of the residual material.

The Air Force desires an oral report on this tonight.
We have finished the eraminatton and are preparing to advise the
Air Force as follows:

1. There is no residue which would permit a determination
as to the nature of the material which caused the burns in the
cap. In addition to the 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 not uniform as would be expected
if it had been caused at one time by a single flash of flame, The
front edge of the cap bill is more severely singed than other
portions of the cap. This condition would not be expected if the
source of the flame was directly overhead. vw,

3. When the cap is observed from the front,the left A
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
jof the Air Force, it is recommended that he be

j orally advised of the above. >
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Mr, Rog’ flwell
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Dear ry 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,

Sinee the contents of your communication
may be of interest, to other governmental agencies,
I am taking the liberty of forwarding copies of it

to the Administrator of Civtl Aeronauttes, Civil

Aeronautics Administration, Department of Commerce,
Washington, D, C.ey and to The Honorable,
of Defense, The Pentagon, Washington, D. C,

The Secretary

Sineerely yours,

j8 Q3AI9984

John fdgar Hoover
Director
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Office Memorandum ° UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

To: Mr. A. H. Belfi se ; DATE: September 20, 1952
FROM : Cc. E. Hennes ‘ mie

SUBJECT: STRANGE WHITE OBJECT SEEN OVER YU
4 MONTANA ON mts MBER 19, 1952 \
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Fp’
I talked woth ASAC_ Plaxico of Butte on September 20,
re the attached“news releases indicating that the FBI
was investigating a strange white object which reportedly
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
Rone was contemplated.

ACTION:

For your information.
Attachment
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600i 6 1959

STANDARD FORM NO. 64

Pines

DIRECTOR, FBI BATE! 10/3 /52

SAC, NEWARK (1000-36998)

RE: SPECIAL INQUIRY
UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL OBJECTS;
Inspector General, USAF ns
2nd District Office of epecial Investigations

67 Broad Street
Now York Y New York: Flying EF eK

For the information of the Bureau, on August 2 P1952,
the Newark division received a request from the Inspector General,
United States Air Force, 2nd District Office of Svecial Investi-
gations, 67 Broad Street, New York 4, New \York, that the back-
ground of a civilian photographer, JOHN RAZRILEY, 571 Main Street,
Paterson, N. J., and of GEORGE J.psOCK, 221 Brooks Avenue, Passaic,
N. Je, be investigated in an attempt to Eagan their reliability
in view of the fact that they had alls ly observed and photo-
grephed an unidentified aerial object eats Saty 31, 1952.

_

The appropriate credit and criminal checks were made in
this mayer as well as discreet netepee 200° inaguiries as to both
individuals,and no Cer oe was received that either individual
had criminal records or that they were known in the past to have

perpetrated any kind of fraud.

it was ascertained that STOCK did photograph an allegedly
unidentified aerial object and that RILEY witnessed the incident
and develoved and printed the exposed film which y subsequently
forwarded to the 5th OSI District, Air Technical .- itellig rence
Center, Wright-—Pa amt ie ese’ Force Bas : Ihio } I CHARI aE GREGG,
staff writer, “Ihe ald News, Pass N

‘he >tter further reauested that the photographer and
the witness be questioned as to the circumst: mces under which the
photographs were taken and that an attempt be made to locate
other sources in the area that might determine the authenticity
of she photos. No investigation of this type was made by the

Newark division.

In accordance with SAC eg r #83, Series 195: ated
8/29/52, the results of the credit riminal checks and the
neighborhood investigations were fica ‘ded to the local OSI
Office, New York City and no further investigations have been
made by this office.

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THE AAGUE THE HAGUE, October 6th

THE NETHERLANDS

Department cf Justice
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Pennsylvania Avenue
WASHINGTON D.o.
\
In the care of Mr Bailey
Rm 1246

Bailey,

cuse me please if I misspelled your name, but
saw it in writing.
On May 5th at 2.15 P.M. of this year I paid you
in the F.B.I.offices, where I told you details on
ertain su dject you will surely remember. At the end of
conversation I promissed you not to t out it un-
i had Pome word from you whet! or not-the proper
ere interested. It was taken for granted that
ght elapse before the answer could be given.

Five months have passed by since then, and as
the subject has now become active in Europe, I am really
anxious to go ahead with it, I have ofcourse tried to
check the theory on eachvaspect and while doing so I
found various complementary as well as fundamental details.

I have now reached the point however where I
would like to discuss the whole with an expert and I
would theretor certainly appreciate to know whether I have
to consider o agreement on complete silence as still
being valid and necessary or not

It might be that you are too busy to be able to y,
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 th é no longer any necessity for
silence on my part [ not rec 3 any information to
the contrary by the 2 !

By this prop n I do intend to force s
issue but I would like to discuss ¢ Sones like this wit
soared ste friends of mine, which annot do as long as I
am bound ba my promise to you. SA

With very kind regards, AN

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ctober 10, 1952 AIR MATL

ur. Fred wekhout

Uh ia Stadhouderslaan

The Hague
The Netherlands

Béd> ur. Eekhouts:

Your letter dated October 6, 1952, has been
recéived.

You will perhaps recall being advised at the
time of your visit to this Bureau that the matter discussed
was not within the jurisdiction of the FBI. However, in
view of your imminent departure from Washington the infor-

mation was accepted for transmittal to the appropriate
agency, which was to contact you if interested.

Full details were made available at that time to
the Department of the Air Force for evaluation and consider-
ation. In the absence of some arrangement between you and
the Air Force, your further use of the pertinent facts is,
of course, a matter for your own determination.

Sincerely yours,

John Edgar Hoover
Director
NOTE ON YELLOW:

Bulet to OSI, Air Force, dated 5-7-52 transmitted data
furnished by Lekhout to the Bureau 5-5-52 concerning his ideas
as to plans for a workable flying disc. Eekhout was informed

hat further contact with him, if any, would come from the

terested Government agency rather than the Bureau. No mention
was made of his keeping the facts secret pending a reply from
the Bureau or the Air Force. . (62-83894-273)

srdn ww

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DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR DA |

HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON 25, D.C.

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30 September 1952
MEMORANDUM FOR+ ox rates f ue 8
W YORKER

SUBJECT: Comments on Article in The NE}

to the Air Technical Intelligence Center,

1. A call was made
Ruppelt) regarding ‘the attached article.

1330 this date, (Captain

ancl

y indicate to Mr Lang that the

FBI has an interest in flying saucers. Furthermore, Captain
Ruppelt stated that the FBI_to his knowledge has never been called

upon to furnish reports on@flying saucerse ATIC is under the
Lang made the Story up or picked it up from
aper article sometime back that definitely

with their organization.

2. ATIC did not in any wa,

impression that Mr.
a magazine or newsp:
was not associated

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3. ATIC suggests that you check further with Mr. Al Chop,
Office of Public Information, and perhaps he can supply you with
the information you have requested.

1 Incl:
Article fr NEW YORKER» Colone}, USAF
Chief / Policy & nagement Group

dtd Sept 6, 1952
Directorate of telligence b

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OFFICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION
WASHINGTON 25, D.C.

“tet it 3

The following information concerning Air Force investigations of unusual
aerial phenomena is submitted in answer to your request.

In the Fall of 1947 the United States Air Force took official notice of
reports of so-called “flying saucers" becanse the reports from the public
indicated that the problem might be related te the Air Force responsibility for
the air defense of the United States.

On December 50, 197 the Air Foree dtrected its Air Materiel Command, at
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, te set up a project to collect and
evaluate all available facts concerning “flying saucer” sightings.

To perform this task the Air Materiel Command obtained the services of
civilian and military astronomers, psychologists, electronic specialists,
meteorologists, aeronautical engineers, and physicists.

On December 27, 1949, after 375 reported sightings had been investigated, the
Air Force, with the concurrence of the Army and the Navy, announced the findings
of the "flying saucer” project.

The evidence at that time indicated that the majority of the reports of
unidentified flying objects could be accounted for aa misinterpretations of
various conventional objects, a mild form of hysteria, meteorological phenomena,
light aberrations, or loaxes,

There remained, however, a number of unexplained sightings, and the Air
Force has continued its investigations inasmuch as it is an Air Force responsi-
bility to identify and analyze aerial phenomena that could possibly be a menace
to the United States.

Subsequent to December 1949, these investigations have been conducted as
@ normal intelligence function, rather than a special project, by the Air
Technical Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Qhio.

62- §3571-Gep

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To date, the Air Force has undertaken to investigate and analyze about
1500 reports dealing with these phenomena. As before, most of the reports were
identified and disposed of as friendly aircraft erroneously reported, known
electronic and meteorological phenomena, light aberrations, hoaxes, and other
known natural occurrences or man-made objects.

The unexplained reports, however, which are in the order of 20 percent of
the total, cannot be definitely associated with these familiar things.

Difficulty in Evaluating Reports

The difficulty in disposing of these unexplained reports is based largely
upon the insufficiency of accurate basic data such as size, shape, composition
and flight characteristics (speed, acceleration, altitude, exact maneuver pattern,
etc.) of the objects,

Although some instruments which are useful in obtaining more accurate data
of this type have been available, the reports based on 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 tho 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 Stetes. 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 196,

There are many reasons why the volume of these reports has increased
materially during the past few years. Aerial activity originated by man has
increased, and people today have a greater curiosity about this activity than
before. Also, our present efficient communication facilitios and news media
provide an incentive for reporting unusual observations, for publicizing them
and for recording them. However, the ability to measure these phenomena does
not seem to have advanced in step with opportunities for observing them. Tho
Air Force believes that most of these phenomena will gradually be understood
es more is known about occurrences in the upper atmosphore.

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Sourte of Reports

The majority of reports of aerial phonomena have come from civilians, About
8 percent come from civil airlines pilots, while approximately 25 porcent aro
reported by military personnel. Reports havo been received also from highly
qualified scientists. Although primary significance is attached to reports from
qualified observers, there is no intention to discredit untrained observers.

Radar 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
reflected from a layer of warm air above the carth (a temporature inversion).

Temperature inversion reflections can givo a return on a radar scope that
is as sharp as that received from an aircraft, Spoed ranges of theso returns
are reportedly from zero to fantastic speods. 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 is an incident
which occurred in January 1951 near Oakridge, Tennessco. Two Air Force aircraft
attempted to intercept an unidentified "object" and actually established a radar
"lock" on the object. Their altitudo at the time was 7,000 fect, The unidentifia
object, according to their radar, appeared to be at an elevation of ten to 25
degrees. Three passes were made in an attempt to close on the object. In each
instance the pilots reported that their radar led thom first upward and then
down toward a specific point on the ground.

Ionized clouds are believed to be the cause of some unidontifiod radar
returns, Thunderstorm activity is identifiable by radar, and radar 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 mown aerial
objects or manifestations,

Policy Regarding Attempted Interception

No orders have been issued by the Air Defense Command to ite fighter units
to fire on unidentified aerial phenomena, The Air Defonse Command is charged
with air defense of the United States, and its mission is to attack anything
airborne which 49 known or appoars to be kootile., Thio should not bo intorproted
to moan that om pilots will firo haphazardly on anything thet flies.

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Attempts at interception are not made every time that unidentified images
appear bricfly on an Air Force radear-scopo. Current Air Force interceptors are
short-range, short-duration, high-speod aircraft and can be omployed most
effectively when it is possible to track a target by visual or radar means
80 that its position in the air at some future time may be predicted with a
reasonable degree of accuracy,

Methods of Evaluating

The first step in evaluating sightings of unusual aerial phonomona is to
collect all available data and check it against known airborne objects such as
balloons, aircraft, missiles, meteors, and weathor phenomona, If still unexplained,
reports from reliable sources, with sufficient details, are turned over to
specialists in various scientific fields for furthor 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 implemont its present study
with instruments wherever possible,

The recont dovelopment of special photographic equipment may make it possible
to gather data hitherto unobtainable through ordinary photographic methods. This
equipmont consists of a diffraction grating camera which separates light into its
componont parts (spectrum) and rogisters them on film, Tho principle involved is
that used by astronomers in determining the composition of the stars, In this
manner Air Force scientists may be able to determine the characteristics of the
phenomena and subsequently identify the source,

Another proposal involves the use of a continuously operating Schmidt
telescope equipped with a camera. This telescope has a wide aperture lens and
is capable of covering a cone of 150 degreos or nearly the whole sky from horizon
to horizon. This equipment will make it possible to get on a series of photo-
graphic plates a complete record of what happens in the sky at night.

What, "Saucers" Aro Not

The Air Force has stated in the past, and roaffirms at the present timo, that
theso unidentified aerial phenomena are not a secret weapon, missile or aircraft,
developed by the United States, None of the three military departments nor any
other agency in the government is conducting experiments, classified or otherwise,
with flying objects which could be a basis for the reported phenomena, As far 28
is Imown there is nothing in them that is associated with material or vehiclos
that are dirocted against the United States, from another country or from other
planets.

Your interest in this matter is greatly appreciated. Please call upon us if
we may be of further service.
Sincerely yours,

Ag "PORTER AT L@®

midsummer of 1947, the -. ed
tes Air Force, already concerned
th such problems as.the develop-
f guided missiles and supersonic
e rigging up of radar networks,
ontroversy with the Navy over
n, found itself confronted by
nd completely different, head-
flying saucer. People in every
the country were seeing
strange objects that streaked across the
sky at tremendous speeds, and while
these people, who included such prac-
ticed students of the heavens as air-
plane pilots, farmers, and the Lieutenant
Governor of Idaho, were -not able to
identify the things they had seen, they
were able to describe them vividly and
unforgettably. The newspapers called
the first of these mysterious objects a
flying saucer, taking their cue from the
man who reported having seen it and
who described it as saucerlike, and the
name stuck, although later people re-
ported seeing thingsithat looked like fly-
. ps, flying dimes,
gaslights, flying
flying pie plates.
rious things were
‘utiously quizzical
‘gan to appear in the papers,
and the President and members of Con-
gress received a deluge of letters de.
manding an explanation. Many of the
letter writers had concluded that the
objects, whatever they might be, were
manned by Russians, and that as
as their pilots had reconnoitred suffi-
ciently, they would return loaded with
atomic bombs. Others thought the earth
was being visited by space ships from
another planet. Still others suspected
that our own Air Force was secretly
testing some new form of aircraft.
Everyone agreed, however, that it
was up to the Air Force, as the cus-
todian of our welkin, to explain the
flying objects and, if necessary, to repel
them. The result was the launching
by the Air Force, on January 22, 1948,
of a special investigation, an investiga-
tion that, though it has reached num-
erous conclusions, is still under way
and has yet to put the public mind at
rest.

It appears that, aside from the hope
of reassuring a jittery populace, the Air
Force, in embarking upon this under-
taking, had any or all of three things
in mind. Tt may well have shared the
civilian concern oyer what, if anything,
the Russians might have to do with the
reported phenomena, and it may even
have felt that to insure a thoroughgoing

soon

SOMETHING IN THE SKY

investigation there was certainly no
harm in assuming for the moment that
the era of interplanetary travel had
arrived and the earth had become
an objective for journeys from else-
where in the solar system. Or—and this
would not necessarily exclude the first
two considerations—the Air Force may
have been setting up a smoke screen to
protect, in the interest of national secu-
rity, the secret of some experimental fly-
ing objects of its own that only a trusted
few of its members knew about. What-
ever the purpose, the investigation, with
which I have been in touch from time
to time, has seemingly been exhaustive.
The Air Force personnel originally
jgned to it was later augmented by
psychologists, physicists

meteorologists, physicians, and repr
sentatives of the F.B.I. The inve:
tion, which soon became popularly
known as Project Saucer, was first
headed by LicutenanteG nja-
jen-

tiga-

» GE

eral of the Air Matériel Command,
and its base was, and is, at Wright Field,
Dayton, Ohio. The project’s task turned
out to involve a mixture of old-fashioned
detection, scientific analysis, public rela~
tions, and the study of a widespread
state of mind, In December, 1949,
after checking, over a period of two
years, three hundred and seventy-five
reports of intruders in the sky, the Air
Force publicly called it quits, but Project
Saucer was not actually disbanded. Na-
tional security, the Air Force announced
at the time, was not endangered. The
flying saucers were apparitions, it said,
all attributable either to a failure to
recognize conventional objects, to
hoaxes, or to a mild form of mass hys-
teria. The Air Force, however, did not
let the matter rest there.

Not long after the apparent demise
of Project Saucer, I had a talk in Wash-
ington with Brigadier General Ernest
Moore, then chief of Air Force In-
telligence, in the course of which he
made four categorical statements that
I felt sure he had made many times be-

Clipped from The NEW YORKER

September 6, 1952
pages 64 through 82

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fore. ‘t.._ off,” he s* a
have nothing to do’
saucers; [ll swear te was
Bibles, if you like.

have any secret ne

that could have star

tion, Third, nobody
spotted space ships : ;
planet. Fourth, ev: investi
gators learned has vailable
to the public.”

Russians
so-called
aa stack of

mt occurred
24,1947,

a business

rm that makes
was flying his

ington. The re-

ash on one wing

turned and, at a

was about twenty

00k to be nine tail-

ig toward Mount

e their outlines quite

he snow,” Air Force

Intelligence quoted him as_ saying.

“They flew very close to the mountain-

tops, directly south to southeast, down

the hog’s-back of the range, flying like

geese, in a diagonal, chainlike line, as

if they were linked together . . . a chain

of saucerlike things at least five miles

long, swerving in and out of the high

mountain peaks. They were flat... and
so shiny that they reflected
the sun like a mirror.” Ar-
nold said he watched the
saucers for three minutes
and estimated their speed at
about twelve hundred miles

an hour.

Air Force technicians,

consulted by newspaper-

Fmen, said that any object

moving that fast would be

invisible to the naked eye at

Arnold’s estimated distance.

The press scoffed at Ar-

nold’s story, and he was re-

sentful. “Even if I see a

ten-story building flying

through the air, I won't

say a word about it,” he de-

clared, and when he got

back to Boise he wrote a series of ar-
ticles about his experience for a mag-
azine called Fate.

No sooner were the skeptical news-
paper accounts printed than dozens of
people turned up with similar re-
ports. Another resident of Boise spotted
a disc over that city, “a half circle in
shape, clinging to a cloud and just as
bright and silvery-looking as a mirror
caught in the rays of the sun.” Lieu-

of Idaho, disclosed that

—s
tenant Governor Donale e

had seen a comet-shaped objece

over the western part of the s
finally dipped below the horiz

said. (Later on, the personnel of Proj-
ect Saucer decided that the Lieutenant
Governor had been looking at either
Saturn or Mercury.) Four cops in Port-
land, Oregon, saw a group of discs
“wobbling, disappearing, and reappear-
ing.”

Reports of other phenomena having
been seen in the skies appeared in the
papers almost da aly. Be eae officers

a, reported

the air at incredible. and leay-

ing no vapor trail; some fishermen off

Newfoundland saw a series of aerial

flashes, silver to reddish in color; a lady

in Oregon watched a group of saucers

nd alerted her

re ghbors gene presence of foreign

gents practicing a secret code in our

skies; an Oklahoma City man saw a

saucer “the bulk of six B-29s;” and

a prospector in the Cascade Moun-

tains of Oregon saw six saucers in a

group, banking in the sun—round,

silent, and not ft ing in formation.” On

the Fourth of July, there were twelve

reports of saucers in widely separated

parts of the United States. One of

these saucers, sighted at Trenton, New

Jersey, was traced to a

fireworks display. Dr. Paul

Fitts, an Ohio State Uni-

versity psychologist who

was for a time attached to

Project Saucer, considered

this crowded condition in

the holiday skies the result

of mass suggestibility, the

same jumpy trait that

caused Americans to see

Zeppelins overhead during

and after the First World

War. “Our graphs show

that saucer incidents al-

ways increase dramatically

after publicity,” he has

since told me. “The sky,

you know, has been a

source of exciting visions

from time immemorial, and its attrac-

tion is particularly strong in our jittery
moments.”

ROM the beginning, the officers in

charge of Project Saucer recognized
a peculiar difficulty in their assignment.
“If you look out the window and see
something, how can I prove or disprove
what it was if I didn’t see it and you
can’t tell me much about what you

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saw?” Major
then the chief @ss«! ficer between
Wright Field and tIN{high command
in Washington, said to me one day
shortly after Project Saucer had pre-
sumably become a thing of the past.
“Tt would be different if flying sau-
s were known to exist. Then we
could collected evidence indi-
cating the degrees of probability that
such things were sighted and the reason
for their appearance at a given place.
But it is impossible to prove, logically
and with finality, a double negative—
that is, that th re no flying
and that people have not seen fly
he best we could do under the
circumstances was to deduce, first, from
the fact that it had not been proved, that
saucers een seen and,
from the f. pubis theories
could be advanced to explain away all
the reports of seeing them, that probably
nobody had seen them at all. The
fewer the theoretical explanations and
the less plausible they were, the more

~gs, who was

have

second;

son there was for suspecting people
had seen saucers.” The Major shook
his head, and continued, “It’s a difficult
concept to grasp, but so was the job we
were tackling.”

I asked Major Boggs whether there

$s any Way to account for the epidemic
of reports of strange celestial objects.
he replied. “If
you look up at the sky long enough, you

“OF course there is,”

And more
people are looking up now than ever
before. Kids don’t count freight cars
any more; they coun’ People
who were trained in vation
during the war have gone right on
observing. Also, the public hasn’t for=
gotten that the atomic bomb was kept
secret from it for three years. This
time, people want to know what’s cook-
ing, so they look up.” Major B

hed. “Time was when people used
to make a wish if they saw a shoot-
ing star. Now they telephone the Air
Force.”

Major Boggs and I pondered this
unromantic age in silence for a mament.
Then he returned briskly to the prob-
lems that had confronted the investi-
gators. “The one tangible thing we had
to work on was the fact that the sky is
full of things,” he said.
come

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“T can’t even
close to estimating the number of
commercial and military aircraft up
there at any given moment. Then, there
are more than five hundred outfits of
one kind or another that release balloons
from time to time. These range from
simple weather balloons, ne” “ger than

page 67,

68

* had behaved like anc 1 aircraft

in the way it ‘err LS: the line
of sight.

Here, the experts professed to hope,

was something Project Saucer could get
its teeth into. The whole flying

auc
mystery might be explained. ‘The first
step was to determine whether the ob-

ct was an aircraft that had been par-
cloud or whose
d been distorted by
storm. “Two hundred and twenty-five
civilian and military flight schedules
were analyzed, and it was found that
one other plane, an Air Force C-47,
had been near the I liner at
the time the mysterious object was
sighted. Conjecture about the C-47
began to appear irrelevant, however,
when the Macon ground crews agreed
with Chiles and Whitted that the thing
they had seen was going much faster

tially obscured by

appearance I

rain

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than two hundred miles an hour, and
s0,-unless it dawdled around some-
where, wouldn’t have taken anything
like an hour to get from Macon to
Montgomery.

Astronomers went to work on the
problem. Dr. Hynek considered the
possibility that a brilliant, slow-moving
meteor 1

ht be the explanation. Vari-
ous bits of the apparition’s description
encouraged this notion—“orange-red
flame,” “cigar-shaped,” “a tremendous
burst of flame.” Unfortunately, the
flight schedules of meteors are not avail-
able, and Dr. Hynek had no means of
testin

g his hypothesis. “It will have to
be left to the psychologists to tell us
whether the immediate trail of a bright
meteor could produce the subjective im-
pression of a ship with lighted win-

dows,” he wrote in a report on his

findings. The psychologists expressed
the opinion that a meteor could indeed
be mistaken for a space ship. Dr. Fitts,
the Ohio State psychologist, observed
that both Chiles and Whitted were

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pilots frequently gave some pretty odd Chicago, Los Angeles
reports of what they’d seen while fly-
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ing a routine patrol for th+Nor**-Da-
kota National Guard,and ju. _ked
the tower at the Fargo Municipal Ai
port for clearance to land when he saw
what seemed to be another plane’s tail-
light a thousand yards away. He queried
the tower, and the men there reported
that the only other aircraft over the field
was a Piper Cub. Gorman could see the
Cub plainly outlined below him. Curi-
ous, he flew toward the light. “It was
about six to eight inches in diameter,
clear white, and completely round, with
a sort of fuzz at the edges,” Gorman
later told investigators, adding that he
saw “no outline of anything” around
the edges. “It was blinking on and off.
As I approached, however, the light sud-
denly became steady and pulled into
a sharp left bank. . . . I dived after it
and brought my manifold pressure up
to sixty inches, but I couldn’t catch up
with the thing. It started gaining alti-
tude and again made a left bank. I put
my F-51 into a sharp turn and tried
to cut the light off in its turn. By then,
we were at about seven thousand feet.
Suddenly it made a sharp right turn
and we headed straight at each other.
Just when we were about to collide,
I guess I got scared. I went into a dive
and the light passed over my canopy at
about five hundred feet. Then it made
a left circle about a thousand feet abo
and I gave chase again.” Gorman fol-
lowed the light up to fourteen thousand
feet, where, after another near collision,
his ship went into a power stall and the
light disappeared to the northwest.
Gorman noticed no sounds or exhaust-
trail odors. He had gunned his plane
up to four hundred miles an hour with-
out gaining on the light. It was able to
maintain an extremely steep angle of
ascent, far greater than that of his Air
Force fighter. “When I attempted to
turn with [the light], I blacked out
temporarily, due to excessive speed,” he
said. “I am in fairly good physical condi-
tion and I do not believe there are many,
if any, pilots who could withstand the
turn and speed effected by that light and
remain conscious.”

Project Saucer suspected that Gor-
man was tilting with a weather balloon.
For one thing, it learned that the Fargo
weather station had released a lighted
balloon only ten minutes before Gor-
man’s patrol stopped being routine.
The object’s steady, practically vertical
climb suggested the behavior of a bal-
loon. A technician who once worked on
Project Saucer told me recently that
chasing a weather balloon with an air-
plane is comparable to diving to the

bottom of a pool after a hollow rubber
many saucers
holding one in my ov
The

Wright Field, where it was identif

he said.

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ring the w

loons the hopeful
across the Pacific ¢
effort to start forest fires.

Even pictures taken of supposed sau-
cers failed to impress the experts. There
was the case of a in Ph

man enix,

Arizona, who spotted a flat gray ob-
ject spiralling up and down in the sky
at a speed that he estimated at between
four and five hundred miles an hour.
He snapped two pictures of it with his
Brownie. Prints were rushed to Project
Saucer, and Dr. Irving Langmuir, the
physicist and a Nobel Prize winner, was
asked to study them. The distinguished
that a thund
before the

scientist learned rstorm
had occurred

taking, and concluded that he was loc

just picture-

ing at a couple of rather poor shots
of a piece of paper being buffeted by

the wind.

A time went on and the skies, appar-
ently, continued to teem with fly-
ing saucers, the generals in the Penta-
gon, warming to their task, decided to
enlarge the scope of the investigation.
Commanders of all Air Force installa-
tions in the country were ordered to
assign Intelligence officers to look into
sightings reported in their areas. The
officers were instructed to solicit the as-
sistance of municipal police officials, who
might be familiar with the personalities

B.I. was

pon for assistance, and as-

also called
ned agents to help interview people
who reported that they had

The

naire, drawn up by Air Force Intelli-

seen discs,

ents used a standard question-

ind maneuvers. The
transmitted to Wright

information
Field,

obviously

igual
usually

but stories were so
false and some
ly trifling that the F.B.I. men
bother to fill

Seattle, for

some

“evidence” so obvious-

even out the questi
naire. In
larmed woman called the police to in-
form them that a flam

ed on her roof. The

ent
to be

instance, an

made of plywood, with “USSR
found that a_ turpentine

had caused the fla

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on the retina and moving as the eye

moves. e@
Other elements of th®@uc@problem

were studied by such men as Dr. George
Valley, a nuclear physicist at the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology; staff
members of the research firm of Rand
Corporation; an assortment of physici:
and aerodynamicists who specialize in
the study of the stratosphere and the
space beyond jit; and the electronics ex-
perts attached to the Cambridge Field
Station. These men were all se

for physical rather than psychologic:
explanations, and some fairly strange
theories occurred to them—the possibil-
ity that extraterrestrial animals were

flying into our atmosphere, for example.
(No data turned up to support that ar-
resting idea.) The theory that the sau-
cers were hostile aircraft was carefully
studied and rejected. “The perform-
ances of these saucers not only surpass

the development of present science but
the development of present fiction-sci-
ence writers,” one scientist noted. The
specialists also considered and rejected
the concept of discs capable of riding the
air on beams or rays of some kind. The
even speculated on whether the anti-
gravity shield that H. G. Wells thought
up for his novel “The First Men in the
Moon” would work; it wouldn’t, they
decided. The supposition that interplan-
etary craft were whizzing in at us ¥
also. discredited, despite its popularity
with laymen. Space ships, the scientists
thought, would have to be so large and
unwieldy that they couldn’t possibly zig-
zag as frivolously as the reported saucers
did. Besides, a space ship, regardless o|
size, could not, in the opinion of these
men, carry sufficient fuel to remain for
any length of time in the earth’s dense
atmosphere. The scientists noted, too,
that the supposed spacemen showed a re-
markable lack of interest in the rest of
the world, being, it would seem, almost
unanimous in their desire to see America
first. “The small area covered by the
disc barrage points strongly to the belief
that the flying objects are of earthly
origin, be they physical or psycholog-
ical,” one of the scientists reported.
From the report turned in by the
astronomers, I learned that they, in ad-
dition to seining out comets, meteors,
chondrites from the
s people were seeing in
the skies, had also thoughtfully con-
sidered our planetary neighbors. ‘The
old question of the possibility of life on
Mars took on a new urgency, and anew
corollary: If there are living creatures
on Mars, would they be capable of
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that—that while the infozmation they
give me may be i GQ their
names never will be.” Sm cases,
Captain Ruppelt said,
has shown that the people he has

viewed had been deceived by things
that have been deceiving others all

investigation

along—balloons, planes, meteors, and
so on—but a nettling residue of around
twenty per cent of the cases have wound
up in that exasperating old pigeonhole
abelled “Unidentified.” Nothi for
found to account
“something silvery ectly
overhead” reported by a mystified Civil
Aeronautics Administration inspector at
Terre Haute. A commercial pilot who,
flying near Battle Creek, Michigan,
spotted “an oval-shaped silver object”

example, could be
for the

ahead of his ship, posed a similarly un-
solved problem, as did ah
naval officer, stationed at the dirigible
base at Lakehurst, New Jersey, who re-
ported that he had stared through his
binoculars at a brilliant image making
turns that were far too tight for any
known aircraft.

Twenty-five per cent of the observ-

hly respected

ers interrogated by the Aerial Phenom-
ena Officer in the last two and a half
years have been military pilots. Eight
per cent have been commercial pilots,
some with as much as twenty years’ ex-
perience in the air, and at one stage in
the current phase of the investigation,
even a few physicists at Los Alamos,
New Mexico, men who make a fetish
of objectivity, were interviewed after
they reported having seen puzzling
lights hovering above their atomic-
energy laboratories. “If you took
any one of these incidents by itself,
Captain
“But in view of the

it might not mean much,”
Ruppelt said.
number and calibre of the informants,
you couldn’t help taking their claims
seriously.”

In February, 1951, Dr. Urner
Liddel, a nuclear physicist attached to
the Office of Naval Research, at Wash-
ington, D.C., declared that at last,
thanks to the lifting of certain security
restrictions, he could provide the solution
to the mystery of the flying saucers:
They were “skyhooks,” he sa val-
loons a hundred feet in diameter, which
the Navy had secretly been sending up
for the past four years in order to
study cosmic rays. Dr. Liddel’s asser-
tion was immediately disputed by Dr.
Anthony O. M
head of the Air Force’s Atmospheric
Composition Bureau, had assisted in the
diagnosis of Project Saucer reports. Dr.
Mirarchi

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fourtees minutes, Piermaygyy
bright lights that resemb! tas
shooting stars, but three of them were
moying horizontally, unlike any shoot-
ing Star he had ever seen. Another com-
mercial pilot who was reached in flight
nearby said that he saw a light off his
left wing; Barnes found a corresponding
pip on the radarscope. Other pilots in the
vicinity reported, however, that they
could see nothing unusual. Toward
daybreak, ten peculiar pips were counted
multaneously on Barnes’ screen.
ion I can
reach but that for hours on: the
morning of the twentieth of July there
were at least ten unidentifiable objects
moving above Washington,” Barnes
wrote. “They were not ordinary air-
ft.... Nor in my opinion could any
natural phenomena account for these
spots on our radar, Neither shooting
stars, electrical disturbances, nor clouds
could, either. Exactly what they are, I
don’t know. Now you know as much
about them as I do, And your guess is
as good as mine.”

A week later, at 9:08 p.m. on
July 26th, the Air Route Traffic Con-
trol Center’s rad ‘ope again showed
unidentifiable objects over Washing-
ton. So did the screen at the Andrews
Air Force Base, just outside the capi-
tal. Two jet interceptors, capable of
doing six hundred miles
were dispatched from a base near New
Castle, Delaware, to investigate. When
the interceptors appeared on the radar-
scopes, they were guided toward the
objects. One of the pilots sighted
four lights approximately ten miles
in front of his plane and slightly above

“cr

There is no other conclu:

n hour,

it, but they vanished while he was
trying to overtake them. ‘Twenty

minutes later, he saw “a steady white
light,” but within a minute it, too,
disappeared. “We have no evidence
they were flying saucers,” an Air Force
representative said later. “Conversely,
we have no evidence they were not
flying saucers. We don’t know what
they were.”

As a result of these two incidents,
particularly the one involving the inter-
ceptors, public agitation reached a new
height. The Air Force was bombarded
with hundreds of letter:
and telegrams demanding information
and offering advice. One of the smaller
airlines supplied its crews with cameras
and ordered them to photograph any
saucers they encountered. A civilian
wrote to the Air Force that he would
let it in on “the secret” in return for a
colonelcy. A Los Angeles pastor wrote
to Einstein, beseeching him to clear up

telephone calls,

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79

80
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tronomers, whom }* “alled “our best

advisers... in tj 2ss of visitors
from Cowher the sky
continuously, but they had reported no
saucers. The General was reminded
that many of the people who had told of
seeing the most spectacular things were
considered the most reliable. He replied
that he had no intention of discrediting
them, but the fact remained that none
of them had offered data of the kind a
scientist would find useful. An Air
Force officer whom General Sam-
ford personally knew to be a com-
petent witness had told him of seeing
a saucer in-the Middle East. This
man, too, had been unable to obtain ac-
curate measurements. ““We have many
reports from credible observers of in-
credible things,” the General remarked.

Like General Moore, his predecessor
in Project Saucer days, General Sam-
ford denied that the Air Force was at-
tempting to cover up secret experiments.
When he was asked if the saucers might
be the guided missiles of a foreign coun-
try, he replied that he didn’t see how, on
the basis of their weird performances,
they could be unless “someone” had
achieved a means of developing unlim-
ited power—“power of such fantastic
higher limits that it is a theoretical un-
limited; it’s not anything that we can
understand”—and utilizing it under
conditions in which no mass is involved.
As for the latter, the General told the
press, drawing a laugh, “You know,
what ‘no m means is that there’s
nothing there.”

HILE General Samford’s inter-
w probably reassured the pub-
lic as evidence that the Air Force was
still on the job, it did nothing to |}
the nation’s saucer-consciousness.
reporters had hardly thanked the Gen-
eral for his comments when, on Au-
gust Ist, a Coast Guard photographer
produced a picture showing four bizarre
lights burning brilliantly in a daylight
sky. He said he had taken it over Salem,
Massachusetts. The next day, a Har-
vard astrophysicist called the photograph
worthless because it was accompanied by
no scientific data, such as temperature
distribution and altitude. On August
6th, an Army physicist at Fort Belvoir,
Virginia, created the equivalent of flying
saucers in his laboratory by introducing
molecules of ionized air into a partial
vacuum in a bell jar, and three days
later an internationally known authori

ty on atmospheric conditions said of the

physicist’s experiment, “I know of no
conditions of the earth’s atmosphere,
high or low, which would duplicate

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1952, and the enclosures therete, received by this
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Reference is made to an article which appeared in

‘ew Yorker" dated September 6, 1952, which is attached.
This article which was written by Daniely
inaccurate information regarding FBI inves
cating that the FBI conducts certain inquir:
flying saucers at the request of the Air Force. It is
pointed out here that, although the Bureau did at one time
conduct some investigations regarding flying saucers, a
present agreement has been set up with the Air Force whereby
the Air Force conducts all investigations pertaining to flying
saucers and the Bureau, upon receiving complaints of this nature,
nerely turns the complaints over to the Office of Special
Investigations (OSI), 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 OSI has been contacted by Lang, and he
suggested direct contact by the Bureau Representative with
Air Intelligence to determine if Lang had been in touch with
anyone in that organization in order to gather information for
his article.

Colonel C. M. Young, Executive Officer to Major
General John A. Samford, Director of Air Intelligence, advised
_that Lang has not contacted General Samford's office.
Colonel Young also telephonically contacted Captain Ruppelt
of the Air Technical Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, on September 30, 1952. Captain i]
Ruppelt advised Colonel Young that they have never indicated pets |W
in any way to Mr. Lang that the FBI has an interest in flying ye
saucers, Captain Ruppelt stated that the FBI to his knowledge 4
has never been called upon to furnish reports on flying saucers.
Ruppelt is under the impression that Mr. Lang made the story up \\)
or picked it up from some magazine or newspaper article sometime, \
back. Both Colonel Young and Captain Ruppelt are thoroughly av Ye
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Colonel Young suggested that further contact be made with
Ur, 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.

Ur. Chop was contacted and advised that he was familiar
with the attached "New Yorker" magazine article. He advised
that Lang had gathered most of the material about two years ago
when considerable publicity regarding flying saucers had appeared
in newspapers. He does not know where Lang gathered the material
at that time but assumes that he gathered it from various sources,
such as other newspaper articles. When the recent publicity
regarding flying saucers appeared in newspapers, Lang renewed
his interest in flying saucers and attempted to bring his
article up to date. He contacted Mr. Chop for further current
information. Mr. Chop advised that he gave Lang some routine
items of interest regarding flying saucer complaints and
investigations by the Air Force, but that he instructed Mr. Lang
not to contact the Air Technical Intelligence Center for further
information from that source. Mr. Chop also advised that at
no time was the FBI mentioned and that he has no idea where
Lang obtained the information appearing in his article concerning
FBI investigations. Mr. Chop advised that he is thoroughly
familiar with Bureau policy pertaining to flying saucer investt-
gations,and that he at no time has indicated to any writer or
newspaper representative that the FBI conducts investigations
pertaining to flying saucers. Mr. Chop advised that, if the
Bureau desires, he would be glad to contact Lang to discreetly
determine where Lang obtained his information indicating that the
FBI conducts investigations pertaining to flying saucers. He
stated that he could make this contact without indicating in
any way the Bureau has contacted him. He was advised that his
offer of cooperation was appreciated, but that it was not
desired that he make such an inquiry at the present time.

There is attached a current mimeographed form containing
current information regarding the whole flying saucer matter
which was turned over by Chop. This is the information which

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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.

sTAWOrRO FORT NO. 64 @ . 2 e

Office Memorandum * UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

TO

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ur. A. He BELMONTO” aE ote arudry Sale 7

FROM : Ve P. KEAY//J; yy ate

SUBJECT: ‘ FLYING SAUCERS Yr

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Air Intelligence advised of another creditable and_

unezplainable sighting of flying saucers. Air Intelligenc
still feels flying saucers are opti roy ae
pherical phenomena but some Military 2. Gre SeRbOUsbYy
considering possibility of interplan tary ships.

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 Technical. In gence Center located at
Wright-Patterson Airforce Base, Dayton, Ohio; that approximately
90 per cent of the reported sightings of flying saucers can be
discounted as products of the imagination and as erplainable objects
such as weather balloons, etc., but that a small percentage of
extremely creditable sightings have been unerplainable.

DETAILS:

Colonel C. M. Youn Executive Officer to Major General
John As Samford,..Director of intelligence, Air Force, advised on
October..23, 1952, that another recent extremely creditable sighting
had been reported to Air Intelligence. A Wavy p Vovographer, while
traveling across thé United States in his own car, saw a 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. Experts
at the Air Technical Intelligence Center have advised that, after
careful study, there were as many as twelve to sirteen flying objects
recorded on this film; that the possibility of weather balloons, f,
cloud other explainable objects has been completely ruled out; y)

a complete loss to erplain this most recent aed

creditable sigh g 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 FLYING SAUCERS
from Ve. 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, however, that some
Mi ffi 3 are seriously considering the possibility of

interplanetar r
ACTION:

This is for your information.

October 28, 1952

Mr. H#arvel \Reece, CoT.Ss Ne
1578 Van Fandt Road
Cincinnati 31, Ohio

Dear Mr. Reece:

ANG

I want to thank you for your letter and the
enclosures which you forwarded to this Bureau.

I have taken the liberty of forwarding a
copy of your letter and the enclosures thereto to
the Department of the Air Force, inasmuch as the

natter referred to in your letter tse within the
jurisdiction of that Department.

Stncerely yours,

|
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John Edgar Hesber,;
Sirseter es 0C,(30 1952
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Note: The Records Section has been unable to locate a cross
reference on the name Narvel WoodrowyRtece (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 taken to expedite the Bureau's reply to the
correspondent. Wile mentioned above concerns name check requests.

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Date: February 11, 1953

To: Director of Special Investigations
The Inspector General
Department of the Air Force
The Pentagon
Washington 25, De Ce

From: John Edgar Hoover, Dtrector
Federal Bureau of Investigation

6
Subject: FLYING DIScs
MISCELLANEOUS + INFORMATION CONCERNING

There are attached for your information tn
the capttoned matter a Photostat of a letter dated
January 20, 1958, received by this Bureau from
Mr. Robert De Wolf, 19 North Forsythe Street, Franklin,
Indiana, with the enclosures referred to therein, and a
copy of this Bureau's reply to Ure Wolf.

No investigation is being conducted by this
Bureau tn this matter.

1953

Mr. Robert D. Wolf
19 North Forsythe Street
Franklin, Indtang

Dear Ur. Wolf:

Your letter dated January 20, 1953, has
been recetved, together with enclosures.

Although I would like to he of service
in conneotton with your request, I would ltke to
point out that the FBI ta strictly a fact-finding
agenoy and it ts not within the scope of its
prescribed authority to make evaluations or draw
conelustons as to the character or integrity of
any organization or individual. JI know you tll
understand the reason for this rule and will ap-
prectate my inability to be of assistance to you
tn thts regard.

he literature and letter you forwarded
are being returned.

Sincerely yours,

JAN 28 1953
MAILED 20 John Sdgar Hoover

Dtreetor

Nae Liv
- Indianapolis, with copy oj incoming and copy of letter
signed by itbert XK... Bender.
w Haven, with copy ‘of incoming and copy of letter
ilbert Ky Bender.
INTION SAC'S':’ (seeynext page)

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ATTENTION SAC's: Correspondent also enclosed a copy of
the January 19, 1953 issue of "Space Review", the publication
of The International Flying Saucer Sureau, indicating the
address as Post Office Bor 241, Bridgeport, Connecticut,
This small periodical contains news of various I.F.S.B.
groups throughout the United States and England and news
items relating to flying saucers,

No references can be located in Bufiles on the I.F.S.B.;
"Space Review" or Albert K. Bender

| JOHNSON COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL DEFENSE

MONROE AND JACKSON STREETS
FRANKLIN, INDIANA

ROBERT D. WOLF
Director 20 January 1953

Mr. J. Edgar Hoover
Director Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington, D. C.

Deer Sir:

I would first like to apologize for writing to you direct, however, I have
cleared this morning with our State Director end he suggests this procedure.

We have been having some success with our Ground Observation Corps as we have

four: (4) posts here in the count ye 4 y /
fa

Last Fall I wes contacted by oné of our local business men WEting™tO kiiow if
I would be interested in joining tpofint ernational 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
Franklin is approximately twenty (20) miles southwest of Indianapolis, on the dual
lane highway US #51.

H a enclosing a letter which was received last October, as well as the current

Would like to know if this organization has been cleared or

] issue o.
[

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

Home Address:
19 North Forsythe St.
Franklin, Indiana.

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Editor - Publisher
nicer Review”
GEORGE D. FAWCETT ny you about
Lecturer - Sauceriana : a a 1g our organization
Collection
STANLEY E. CROUCH a ;
Editor - Science and letter you asked what cours
ears) Mageone ax: > should take in connection with
followir

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‘ P. ©. BOX 241
Presiden: and Editor ‘All i ieves”’

‘All is possible to one who believes ne Bes Acseeld
MAX KRENOEL 8 se

Vice-Pres. and Treas. U.S. A.

ALLAN C. RIEVMAN
Secretary

)II(

ort to IFSB all reports and sightings in
ur area. However, first put the sightings
ore your group and let them judge whether
ey are authentic or mot.

Ke a recora of ail Civ memoers in your area
and their activities as 2 as I¥S8 in concerned.

in if possible (merel; st stion), a tape
sordér so that you can send actual voice to
3B heedquarters. In th way, I as President,
could send messages for ) to play at your local
meetings. In the future I may even vay your city
a visit and attend one of ir meetings.

These are all merely sugyestions for you to ponder over

f you decide to adopt any of them please consult with

Indiana Represent: tive, Mr. C bell. After you have
is, get in touch with me at »>nce.

Sincerely hope that thes sug bior wil hel

ng some move as to what ) I Sal roup will do,

Forever Looking Up,

rt K. Sender
ivent

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Copyright 1953 by ALBERT K. BENDER

VOL. II, No. 1 January, 19‘ Bridgeport, Conn., U.S.A
IFSB OF BRITAIN ORGANIZES

FRANKLIN, INDIANA JOINS EN MASS

een organized in
world that ha

Organization. Throug!

and work of Mr. Louis | rahm,

an, Mr. Jack W. Moore, police-

Robert Wolf, civilian defense

nd Mr. Dick Ca npbell, IFSB

3 Representative for Indiana. this great ac-

oustge grees np nee mp! was made possible. At this
ng the IFSB in the dlication, Franklin can claim 20 men
us articles have ne f i ten from nearly towns {

NL iocal

y Society, Aero-Dyn

reporters, and flying sau

nome,

Moore

wed in

Pu DUR PRESIDENT HEARS FROM
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SPACE REVIEW

SAUCERS IM THE NEWS

MAYAGUEZ, PUERTO Rico, Oct. 3, 1952—
Strange objects were sighted by two per-
sons in Mayaguez on Oct. 3, they were
ruising East and were red in color. It was
out 10:30 p.m. when they were sighted.

Norway AND SWEDEN, Oct. 13, 1952—
During October the Norwegian Govern-
ment stated that a strange object resemb-
ling a saucer landed on Norwegian soil.
German experts are claiming that the de-
vices are of Russian origin, and the des-
ription given by Norway fits the descrip-
on given by German experts. Stockholm,
sweden, has also been sighting strange
objects

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, Sept. 13, 1952

-A young woman sighted a noiseless
green ball flying too fast to be a plane or a
meteor. She sa smelled like a rotten

2 O 0
egs

wy, Nov. 1, 1952
ag of the third Inter-
ational Astros cal Congress in Ger
nany where 200 s entists from 12 cos
tries gathered they stated that saucers
not from Mars or any other planet
said they are merely optical and

STUTTGART, ‘
At the recen

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New YorK—A terrife air
place over a small area of
¢ N_Y., which broke windows,
racke< walks and caused general
nic. There were no planes around
eduled at that time, Oct. 1952

ERNATIONAL AIRPORT, NEW YORK,
kt. 16. 1952—A blue flame flashed over
mal Airport at 7:33 p.m. It was

ll-like object. Hayden Planeta-

ul stated it may have been the
f a meteor.

tk, YORK, ENGLAND, Sept 20,
1s During exercise ‘‘Mainbra RAF
pilots sighted a white object a 000
feet. The object was silver in color and
circular. It intained a slow forward
speed before beginning to descend, swing-
ng i | It followed the air-

revolved ) Own axis af mes

then took

WasHINcTON, D.C., Oct. 16, 1952—-The
Navy announced that it launched rockets
from giant balloons, high above the North
Geomagnetic Pole, sod sent them to alt:-
tudes of about 40 miles. The balloons were
as tall as a 10-story building.

PARIS, FRANCE, Oct. 7, 1952-— A flying
saucer was sighted over Southern France
y two Air France pilots.

WESTERN KOREA FRONT, Oct. 29, 1952

U.S. troops saw a half-dozen mysterious
park-throwing ‘‘cartwheels’’ over the wes-
tern front of Korea. They were as the eye
ices, 18 inches in diameter, moving in a
15-foot circle.

GAILLAC, SOUTH OF FRANCE, Oct. 29,
1952-—For the second time in two weeks,
20 townspeople of Gaillac saw a series of
white circular objects, slightly swollen at
the center, spinning across the sky, they
were flying in formation of two and were
grouped around something that looked
like a giant flying cigar. As the objects
passed overhead they. let fall a sort of
string of bright wh#te threads, which set-
tled gentiy on trees and telephone lines
When the people tried to pick them up,
they melted like ice. A police officer who
picked up some of the thread said: “It
looked Jike glass wool and it melted away
almost as soon as it was touched.”

OLORON, FRANCE, Oct. 17, 1952—About

a dozen people, including a schoolmaster,
saw flying saucers surrounding a long cigar
like object flying through a clear sky at
ibout 6,000 feet.

New ZEALAND—The clippings and stor-
ies from New Zealand are swamping our
office and are so numerous that we must
devote a whole page to them in our April
issue.

For move detatled information on an)

write to IFSB

tie date your clippings that you send

. and note the source.

SPACE REVIEW

SUTTON, WEST VIRGINIA MONSTER MAY BE

““COLLIER’S”

ROCKET!

Rev. S. L. Daw, Washington, D.C., Representative, IFSB

I have personally photographed flying saucers six times and
place where one landed in Charleston, West Virginia. I also tal

rsonally photographed
alked to two eye-witnesses.

| ‘sat: antl talked to police officer who was burned by one in Wheeling, West Virginia.

My own cousin was the doctor who treated him.
to photograph one going over Melessa Pass, 5000 feet up in the Blue

i atte my tec 4

Ridge mountains, as I was at a height of 2500 feet at Wahala Glen just directly opposite

from Melessa Pass. The picture was not too good due to the mist from the mountains.
The object that landed at Charleston, West Virginia was described as a large metal

ball, throwing off a white light and after landing, two small men in red emerged from

a trap in the

got back in vad feck off. We can prove what
the moon
a jet pro;
smal] per

This was described in Colher’s

A. cording to the Washington Daily News
magazine. The picture on the cover of the maga-
ws a sphere-headed, wide-botromed, tank-bellied rocket craft spewing out burning

the rocket described in Collie

could
zine St

there is a device with the motors on
elled apparatus which throws off a large meta
trom the center which when reflected could easily
nagazine of October 11,

and climbed up a tree to look around. Seeing people watching them, they
thes was: In the grt to shoot rockets to

the nies and the body of the device is

shaped disc which throws off a
taken for some sort of a
1952.

the monster seen at Sutton, West Virginia

hydrazi ne and nitric acid as it lands hind-end on the moon. The West Virginia people
aimed to have

seen: “An object estimated a
pe of a man. Two lights flashed
ike gas escaping, ans sharp sicken

The United States may be expe
of, and it is domng its best to keep
corner.

10 feet tall, four feet wide at the bottom
om side to side, the machine made a noise
as about.’’ Sounds somewhat the same.

ith something that the public is not aware
The age of rocket ships is just around the

CIVILIAN SAUCER INVESTIGATION OF NEW ZEALAND
CONTACTS IFSB

The Civilian Saucer Ins
October 13, 1952. They plan
affiliation with the Government
may belong. Most of the mem
five years. ane y reeenent all
man in the street. The committee
attached to engir saieenchi, who is
of the Territo il Air Force,
tion engineering inspector; D
an astronomer and eng:

have beer
sted parts
isists of M
President
the secret
a stu

wh
Aris,
Greager,
ommittee ;
n of flying

Aims of the «
nately find the orig:

Mr. H. H. Fulton, and Mr. R
IFSB. We hope to estat
New Zealand. CSI sent to It

rs have been sighted wit
made in our next issue. &

ill be a success.

orrespon
s and th
La

lish

of Nes
e or disapprove
urmed for

Zealand was set up in New Zealand on
the existence of saucers. It has no
of tO any society to which its members
studying flying saucer reports for at least
astronomers, scientists, aviators, and the
i. H. Fulton, a sergeant in the R.N.Z.A.F.
CSI of NZ; Mr. R. J. Lavaris, a member
of CSI of NZ; Mr. G. H. Gilmore, avia-
studying for a science degree; and E. J.
h kindred bodies overseas, and to ulti-
nparison.
heen made members of the International
elations with this society and get a rep-
arge map of New Zealand showing all
ry of each sighting. A complete report
CSI of New Zealand the best of luck

SPACE REVIEW

EDITORIAL

In 1492 Columbus discovered a new world after traveling thousands of miles across
the great expanse of unknown waters called the Atlantic Ocean. It was a great adventure,
yet one that was laughed at, ridiculed, and even spoke of es a ‘‘folly’’.

Here was a small group of men searching for what lay beyond the known, endeavor-
ing to unfold the mysteries of lands that were not supposed to exist. All they had were
three smal] ships laden with provisions that they estimated would last the journey.

The seas were infested with monsters, so the skeptics said, and the world was flat
with a dropping off place. Columbus proved these fallacies to be wront, when he landed
in the West Indies.

The years directly ahead of us will see amother great adventure such as this. A smail
group of men will assemble in a certain designated place, climb into their ship, a ship
vastly different than that of Columbus's time. This ship will be a rocket shop, and its oc-
cupants will shoot off into the vast sea of space to find new worlds, new peoples, and
new frontiers.

They will be laughed at, they wil! be ridiculed, and the whole thing will be called
the greatest “folly on earth, but wil! #« be such? Time has proven that impossibilities
become realities, the automobile, the airplane, radio, telephone, telegraph, television,
and the smashing of the atom are defimete proof. All is possible to ome who believes,—and
I am a sound believer!

*

FROM THE ASSOCIATE EDITOR'S DESK

The mysteries of space have | ascinated most peaple on earth. One need not be
onomer to gaze in awe at th it which unfolds before the eyes as we gaze sky-
any clear night.

vastness of space is difhcul: to explain, even for astronomers. When distances
n of it is simpler for learned men to use the term ‘light years” than miles. The
f celestial bodies suspended in space like our own earth are unknown. The
we from millions on up. But they remain just that—guesses.

who make our home on a mere cinder of matter in the eyes of space, cannot be

sagh to think that intelligent life exists only here. Those who believe that there

for everything which happens, should agree that these millions of bodies in
serve more of a purpose than just twinkling brightly on a clear night.

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