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FLYING SAUCERS, SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT, AEC . SECURITY OFFICE OF AEC
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August 11, 1952
llr. Edmond J.1ane
Mauston, Wtsconstn
Dear JJr. Kane: Y ~-
Your letter dated August 1, 195'?, has
been received, and I a ppr e ctate t ) e t , terest which
promoted your brt n9tn g uour observations to my
attentton.
Ina s much as the matter of the /lyin g
saucers ts bet n~ i n ve st igated by t he United States
Atr " orc e, I am tattn g the liberty o/ / orwardtng a
copy of your 1 et t er to the Di rector of $.~~ i al In.ve3it igat i ons ,
The I nspect:or Gerner.al,. :Depa-rtmerf't: of -fJh•e A n : Force, 'I!te Pentagon,
Yfa s h i ngt.on,. D. C. I / you have ; u rcn. er observattona along
t r. ts ltne, I ~ould sug ~est that you may wtsh to ooa-
mu nica t e dtreotlv with htm.
S incerely youra,
Jo hn Edgar Hoover
Director
Copy by form to A ir For c e Intelligence.
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Mauston, ,Jisconain, 1 August 195'2
Mr. J . Edgar Hoover, Director
FBI
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
As a retired member of the St Paul Pol ice Force and having had
numerous pleasant contacts with Agent Clintonste.in and Samy Har4Y,
I take the liberty of an opinionthat came to me that th~flying
saucers scare seems possible that the rel~se..d.. enfil'gLQ~oded
A½?mic Bombs could be soaring around in the atmosphere. I know
you can channel this thought to ""tlre prupet atrbhoritt~and cer
tainly would appreciate your comments on this thouiht.
I am a Veteran of both ·.:orld War #1 and #2 and also a member of
the American Legion for 32 years. I am presently a member of
The American Legion Post #81 of Mauston, .iisconsin which is
known as the Burton-Koppang Post.
If this thought is instrumental in tracking down the source of
this scare thereby releaving some of the tension to our American
Country, it may be worth following up at this time.
Thanking you very much for your cooperation and consideration in·
this matter and will you please acknowledge and advise your can
ments .
Yours very truly, ./__
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Hauston, v-Jisconsin
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August 12, 1952
Mra. Ora ~ y grett
c/o Lou Uerlaw Far~
Rural Route No . l
New Palestine, Indiana
Deor Jlrs . Tygrett:
four letter dated July 31, 1952, addressed to the
War Departnent, c/o Federal Bureau of Investigation, has been
received.
Tour interest 1,n fu rri iahing your observation in
this regard is appreciated.
In view o.f th e contents of your comm.uni cation
wh ich also appear to be of i nterest to the Department of
the Air Force, I have taken the liberty of .furnishing
th.at Agency a copy of your 1 etter.
S incerely yours ,
John Edgar Hoover
Director
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Auguai 13., 1952
To: Mrecior o/ Special Inueaiigaiiona
The Inapecior General
Deparimeni o/ ihe Air Force
The Penia~on
f'aah t ngion 25., D. c.
John Edgar Hoover, Dtrec1or
Federal Bureau o/ lnueaitga tion
Subjeci: o,.LIING DISKS
There ia aitached a Phoioatai of a ael/
ezplanaioru leiier dated Auguai 5, 1952, ai
Poniiac, Jlichtgan 1 received bu thia Bureau /roa
J/r. r . a. Jennin gs, 3096 Ha;ulaar11, Zone 1 7, Pon-tiac,
Jlichtgan, relaiing to t he capiioned maiier.
Jlr. Jenninga' le1 i er has been acknowledged
and he has been inf ormed ihai a cop u o/ hia letter
haa been /urniahed· io uour o//tce /or approp rt a ie
aitention. No Juriher act ion t a con t emplated in 1his
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Date: Augua t 13, 1952
To: Director of Special Investigations
Ths Inspector General
Department of t h• .A£r Force
The Pentagon
rashtngton 25, D• c.
From: John Edgar Hoover, Director
Federal Bureau o/ Investtgatton
Su bject:q ,LTING DISKS
There ta attached a copv o/ a self
ezplanator71 letter dated Julu 31, 1952 , received
b71 thi a Bureau from J/r. Benedf cto Roattro, 1647
Part Avenue, New rort Ctty, relating to the
capttoned •atter.
1/r. Romero's letter ha.a been actno0ledged
and he has been inJoraed that a cop11 o/ hta letter
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has been /urntshsd to uour oJ/tce /or appropriate
attftntion. No further action ts cont~m.plated in
thts matter bu thta Bureau.
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.Date: Augua t 14 1 l 958
To: Ltr•otor o/ Bpeotal lnvsattga~tona
The Inspector General
Deparnent of t he A1r Force
The Pentagon
Washington ?.51 D. c.
Thsre t3 a~tached a cop~ o/ a •~1/
ezplcnatory letter dat~d Au9ue~ 1, 1~52 1 received
by thia Bureau /ron Yra . Fred Hau/e, 606 Falnu~
Avenue, Fairm.ont, est Virginia, relatin. g to t2
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,. S'r,AN.OAR•() FORM NO. 64
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Office Memoranduni • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO HARED Irg--
: MR. R. T.:., 8, 1952 DATE: August
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SUBJ~Cef ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION WRITTEN kosen_ _
ERMAN LANGTTAGE RECEIVED BY
NCINNATI ENQUIRER" PERTAINING
FLYING SAUCERS 11
SECURITY MATT"R - X
Reference is made to a letter from the Cincinnati Office date~
August 6~ 195'2 , submitting an anonymous letter in German concerning I
so- called "Flying Saucers . 11
Attached are 7 copies of a translation of this German material ~ A A ~ t ~
prepared in the Cryptanalysis- Translation Section. ,, y--. ~ •
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No r eply has been made by us to the August 6, 1952, ·letter .frqm
Cincinnati.
RECOMMENDATION:
That the Domestic Intelligence Division review the Cincinnati
submission and accompanying Bureau translation, for appropriate handling,
noting particularly a suggestion in the last I,,aragraph of the Cincinnati
letter to consider makif!g this informati~ available to other Governmental
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F'ly:1..ng ~aucer,
a weapon teoted in 19h41 whieh 1a probably now being produced 1n
aerie•, and at thia tiae causes a grat stir, ia av-weapon 1'bich
has a round body a1lllilar to a disk haYinu a diameter of about
48-$0 m. On the outer ring i t has about li5-SO aut.Qalatic circular
noseles which after the ignition of tho disk circulate around a
plexiglasa :;phere 1:n the cent.er in which. the ea'suri.ng and controllin1
dov:tces !or long-distance steering aro located. In the opbere is still
sufficient apace for atom bombs. llhase weapons are in Thlaeian hands
and can haw an e.ffect1ve range ot ~.3S,OOO km. ffio conatruotor ot
v-weapona FJEDEL 1n German7 atated that it concerns • typical v-weapon
on which ho hlld worked b111u1elf. I am aure t.hat tbe truth ie better
than a pamc among isnoran t people.
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To: Dtroctor oJ' ~pecial Snvesttgattons
ThD Inspector General
Dcp,:rtocnt o.r th Atr F.orce
The f>an tcoon
oeh:t ngton 25, n. c.
o: John ~oar Uoou r 1 trector
Federal Bureau o/ Inv~sttoatton
litibjec"b: C}LYIN ~~ UOEES DATR
!i'hare ts attaol,cd co untcatton whtch
ao encloood 0ith a letter dated July 29, l958
fro r . 3ohn Oollow y, JV Clifton Placa, Br oo lyn s.
New Yor~. r latluc to the captioned otter.
JJr . Gallow y' a letter hao bocn aoknowledo d
~nd he has bee~ 1nJome~ that thtc comt!Untco~ton ha
been furntahe6 to your o/-tioe ,tor apprDprtate ott n~t on.
·o further actton ia coritc olated th 'th te natter by
1Jhi 13ureau.
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Director, FBI
SAC., San Diego (100-856.$)
BORDERLAND SCmtCES , RF.sEARCH ASSOCIATES
San Diego, California;
J.m.AD LAINE - Director; YAX FREEOO'J LONG - Director
Refe1..ence is made to San Diogo letter dated 8-.S-52 concerning the
captioned matter.
For the addi tional information of the Bureau, there is being trans
mitted herewith one copy each of the follO'IT.i.ng which were made
available to me by FRANCIS OEM, who is a member of the captioned
organizations
l. Mimeographed letter consisting ot four
pagoa addressed to His EKcellency, Tho
Pres ident of the tllited States .
2. ?,limeogl"aphed 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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Jackson, Minnesota
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EX. - 73 rour letter pas tmarkecl August is, 1952,
togethe r with enclosure, has been received, and I
want to thank you for br,ngi ng thia matter t o my
attention.
Inasmuch as the oontents of your communi
cation do not reflect any violatton wtthtn the
jurisdiction of thia Bur sau, I am unable to comply
with your request.
I am taking the 1,berty ot forwarding a
copy oJ your letter and uour original enclosure to
... the Director of Spec ial Tnuestigattons 1 The Inspector
General, Department of the Air Force, The Pentagon,
Washi ngton as, D. a., since these matters may be of
interest to that agency.
Sinoerelu yours,
John Edga r Hoover
Director
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• Jackson Minn
Aug 2, 1952
J . Edgar Hoover
Fede r al bureau of Investigation .
Washington, IJ. c.
IJear Mr Hoover:
I don ' t know if you analy2e arti cles so will
send you a sample of (something that looks like tinsel)
because my uncle found it in a pasture in a r ound pile ,
underneath of it, it looks as tho the clover was burned .
& there are 3 similar patches which are burned in a
triangle form . Last Sunday Morning the Neighbors Wife
got up to get a drink of water & happned to see a steady
white Light circling thei r 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 j mile from the pasture & now we are wondering
what it is . So would l ike to have you analyze it & let
me know.
Sincerely yours,
/s/ Wm Hoffmeye r
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August 20, 1952
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1 Jlr. John E.~ ang
1413 ~outh Vermont
Los Angeles 6, California
DtJar fr . Lang:
Your letter oj August 12, 1952, has been received
and I want ~ou to know that I appreciate the tnterest
prompttng 1/0U to bring you r observattona to my attention.
Inasmuch as the matter to which you refer is of
interest to the United States Air Force authortttes, I am
taking the libert1/ of ~aktng a copy oj your communication
available to The Honorable, The Se cretar y of t;he Atr Force ,
The Pentagon, Washtno ton 25, D. C.
S incerely yours,
John Edgar Ho over
Di rec ·tor
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La.et sunday rcy wife an.l I attented a, 1ove i nl.) pict'L!.re .here they
showed tt4 Fl!' i !l.
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Ee.ucer.;i,it look3d like El. S!)Ot of li.:;ht
It ~ave rre the i rupr ea ion that there rni ht be a plsne up in the
aky r:i th a spot light er serch li..,ht that ie send down fron: the plane
and ~hen our plan es rr ak.e en affcrt t o ~o up thers to find them
they turn off the licht and there for we feel that they have nade a
fc..et ~etaway "..l!) into the sky at a very fast speed th ia . lane t:.Oee back
to its air field or to another plcce end fool the public
I f our plane on i ts ·:tay up to. find this plane ·o ... ld ,_o up i th all the
li hte turn3d off and et&y f~rr a,ay and t~. to come over tte tcp
c f this plane they would be able to catch it b'.1 t they sho-:.1.ld r:e
rrepaired tc ahoot it out if needed
I think in order to prove + i1- Idic. we shondd send one of cur o ~n
p l ane up and have them a~nd down e spot light or aerch li(3ht to
fintl out if this ia not true
if this is cf any help it ,11 11 1,ake rre happy
I dont th i h k I am very Off
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SAO, San Diego
BORDERLAND SCIENCES, RESEARCH ASSOCIATES
San Diego, Cal1forni a; MEAD LAYNE, Director;
MAX FREEDOM LONG, Director
Izt?l-view of the current hysteria concerning the
so-called 1'-fl_y1ng saucers", I thought that the Bureau
might be interested 1n the .following in.formation concern
ing the captioned organization .
I am transmitting herew1th certain 11terature 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 ,
1952, at approximately 12:00' noon, FRANCIS OHM as ked to set
me urgently, which I did. As a member of the captioned
organization, he advised me that they were having a meeting
at 1 :00 PM the same day, inasmuch as they had been advise
that they had some v~ry important information to discuss .
He went on to relate that thro ugh t he means utilized by hta
org ani zation (which the enclo sed literature will reflect
border s on the ocoult) , they were able to prognosticate
well in advance the rece~t earthquake which occurred in
Tehachapi, California . He advised that they have also
been able to obtain the fol lowing information:
1. That a very severe tidal wave will hit the
Pacific Ocean sometime in the not too remote future and
that moat of the Japanese Islands 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 publ ished in the
newspapers within the past week.
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Ref BORDERLAND SCIENCES, RESEARCH ASSOCIATES
San Di ego, California; MEAD LAYNE, Director;
MAX FREEDOM LONG, Director
6 . That the flying saucers are not fantasies; that
they are fac tual and actual; that his associates in the cap tioned
organization have been i n conversation with the men operating
the f lying saucers, end that they have asked t ha t high officials
of the u. s. Government be informed t hat they are here on our
planet on a peaceful mlssion and that they are not on a warlike
mlssion. 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 plm. es completely in
no time n at.
Mr. OHM requested tha t either I myself attend the
meeting at lrOO PM or that I designate a stenographer to attend
the meeting , s o that she could take down all the minutes of the
meeting. I tol d him that unfortunately this was very short
noti ce, that I had another commitment and that our stenographers
were pretty well occupied at that time. He s ald he would advise
me of anything important that might transpire at the meeting .
As of August 2, 19.52, he has not a dvised me of anything which
transpired at the meeting.
I should like to point out that OHM appears to be
a perfectly sane , sound i ndividual; he operates a very l arge
i nsurance business in San Di ego, and is convinced in his o-wn
mlnd of the effic acy of this organl zation.
No investig ation is b eing conducted concerning this
matter and I do not contempl ate attending any meetings of this
organi zation .
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August 25, 1952
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n Dear llr. Choinski:
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rour letter dated August 14, 1952, has been
received, and I want to thank you /or a/fording me the
benefit of your observations.
Inasmuch as the matter to whtch you refer
ts of interest to another governmental aJency, I am
taking tne liberty o/ /orwardtng a copv o/ v our com
~~ntcation to the Director of Special Investigations,
Phe Inspector General, Department of the Atr Force,
The Pentagon, Kash tngton 25, D. c.
Stncerely yours,
John Edgar Hoover
Dtrector
Co p y o/ incomin g sent to the Director of Special
Investtgations, the Inspector General, Department of
the Air Force, by form letter.
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STANDARD l'ORM NO. 84 ' •
Office Memorandum • uNrTEn sTATEs GOVERNMENT
DATE : August 22, 1952
FROM
Jlr. If. A. Brantgan ) fP.. _~n1// TOlson_ _
Ladd_ _
SUBJECT: FLYI NG DISCS j27/ Clegg_ _
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PURPOSE: Harbo_ _
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To recommend existing ins t ructions to the /ield 1'ele. Room_
re fluing discs be called to the attention o/ the Nease_ _
fteld . Oe.ndy_ _
BACKGROUND:
A review of communtcattons recetued from the
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fteld indicates they are not observing existing
t nstructtons contained in Bureau Bulletin #57, para
graph D, dat~d 10/1/47, and SAC Letter #38, dated
3/25/49, to re/e r details of complaints regarding
flying saucers to OSI locally.
ACTION:
It is recommended the attached SAC Letter
b~ issued.
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TO A . H . BEioNfJ DATE : August 18, 1952
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conce r ning the sighting of flying discs {saucers , etc . )
be telephontca l ly furnished immediately to his office ,
day or night, by dia l l i ng Code 1261, and asking /o r
Extension 509 . Captain Deegan advised the Air Force
is greatly concerned about the captioned matter, and
would app r eciate the Bureau ' s c ooperation in immediately
advising of details r eceived concerning such complaints .
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Paragraph n~ dated October 1, 1947, and SAC Letter lf:38, dat ed
Mar ch 25, 1949, in the captioned matter.
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nishing to OSI local ly complaints regarding flying discs , pursuant
to existing Bureau instructions.
Upon recei pt 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 referr ed to in the Air
Force memorandum, which was furnished to your office as an enclosur e
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 f l ying discs is the r esponsibility of the
Department of the Air Force .
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... STA,~ ARD FORM NO. 64
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Office Mem(/, w,~Jum . UNITED S1'ATES GOVERNMEN T •
TO JIR. {?df'f ) HARBO August DATE : 29J 1952
FROM D. J,. PARSONS , ( \ ~ TOlSon+
SUBJECT: UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJEC~
ALLEGEDLY CITED BY MR. D. S~
WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA
ESVERGERS, ~~
Tracy_ _
Harbo_ _
By letter of Aug~st 26, 1952, the Air Force requested *~---
that we examine the cap of Jlr. Des vergers, a scoutmaster Tele. Rooa_
at West Palm. Beach, Florida, who claims th.at he obserued ~ /.. ::
unidentified flying object in a desolate area. He report f t? l ~ l /
that upon his investigation, a ._- object 30 feet in diam te&,- ,:
hovered over his head and shot a "red blob" which causedrhimt:,,t o /l_i__ · ,.
lose consciousness. The cap has some holes burned in it an d it~
is reported that the hair on Desuergers' arms was singed. The f
Air Force requested that we determine, if possible, from any 1 •
residues left the nature of the residual material . 1
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The Air Force desires an oral report on this tonight . ?o-,,,.,.>-d>"_«,
~e have finis hed the e xamination and are prepa r ing to advise the fr,
V) 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 s•all 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 ux,uld not be expected if the
source of the flame was directly overhead .
3. When the cap is obse r ved from the front, the left ff
edge of the insignia and the fold in the bl ue 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 , ~I Colonel Free
rlof the Air Force, i t is recommended that he be
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Septembe r 11, 1 952
Air. Ro~ l wel l
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Dear ZJr. Elwell:
Your l etter postmarked September 6, 1952,
has been recetued, and I appreciate the interest
pr ompting you to l et me haue the benefi t of your
obaeruattona .
Si nce the contents of your communication
may be of interes t to other governmental agencies,
I am taking the l i berty of ~o r vc r dtn9 coptes of i t
to the Adm i nistr ato r of Ci utl Aeronautics, Ctutl
Aer onaut;i cs Administr ati on, ])epar tn.en t o/ Com.m.erce,
Washington, D. c . ., and t o The Hono r abl e, The Secretar y
of Defense, Th e Pentagon, »ashingto n, ]). c.
Sincerel y your s , =-
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sTANOA.RO f'ORM NO. 64
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TO Mr. A. H . BeieJ~ ))/ DATE: September 20, 1952
( FROM C. E. HennricrC 1 Y/ Tolar.n~
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SUBJECT:
MONTANA ON SE~~~ER 19, 1952 V. ......_
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I talke~b..ASAC Plaxico of..Bu.tte on~September 20 IIOhr_ _
re tbe attached news releases indicating that the FBI
:was investigating a strange white object wpich reportedly
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streaked aero~~ skL_of M~ntana for about one hundred
miles • .Mr. Plaxico stated that while a report of this
object had been received at the Butte Office, that no
lPvestigation was conducted re garding the matter and that
U9ne was coritempiat~
ACTION:
For your information.
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~Offi;;"Memo~ n d w l t ~ ~nltl\tn~•
i \ TO DIRECTOR, FBI DATE:
10/3/52
FRO M
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~1 SAC ' NEWARK (100- 36998)
SUBJECT:
RE :
SPECIAL INQUIRY
UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL OBJECTS;
Inspector General, USAF
2nd District Office ~f pecial Investigations
67 Broad Straet 1
New York 4 , New York - <- I n !JI .S ~ .- y b
For the information of the Bureau , on August 27 , 1952 ,
the Newark division received a request from the Inspector General ,
United States Air Force , 2nd Di strict Offic e of Soecial Investi
gations , 67 Broad Street , New York 4 , Ne~ork , that the back-
ground of a civilian photographer , JOHN ILEY , 571 Main Street ,
Paterson , N. J ., and of GEORGE J~~ CK , 21 Brooks Avenue , Passaic ,
N. J ., be investigated in an att'crmut to determine their reliability
in view of the fact that they had allegedly observed and photo
graphed an unidentified aerial object on July 31, 1952 .
The appropriate credit and criminal checks were made in
this matter as well as discreet neighborhood inquiries as to both
individuals , and no information was received that either individual
had criminal records or that they were known in the past to have
perpetrated any kind of fraud .
It was ascertained that S'l'OCK did photogreph an allegedly
unidentified aerial object and that RILEY witnessed the incident
and developed and printed the exposed film which was subsequently
forwarded to the 5th OSI District , Air Technical Intelligence
Center , Wright - Patterson Air Force Base , Ohio by Mr . CHh.RLES GHEGG ,
staff writer , "The rlerald News , Passaic , N. J . 11
The letter further requested that the photographer and
the witness be questioned as to the circumstances under which the
pnotographs were taken and that an attempt be made to locate
other sources in the area that might determine the authenticity
of the photos . No investigation of this type was made by the
Newark division .
In accordance with SAC letter #83 , Series 1952 dated ~
8/29/52 , the results of the credit and criminal checks and the
neighborhood investigations were forwarded to the loca l OSI
Office , New York City and no further investigations have been
made by this office . P.._ J. _ :ij" !, '{) / f --.3 i ,,
LWR :IMH
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T~E' AA~GUE THE HAGUE, October 6th
THE NETHERLANDS
Dep1.rtmen~ cf Justice
,;,edera.1 Btrreau of Investigatio"1
Pennsylvania Avenue
WA SH INGTON D.~.
In the care of Mr Bailey
Rm 1246 r~ l
Dear Mr Bailey,
Excuse me please if I misspelled your name , but
I never saw it in writing.
On May 5th at 2 . 15 P.M. of this year I paid you
a visit in the F.B . I.offices, where I told you details on
~ 9e_d §.in subject yo11 will surely remember . At tpe end of
the conversation I .E,r,grn_1sse<!_ you no~ ~,2. _t~l!E, e.bo11t it un
til _I had receive1 ..Y!.Q.,rd trorn x.,01.!., wheth~ gr po! t;he ryro per
authorities were interested. It was taken ~or granted that
a few months might elapse before the answer could be given.
Five months have :,:>asse.d by since then, and as
the subject has now become active in Euro::,e, I am really
anxious to go a,'1ead with it, I have ofco11rse tr ied to
check the theory on each aspect and while doine so I
found various complementary as well as fundamental details.
I have now reached the point however where I
would like to discuss the who7.e w'"i th an ex')ert and!
wguld ther~or cerla1nly auryr.eciate to know- whether I have
to consider O.!:!!, a_g_reernent on comolete silence~§ still
being valid and necessary or not
It migh"""t be that you are too busy to be able to '2
write to me of that the authorities are not interested. As )
it is not my intention to bother you too much with it, i
w~ll take it that t1;_,ere is no lonBe~a.EL_~cessity for
silence on ~y part ~f I do not _!e~eiv~ any in~ot~ation to
the contraryoy the end of this month.
~y ~his proposition I do not intend to force an
issue bu.t I would like to discuss a subject like this with
scientists friends of mine , which I cannot _do as long as I
am bound b3t my promise to you. /" I I .,
With very kind regards, 1
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October 10, 1 952
AIR MAIL
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C.J\• ji6- Mr . Eekhout :
Your letter dated October 6 , 1952, has been
received .
You will per haps r ecall being advised at the
time of your visit to this Bureau that the matter discussed
was not within the jurisdiction of the FBI. Howeve r, in
view of your imminent depar ture from ~ashington the infor
mat ion was accepted fo r trans mittal to the appropriate
agency, which was to contact you if interested.
Full details we r e made available at that time to 01
the Department of the Ai r Force for evaluation and consider C
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ation . In the absence of some arrangement between you and
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the Air Force, your further use of t he pertinent facts is ,
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of course, a matter fo r your own determination. .) <..,-,
Sincerely yours,
John Edga r Hoover
Director
NOTE OJI YELLOW:
Bulet to OSI, Air Force , dated 5-7- 52 transmitted data
furnished by Eekhout to the Bureau 5- 5- 52 concer ning his ideas
as to plans .for a workable flying disc . Eekhout was informed
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, . . . . , DEPARTMENT ~ F T HE AIR FORCE '
H E AOQUARTERS UN ITEO STATES A I R FORCE
WAS HINGTON 25, 0. C.
30 September 1952
MEMORANDUM FOR: MR. ~ OX
SUBJECT: Connnents on Article in The NEW YORKER
1. A call was made to the Air Technical Intelligence Center,
1330 this date, (Captain Ruppelt) regarding the attached article.
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2 . ATIC did not in any way indicate 1.o 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<l'lying saucers. ATIC is under the
impression that Mr. Lang made the atofyup or picked it up from
a magazine or newspaper article sometime back that definitely
was not associated with their organization.
3. AfIC 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, C
dtd Sept 6, 1952 Ch' gement Group
n· telligence
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
OFFICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION
W AS HINGTON ZS, D . C.
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The follow::f.ng infoniat1on concerning A1r Force 1nvest1gat1ons of unusual
aerial phenomena 1a submitted 1n answer to your request.
In the Fall of 19, 7 tho U'lited States Air Force took official notice of
reports of eo--call ed "f lying sauee1"8'1 because t he reports from the public
indicated t hat the problem might be related to the Air Force responsibility for
the air defense of t.be lbited Stat.es.
On December ;o, 19"7 t.ho AJ.r Foree d.:treoted its Air Materiel Command., a.t
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base~ Dayton~ Ohio, to set up a project 'to collect and
evaluate all available facto coneerning "fl.yi.n g saucer" sighti.ngB.
To perform this task the Air Ma~r14ll Cczmnantl obtained the services of
civilian and military aatronOIQfrs, psycholo~ate~ electronic specialists,
meteorologists, aeronautical engineers., and ~hyeiciste.
~ December 27, 1949, after 375 reported a1gllt.izl&3 had been tnvestiaated, the
Air Force, with the concurrence of' the Arm:I and the Navy, announced the findings
of the "fl.ying saucer" project.
The evidence at that time ind!cated that the majority of the reports of
unidentified flying objects could be accoWlt~d for aa misinterpretationa of
"farious conventional objects, a mild fonn of byateria, meteorologioal phenomena,
11~ aberrations, or hoaxes.
There r emained, hov~er , a number of unexplo.inad eightings., and the Air
Force has continued it.8 1nveet1ga.t1ona i:nrumnich as it is an A1r Force responsi
bility to identify and anal.yze aerial phenomena that could poesibl.J be a menace
to the United States.
Subsequent to December 19li-9, these investigations have been conducted aa
a normal intelligence function, :-ather than a special project, by the Air
Technical Intelligence Center, Wright-Fatterson Air Force :Base, l>ayton, Ohio.
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To date, the Air Force has undertaken to investigate and analyze .ab~ut
1500 reports dealing with these phenomena. AB 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
lmown 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 baaed on sightings with these
instruments have been very infrequent and comprise an extremely small percentage
of the total. Moreover, even these reports have not included much of the
information required.
Because of the inadequacy of this basic data, the Air Force has in the past
devoted its efforts primarily to determining whether these unexplained sightings
indicated the existence of a menace to the United States. Initially it was
believed that some pattern might evolve from tho 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 boen
flurries of them in various centuries. The current series of sightings began
generally in 1946.
-There are many reasons why the volume of these reports has increased
materially during the past few years. Aerial activity originated by man ha.s
increased, and people today have a greater curiosity about this activity than
before. Also, our present efficient connnunication facilities 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 moat of these phenomena will gradually be understood .
as more 1~ lmown about occurrences in the upper atmosphere.
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(
Source of Reports
••
The majority of reports of aerial phonomena havo come from civilians . About
8 percent come from. civil airlines pilots, whilo approximately 25 percent are
reported by military personnel. Reports have boen rec eived 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 r eceived many r eports of unusual images on radar scopes.
It is fairly well established that some of these images are ground objects
reflected from a layer of warm air above the earth (a temperature inversion) .
Temperature inver sion r eflections can give a r eturn on a radar scope that
is as sharp as that received f rom an aircraft , Speed ranges of theso r eturns
are reportedly from zero to fantastic speeds . The "objects" also appear to move
in all directions,
Such radar sightings have resulted in hundreds of fruitless inter cept
efforts.
One scientific theory holds that light can bo 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 o.n incident
which occurred in January 1951 near Oakridge, Tennoesoo. Two Air Force aircr aft
attempted to intercept an unidentified "object" and actually established a radar
'~lock" on tho object, Their altitude at the time was 7 ,000 feet . The unidentifiel
object, according to their radar, appoarod to be at an elevati on of ton to 25
degrees , Three pusses were made in an attempt t o clooe on the ob ject. In ouch
instance the pilots reported that their radar l ed thom first upward and then
down toward a specific point on the ground.
Ionized clouds ar e believed to be the causo of some unidontifiod radar
retu;rns , Thunderstorm activity is identifiable by radar, o.nd radar is used for
the purpose of avoiding thunderstorms, In addition, r adar has picked up many
objects first reported as "unidentified phenomena" which were later identified
as aircraft, birds, balloons, ice formations in tho a ir, or other known aerial
obJocts or manifestations.
Policy Regarding Attempted Interc eption
No orders have been ~seued by the Air Defense Commo.nd t o its fighter unite
to fire on unidentified aerial phenomena, The Air Defense Command is charged
with air defense of the United States, and its mission is to attack anything
airborne which io m,wn or oppooro to be boot1le. Thio ctioul.i oot bo i nt-Orproted
to goon toot o~ piloto will nro hnpbnBOl'Oly on nnyth1nc t,hat flies.
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Attempts at interception are not made every time that unidontified ilI]tlges •
appear briefly on an Air Force radar-scope. Current Air Force interceptors are
short-range, short-duration, high-speed aircraft and can be employed most
effectively when it is poaeiblo to track a target by visual or radar means
oo that its position in the air at some futuro time may be predicted with a
reasonable degree of accuracy.
Methods of Evnluating
The first step in evaluating sightings of unusual aerial phenomona is to
collect all available data and check it against known airborne objects such as
balloons, aircraft, missiles, meteors, and weathor phenomena. If still unexplained,
reports from reliable sources, with sufficient details, are turned overt~
specialists in various scientific fields for further analysis.
As stated earlier, there is a need for better reports from trained observers
using adequate equipment. The Air Force intends to implement its present study
with instruments wherever possible.
The recent development of special photographic equipment may make it possible
to gather data hitherto unobtainable through ordinary photographic methods. This
equipment consists of a diffraction grating camera which separates light into its
component parts (spectrum) o.nd registers them on film. Tho principle involved is
that used by astronomers in determining the composition of tho stars. In this
manner Air Force scientists may b0 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. Thie telescope has a wide aperture lens and
is capable of covering a cone of 150 degrees or nearly tho 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 11 Saucers" Are Not
The Air Force has st~ted in tho past, and reaffirms at tho present time, that
these 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 as
is known there is nothing in them tho.tis associated with me.terial or vehicles
that are directed 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,
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A fl r .POR. TcR. AT l f\ r> GE
I N mid ummer of 19+7, the -
States Air Force, already concerned
cd SOMETHING IN THE SKY erat of the Air ~1atericl Command,
and its h.1se was, and is, at \ Vr:~ht FieIll,
with such prohlem~ ;'I.:, the develop- i1H'estigation there was certain!} no DaJton, Ohio. The project's ta,k turned
ment of guided mi,siles and supersonic harm in assuminz for the moment that out to in\'olve a mixture of old-fashioned
craft, the n,..,;in3 up of radar nctworh, the era of inte;planetar} tra\·el l_1ad detection, scientific analpi,, puhlic rela
1
and its controvers} with the a\'} over arrived and the earth had bernmc tions, and the stud} of a widespread
unification, found tself confronted h\ an ohjective for journeys from el,e- state of mind. In Dccemher, 19+9,
another, and complctel} different, head~ where in the solar S}'Stem. Or -and this after checking, over :1 period of two
a~he-tht II) ing ,aucer. People in everr would not neces,;arily exclude the first years, three hundred and se\·enty-fi\'e
<.ectlon ot t e c1 unti, were ,eein~ two consideranons-the Air I orce may report:, of intruder-. m the sk}, the .-\1r
strange objects that streaked across the have hecn setting up a smoke screen to Force publicly called it quits, hut Project
sk} at tremendou~ speed,, and while protect, in the interest of national '-l:CU- Saucer was not actual!} dish. ndnl. :--.a
these people, who included such prac- rity, the secret of some experimental fly- tional sernrity, the Arr Force announcecl
ticed students of the heavens as air- ing ohjects of its own that uni} a tru,tcd at the time, was not endangered. The
plane pilots, farmer,, and the Lieutenant few of its mcmhers knnv ahcn1t. \\"hat- R) mg s. ucers were apparmons, t said,
GO\ ernor of Idaho, were not ahle to ever the purpo~e, the investigation, with all attrihutahle either to a failure to
identify the things they had seen, they which I ha\·e heen in touch from time recognize conventional ohjelt~, to
wc.-re able to descrihe them \·ividly and to time, ha-. seeminc.d} heen cxhausti\'e. hoaxes, or ro a mild form of ma,~ hy,
unforg-ettahly. The newspapers called The Air Force personnel originally tcria. The Air Force, however, did not
the fir~t of these mysterrous objects a assi;?ned to it \\'a, later au..!mented hy let the m:mer rest there.
fl} in~ saucer, taking their cue from the astronomer,, psycholo(!'.ists, physicists, 1
ot long after the apparent demise
man who reported having seen n and meteorologists, physicians, and repre of Projen Saucer, I had a talk in \\' a,h
who descrihed it as 5:tuct•rlike, and the sentatives of the F.B. J. The investit!'.a in(!'ton wnh Bn;!:adicr General trnest
name stuck, althou,!h later people re- tion, which soon hecame popularly ,\1oore, then cl;icf of A,r Force In
ported seeing thin!;!, that looked like fl)- known as Project Saucer, was first telligence, in the course of which he
ing chromium huhcaps, flying dime,, headed hr Lieutell.lnt Gent'ral Benja
m.1de four catc .i:orical ~tatemcnt$ that
ff}ing teardrop,,, fl) ing ~aslicihb, flrin~ mm \V. Chidlaw, Commandin!! G en I felt sure he had made man} times he-
·--~-l·ream C'0nes, and fl) ing pre plates.
A~ more and more rurious thin..!s were
..e~n '.n the kie , cautiously qu,✓.zical
cd1tonals began to :1ppear in the paper~,
and the President and members <It Con-
gress received a deluge of letters de-
manding _an explanation. \1an) of the
letter wncer:. had C'oncluded that the
objects, whatever they might ht·, were
manned h) Russian,, and that • :. soon
as their pilob had reconnoitred ,uffi-
ciently, they would return loaded with
atomic bomhs. Others thou..!ht the eanh
was heing visited h) spaC'c ship, from
another planet. Still other, suspected
tha~ our own .-\ir Force was secretly Clipoed from The Nim YORK,_..R
testrng some new form of aircraft. Septem~er 6, 1952
Everyone agreed, however, that it pages M through 82
was up to the Arr Force, as the cus
to~1an o~ our welkin, to expla111 the
Ryrng <>hJects and, if neces.sary, to repel
them. The result was the launchinn-
hy the Air Force, on January 22 1948
o_f a special i1l\'estigation, an im\•,ti:ra:
aon that, though it has reached 11111n-
erous con clusions, is still under way
and has yet to put the puhl,c mmd at
rest.
It appears th~t, aside from the hope
of reas,urmJ .1 Jitter} populace, the Air
Fo'.·ce, in embarking upon this under
~krn(!', had ani or all of three thrn.zs
Ill mrnd. It may well have shared the
civili.rn C~>ncen: over what, if an} thin:r,
the Russians m1~ht ha\·e to do with the page 62
reported phenomena, and it may even t,
han~ felt that to frisure a thorou.,.h,,0111 ,,
~ ~ ~
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'.
• I
fore. '7:L. off," hes:
have nothing to do
,f:a
saucers· I'll swear t(. "'"'
Russians
1 a stack of
..-
tenant G overnor Donal<. A": ' " --
.
,1t.-~
so-called .of Idabo, disclosed that . . \if": he
had seen a comet-shaped uojec, l1ling
Bibles,' if you like. Sec ond, we. don't over the western p.:trt of the state. It
have any secret new t)"I' -es of aircraft finally dipped below the horizon, he
that could have started all 1 ~his commo said. (Later on, the personnel of Proj
tion. Third, nobody, in ourc .pinion, has ect Saucer decided that the Lieutenant
spotted space ships fro~ s ome_ othe_r G overnor had been looking at either
planet. Fourth, everything our investl Saturn or Mercury.) Four cops in P ort
o-ators learned has been made available land, Oregon, saw a group of discs
0 "wobbling, disappearing, and reappear
to the pu bl.1c."
ing."
HE first saucer iro,cident occurred Reports of other phenomena having
T on the afternQ<''n of J une 24, 1947,
when Kenneth Ar,nold, on a business
been
papers
seen in the skies appeared in the
almost daily. Two Army officers
trip for a Boise, Idatho, firm that makes at Fort Richardson, Alaska, reported
1 fire-control equipr ent, was flying his seeing a spherical object flying through
p..,~.i\'C•., .roe from ' .:::h~halis, vVashing the air at incredible speed and leav
ton to Yakima, \~ /ashmgton. The re ing no vapor trail; some fishermen off
fle;tion of a brigt 1 t fl ash on one wing Newfoundland saw a series of aerial
\
caught his eye. J- . l e turned and, at a flashes, silver to reddish in color; a lady
distance he tho ught was about twenty in Oregon watched a group of saucers
miles saw what he took to be nine tail spell out "P-E-P-S-r," and alerted her
less ~ircraft hr ,ading toward Mount neighbors to the presence of foreign
Rainier «T ._ _could see their outli~es quite agents practicing a secret code in our
\ : .•only against the snow," Air Force skies; an Oklahoma City man saw a
Intelligence quoted him as saying. saucer "the bulk of six B-29s;" and
"They flew very close to the mountain a prospector in the Cascade Moun
tops, directly south to southeast, down tains of Oregon saw six saucers in a
the hog's-back of the range, flying like group, banking in the sun-"round,
geese, in a diagonal, chainlike line, as silent, and not flying in formation ." On
if they were linked together ... a chain the Fourth of July, there were twelve
of saucerlike things at least five miles reports of saucers in widely separated
long, swerving in and out of the high parts of the United States. One of
mountain peaks. They were flat ... and these saucers, sighted at Trenton, New
so shiny that they reflected Jersey, was traced to a
the sun like a mirror." Ar fireworks display. Dr. Paul
nold said he watched the Fitts, an Ohio State Uni
saucers for three minutes versity psychologist who
and estimated their speed at was for a time attached to
ahout twelve hundred miles Project Saucer, considered
an hour. this crowded condition in
Air Force technicians, the holiday skies the result
consulted by newspaper- of mass suggestibility, the
• men, said that any object same jumpy trait that
moving that fast would be caused Americans to see
invisible to the nakeo eye at Zeppelins overhead during
Arnold's estimated distance. and after the First '\Vorld
The press scoffed at Ar War. "Our graphs ~how
nold's story, and he was re that saucer incidents al
sentful. "Even if I see a w ays increase dramatically
ten-story building flying after publicity," he has
through the air, I won't since told me. "The sky,
say a word about it," he de you know, has been a
clared, and when he got source of exciting visions
hack to Boise he wrote a series of ar from time immemorial, and its attrac
ticles about his experience for a mag tion is particularly strong in our jittery
azine called Fate. moments."
No sooner were the skeptical news
paper accounts printed than dozens of
people turned up with similar re F ROM the beginning, the officers in
charge of Project Saucer recognized
ports. Another resident of Boise spotted a peculiar difficulty in their assignment.
a disc over that city, "a half circle in "H you look out the window and see page 64
shape, clinging to a cloud and just as something, how can I prove or disprove
bright and silvery-looking as a mirror what it was if I didn't see it and you
caught in the rays of the sun." Lieu- can't tell me much about what you
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saw? " Major ·e ~ ~gs, who was
.. '
I then the chief - 3<1. 1ficer between
, v r ight Field and tl. 1igh command
in \ Vashington, said to me one day
reeo,Jelwnge,-... shortly after Project Saucer had pre
sumably become a thing of the past.
-~vietrola''43 " It would be different if flying sau
cers were known to exist. Then we
could have collected evidence indi
cating the degrees of probability that
such things were sighted and the reaso11
for their appearance at a given place.
But it is impossible to prove, logically
and with finality, a double negative
that is, that there arc no flying saucers
and that people have not seen flying sau
cers. The best we could do under the
cir cumstances was to deduce, first, from
Complete Model the fact that it had not been proved, that
phonograph, 45EY2,
AC. "Golden Throat" $34.95 saucers had been seen and, second,
lone system. (suggested list price) from the fact that r easonable theories
• Plays up to 14 records at one loading could be advanced to explain away all
• The only reco rd a.nd changer designed the re ports of seeing them, that probably
for each other
nobody had seen them at all. The
• Records change from the center-the
modern way fewer the theoretical explanations and
• focludes $6 worth of RCA Victor a]. the less plausible they were, the more
bums a(no extra charge. reason there was fo r suspecting people
Other " Vic trola" 45 record changers had seen saucers." The Major shook
as low as $16.75. his head, and continued, " I t's a difficult
concept to grasp, but so was the job we
On& R(;A ViCTOR were tackling."
mahes the'-Uetrola:' ~ ~ ti I asked Major Boggs whether ther e
Tmks. ® DivUioo of &dio Corporation of America was any way to account for the epidemic
LOVELY TO LIGHT BY . of reports of strange celestial objects.
"Of course there is," he replied. "If
you look up at the sky long enough, you
A cande la brum of can almost always make out something
Ita lian wrouaht
Iron In atylized there that appears strange. And more
flower and leaf
desion n t off by
people are looking up now than ever
delicate. scr oll• before. Kids don't count freight cars
work and finished
in silvery black
any more; they count airplanes. People
for dramatic who were trained in air observation
contra.st with
white u...ndlH. during the war have gone right on
Height 9\12",
8" across. $7.50
observing. Also, the public hasn't for
Postage .SO. gotten that the atomic bomb was kept
welt of Miss..75
No c .o . D. 's pleue.
secret from it for three years. T his
o oen S atur day 9 .5 time, people want to know what's cook-
'
ft1tte; ing, so they look up." Major Boggs
HOUSE OF ITALIAN HANDICRAFTS sighed . " T ime was when people used
217 £ u t 49th S t .. New York 17. P L 9•6510
to make a wish if they saw a shoot
ing star. Now they telephone the Air
Force."
Major Boggs and I pondered t his
unromantic age in silence for a moment.
T hen 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. "I can't even
come close to estimating the number of
commer cial and m ilitary aircraft up
1
there a t any given moment. T hen, there
are more than fi ve hundred outfi ts of
Il At leading f urniture ond deportmen t stores.
Send 3-cent ,tomp to Dept. N for booklet.
one kind or another that release balloons page 67. 68
from time to time. These range from
UNION- NATIONAL, DIC. • JAMESTOWN, N. v..,, simple weather balloons, nr • -~er than
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; had bt·han•tl like ;i norn,tl .1iraaft
in ~hl' way it <li,1pp-A:.&1 thl· lme
of,i!!ht. ~
.. ' H·cre, the expert,- profc,,ed to hope,
\\ a, ,omethinf! Proje(t ·~ 1c -r, ,.ild ,..et
ii... teeth into. T he whole fhing-saucer
m~ ,ttT} mi;ht he e,plained: The fir:.t
,1ep wa, tu determine whether thl b
jcct wa, an aircraft that had been par
tialh· oh,cured b\· a cl. u<l , r wh, -.e
.1p~arance had !ie'en <li,torted by a r:iin
Morm. T \\ o hundred ,1nd twenl)-five
<. nlian and militan tli:!ht <cheduk""
were analrzc:d, and· ,t was found tliat
one other· plan~, an .-\ir Force C-{ i,
had been near the Eastern airliner at
the time the nt} ,teriou:, object \\,I!>
,i!!hted. Conjecture about tlte C-4i
hqran to appear irrele, anr, however,
when the .\lac, n ground ere.: \ h ."reed
with Ch le, and \ \ 'hitted th1t the thing
the_1 h.ul -..een \\,I!> .!oin6 much fa,ter
than two hundrc:<l mile, an hour, tn<l
,o, . unlc:,, it dawdled around .,ome
wherc, woul<ln 't han: taken "n, thin,!
like an hour to get from \Iacon to
:\Iont,..omeq .
•·\...tro111 ~tr-. went to work on the
problem. Dr. H rnck considered the
po-...ihilit) that a brilliant, ,low-m, , inJ
rmtl1 r mi:!ht he the explanation. Vari
Cllh hih of the apparition\ de,cnption
ent·11ur.1.!cd thi, notion-"oran.!C-red
tla1m:," :'ci~ar-,hapcd," "a tremendous
hur-.1 of flame.'' U nfc rtun.m:-1}, th
lli~ht ••<.'hedulc,, of meteor, are not avail
:,hle, and D r. H } nek had no mean,, ot
1c:,1in:! hi, h)pothe,i,. "It will ha,e to
he ldt to the P"} chologi:.h to tc.:11 u~
\\ hcthci- the imrncdi; tc trail ' - bri,.ht
mtte"r could produce the subjecuve im
prc-..., ,n of a ,hip \ \;th 11,..hteJ w 1n
<l11\\',-," he \\ rote in a report on his
finding,. Th'- p-,_1 chologi,,t exprc:..-.cd
the opinion th t ·1 m tc >r c ,uld n Iced
l•e m;,t;1kcn for a ,pace ,hip. Dr. Fitts,
the Oh, St.,t P-.) '- 'to ,Ji,t, .:,-e ·,cd
that hoth Ch 'le, ;1nd \ Vhitted were
human ~nd therdort ,1,, I kel} co he
, icrim, I m.,,s ,ue!!e,.tibilirr a, anv-
one cl"-". D r. F111,~;ol<l me <luring a
t.1lk I h.1J \\ 1h him that p-;1·cholo;?:·,ts
are u-,cd to 1he fact that eve,; peopl~ of
h;gh mt·nt.11 calibre often mah mi,,
t:i~e, about what thc1· see. ".-\).., , I
\\ ,,uld like to make th~ point that pilots
are trained to in,trument,," he: iJ.
" T l1ey gnm n·ry dependent on tho~
•- rrument,, :iml I don't know whether
re ncce,-,1nly ,upt ri ,r h.., ners
out them. I <lo know that durrng
L •.: war, when I \\ a, in tht .-\ ·r F Jrcc, ,_
pilot,- frt·qm·ntl) ga~-e ~ me pretty 1 ,dd page 69 , 70
rcporh of what the) 'd ,-.cen while fl)
in!! their mi.....ion,-. '' Ch le, and \ \'hitted
1·e;d il.1 azreed that th ir report might
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I ir S .. rout ne patrol for ti• ~ or:l;) ,1_
k< ta :-..ar onal Guard, and ju
port for de.1rance to Luid when he •,aw
;ccd
the t, \\·er at the Fargo .\lunicip:tl Air
what x-emcd 10 he another plane.-\ tail
light a thousand _rard, a war. He queried
the 10,,cr, and the men there rep.>ned
that the onh othu ,·rcraft o,·er the fidd
\I.«::, a Pipe/Cuh. G ,rman could :-.ee the
Cui, plainh utlined below him. Curi
ou,, he flew toward the light. " It wa::,
ah. ur ,ix to ci:!ht inche, in diameter,
dear,, hire, and complerelr r ,ond, with
a ~rt of fu77 at the edge-.,'' G11rman
later told ill\·e,tigaror,, adding that he
'1W ''no outl:ne , ,f :in} thin~" around
the t.:dge,. " It wa, blinking on and off.
•h I approached, ho\\ e,·er, the light ,ud
denlJ became ,re:idr and pulled into
a ,harp left hank. . . . I dh·ed after it
and hrou;!ht my m.1nifold pre ure up
HIGHBOY DESI( in genuine to ,iMr inche,, bur I couldn't catch up
SOLID mahogany from 1he Sru with the thing. It ~tarted ~inin~ alti
Arli•8fo11 Group b>· Kling. A
distincti,e addirio n ro an,• roorn. tude and a.?ain made a left bank. I put
At leading srore~. • mJ F-5 I into a ~harp rurn and tried
to cut the li!!ht off in it, turn. Br then,
f°ull ccofor hooU.-t, , ·our Brei. ,,e were at about ~\·en thou-and feet.
rooe aoJ You·· conuiins h.-lp(ul
1u,tacs,ioo1 on cbc c-are of fur-.. Suddenly it made :i ,harp right turn
a.,.~ anJ brtlroom dttor:atioo .1nd \\·t· headed '-trai~ht at each other.
and •rrancrm.-n, . Sc-nd 2,, ,n
coio to Khng fanories, O.Cpc. ) '9,
i\lay"lJ.lC', N. Y. JU::>t when we were~ about to collide,
"lJNG ML\.~s ~\~ I ~Ul"::, I Jot scared. I went into a drve
and the li~ht pa~scd on•r mr canopy at
about fi\"e hundred feet. T hen it made
.; left cirde about a thou'1nd feet abo\"e,
..nd I :!a ,·e cha:,e again." Gorman fol
lowed the li;!ht up to fourteen thou::,..1nd
ftet, where, after another near colli,ion,
hi:, :.hip went into a power ,talJ and the
li;;ht di-..1ppeared to the nonhwe:.t.
Gorman noticed no "Jund, or exhau t
trail odor:,. He had gunned his plane
up to four hundred mile, an hour with-
11ut gaining on tht· liiht. I t ,,·:h able to
maint.1in an l'Xtrcmdy ,teep an,;le of
a~:em, far :?rearer than that of hi, A.ir
F ,rce fi.;hr~r. " \\'hen 1 ~ttempted to
turn \\ ith [the li~ht J, I blacked our
temporarily, due to exce...,.fre ,peed," he
:.aid. " I am in fairly good phJ-ical condi
tion and I do not bclie,·e there are many,
jf an}, pilot., who could with,tand the
turn and ,peed effected hr th:ir li;ht and
retn.J.in conxiou . "
Projen Saucer ~u,pcctcd th.u G ,r
m..n wa::, nlting witl1 a Wt:ith.-r h.;Jlvvn.
For one thing, it learned tliat the f'ar o
Weatht.:r !L1tion had relea,-ed a lighted 6
balloon onlr ten minute,, before Gor
man':, patrol ,topped being routine.
The ohjeer'!> steadr, practit"allJ , c rtical
climb sugge~tcd the beha\ ior of a bal par,t, 71, 72
loon. A technrc1an ,, h1, once ,~orkecl on
Project Saucer t,,!c.f me recently that
chasing a weather balloon with an arr
plane 1s comparable to dr\ rng to the
bottom of a pool after a hollow rubber
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.nan) s:\Uccr~ &e·
..
holJing one Ill m} 0 '11111'
·,en I'm
he ~:ml.
.. . The rancher forwar , find to
,vri!!ht Field, where it wns 1<lent1fied a~
a remnant of one of the incendiary bal
loons the hopeful Japanese dispatched
across the Pac:rfic during the war in an
effort to start forest fires.
Even pictures taken o[ supposed snu
cers failed to impress the experts. There
was the case of a man in Phoenix,
.r\rizona, who spotted a flat gray oh
ject spiralling up and down 111 the sky
at a speed thnt he estimated at between
four and five hundred miles an hour.
Ile snapped two pictures of it with his
Brownie. Prints were rushed to Project
Saucer, and Dr. Irving Langmuir, the
ph} sicist and a obel Prize winner, was
asked to study them. The distingm..,hed
scientist learned that a thunderstorm
had occurred just before the picturc
taking, and concluded that he w:is look
ing at a couple of rather poor ~hots
of a piece of paper being buffeted hy
the wind.
A S time went on and the skies, appar
.fl. ently, continued to teem with fly
ing saucers, the generals in the Penta
gon, warming to their rnc;k, decided to
enlarge the scope of the invcstig:ition.
Commanders of all Air F orce in~talla
rions in the country were ordered to
as,ign Intelligence officers to look into
sightings reported in their areas. The
officers were instructed to <;0licit the as
sistance of municipal police officials, who Thi, cozy collon "pillow" for
might he familiar with the pcrc;onalities your body cooxe, ,weel ,leep
from herd mollreut• ond in•
of the saucer ob5ervers. The F.B.I. was ferior bed,. Speciol boon to
al'-0 called upon for assistance, and as involid, ond oged. Eo,y lo corry
signed agents to help interview people oul ond ,un. S17.9S in blue-&•
while ACA, S 19.95 in ro,e, blue
who reported that they had seen discs. or grHn domo,k, full or lwin
The agents uc;cd a stand:1rd question 1i•••• ,hipping chorge• prepoid. Ab
•oltJr• So,;,
naire, drawn up by Air Force Intelli Immediate shipmenl - Guoront••d loction
gence, which called for such informa
tion as the saucer's size, speed, color, DIRECT MATTRESS CO. "W•frudrmork Sell Sl e
and maneuvers. The information wa'l
usually transmitted to ,vright Field,
but some stories were so obviously
false and some "evidence" so obvious
ly trifling that the F.B.I. men didn't
even bother to fill out the question
naire. In Seattle, for instance, an
alarmed woman called the police to in
form them that a flarnin~ d,~c had land
ed on her roof. The object turned out
to be a hollow, drum-~hape<l affair
made of pl} wood, with "USSR" crude ,n New Yor.:
Iv dauhed on it in paint. \n F.B.I. man C.,ty 01 Peri,
found that a turpentine-c;oaked cloth 11'1 Son Fronc,,co,
had c1used the flame. A pr:ictical jnkc., Phelps l or•o
he decided. . \ farmer near Danforth, • los Argelesi
lllinois, reported that a s.-iuc r had
crash-landed in one of hi fields and EXETER Hosiery
burned uo a natch nf Wf'f'tl" Thr P B T
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. ' nn the retina and moviI1g as the eye
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Other elements of tht: u. , ,roblem
were studied by such men as Dr. George
Valley, a nuclear physicist at the Massa
chusetts Institute of T echnology; staff
members of the research firm of Rand
Corporation; an assortment of physicists
and aerodynamicists who specialize in
the study of the stra tosphere and the
space beyond it; and the electronics ex I
•
perts attached to the Cambridge Field t'
'
Station. T hese men were all searching ,•
for physical rather than psychological
explanations, and some fairly strange •,'
theories occurred to them-the possibil ,
I
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ity that extraterrestrial animals were
Aying into our atmosphere, for example. l
( o 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. They
even speculated on whether the anti
gravity shield that H. G. \Velis thought
up for his novel "The First Men in the
Moon" would work; it wouldn't, they
decided. T he supposition that interplan
etnry craft were whizzing in at us was
also discredited, despite its popularity
with laymen. Space ships, the scientists
thought, would have to be so large and
un wieldy that they couldn't possibly zig
zag as frivolously as the reported saucers
did. Besides, a space ship, regardless of its
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 A merica
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,
bolides, and achondrites from the
stream of objects people were seeing in
the skies, had also thoughtfully con
sidered our planetary neighbors. The
old question of the possibility of life on
f OA STORE Nt AR
Mars took on a new urgency, and a new
f
WRITE HAYMAK ER$ 8Y AVOH, [
corollary: If there arc living creatures • 1 WEST 3HH ST, H EW YC
on Mars, would they be capable of Ollt S l:NO CHl:CK OR MONCY OltOUt 011111'.Cl"LY T pap;e 75, 76
building space ships? The astronomers
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that-th .t \d le th info~m:uion t!lc1
give 1,1e may be mad1• : 1 t their
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] amcs nc\"er will be." ~ n . case,,
Captain Ruppelt said, in\"estigation
'las ~hown that the people he has inter
viewed had been deceived by thing,
that have been decei\"lng others all
;dong-balloons, planes, meteor:;, and
,o on-but a nettling residue of around
twenty per cent of the ca-.e, ha\'e wound
◄
up in that exasperating old pigeonhole
labelled "Unidcntific.:d." X othing, for
l'\ample, could be fou nd to account HAVE YOU GRASPED
tor the ''...omuhing sih-er} directl}
overhead" reported by a mystified Civil
•\ eronautics Administra tion inspector at
THE ~outbtuick IDEA?
T erre H aute. A commercial pilot who,
tlring near Ba ttle C reek, l\,Jich1gan, H erc is tailoring so completely flexil
•potted " an O\"al-shaped ,il\'er object" 11a/11ralthat the comfort contrast is r ei
,thead of his ship, po~ed a simila rly un markable. Once you experience the blissf
<;<>lved problem, as did a highly respected and casual distinction of SU P ERFLEX co
naval officer, stationed a t the dirigible tion, you'll never go back to over-stuffed
ba,;e a t L akehurst, New J ersey, who re styled clothes. Suits from S70. Sports
ported that he had stared through his from S55.
binoculars a t a brilliant image making
turns tha t were far too tight for an}
known aircraft. PAUL STUART, INC. ARTH UR L.
No, Yo,. C111 Boston
Twenty-five per cent of the observ WARNBR & COMPANY JOH N WANAMA"
8•/trmort, M d. p1,,1.,,,
cn, interrogated by the Aerial P henom S ILVERSTO NE'S ROBERT 11
ena Officer in the last two and a half ""·••ic- ,v,,, s.,. F,11nc
} ears have been milita ry pilots. E ight FtJr 110,n in orb,
per cent have been commercial pilots, G RI ECO IROS . , Inc . , 200 f if t
,om e with as much as twenty yea rs' ex
perience in the air, and at one stage in
the current phase o f the investigation,
nen a few physicists at L os Alamos,
'\Tew M exico, men who make a feti~h
of objecti\·ity, were interviewed after
they reported ha\ ing seen puzzling
li~hts hovering above their ato mic
energy laboratorie:-. " If you took
any one of these inciden ts by itself,
it might not mean much," Captain
Ruppclt said. " But in view of the
number and calibre of the informants,
rou couldn't help ta king their cla11n s
'"nou~I r."
In February, 195 1, D r.
L1ddel, a nuclear physicist attached to
the Office of l\'a\"al Research, at '\Va,h
ington, D.C ., declared that at last,
"thank~ to the lifting of certain --ecurity
rc~trict1011s, he could provide the solution
to che mptcr} of the lh 1nJ ,·mcc.:rs:
T hey were ''sk} hooks," he said-hal
l ins a hundred feet ·11 diameter, wluch
the Navy had secretly been sendin~ up
for the pa,t four years in order to
study cosmic rap. D r. L iddel's ru-,cr
rion w:i~ immediately disputed hr D r .
.-\nthon} 0 . \ Iirarchi, who, a:; f. rmcr
head of the Air F orce's A tmospheric
Compo<t1on Bure.tu, h td a~,1sted m the
diagnosis of Project Saucer reports. D r.
,\Iir re-hi sa'd he the ught the ~:rnccn,
mig ht he m is,iles from some foreign
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fourtec~ minutes, Pierm:i.1A wA •
MAR_~ . bri(!'ht lights tha t resemh1W ta~
sh~oting stars, hut three o f them were
CR()SS ,_ blJUaJiJ moting horizontally, unlike a ny shoot
Fifth.Ave. atSSIA, N . Y. 22 ing star he hnd ever seen. A nother com
mercial pilo t who was reached in flig ht
l nenr b) said that he saw a light off his
left wing; Ba rnes found a corre~ponding
pip on the radarscope. Other pilots in the
vicinit\ repon e<l, howeH r, that they
could sec nothing unu~ual. T oward
daybreak, ten pecu~lia r pips were counted
,1multnneously on Barnes' screen.
" There is no other conclusion I can
reach but that for six hours on the
morning of the twen tieth of J ulJ there
were a t least ten unidem ifiahle ohjects
movin(!' above \ Vashington," Barnes
wrote: " They were no~ ord inary air
cra ft. • • • or in my opinion could a ny '
The Mark Cross na tural phenomena account for these
spots on our radar. N either shooting '
OXFORD SHIRT :,tar~, electrical di:,turbances, nor clouds •
\lore popular than ever - even for could, either. Exactly what the) arc, I •
cit)' wear - the button-down collar don't know. row J ou know as much •
•hirt in finc~t oxford, woven with
full>• combed yarn. Button cufie, about them as I do. And you r g uess is •
1
11 (!-171.~ collar. 32-35 •lt't'•c. Whitc as good as mine."
or blue. •s.so :.\ week la te r, at 9:08 P .M. on '
With it - an rn1por1ed bilk kn it tie J ulr 26th, the A ir R oute T raffic Con
ha nd-framed for \lark Cro~~- Blad .. trol Center's radarscope again showed
navy, grey, brown, jp'ecn, winc-. •a.so
unidentifiable object:, over \Vashing
,IIail and phoM ordtr1 ~/l~J. SU 7-40()()
ton. So did the screen a t the .\ndrews
Air Force Base, j ust outside the capi
ta l. T wo jet interceptors, capahle of '
lf't do111g six hundred m iles a n hour,
It's were dispatched from a hase nea r N e w
Here! Hew! Ca\de, D elaware, to 111vest1gatc. \Vhen
the interceptor:. appeared on the radar
scopes, the) were g uided towa rd the
objeers. One of the pilots sighted
-~ ~ four lights approxima tely ten miles
111 front of his plane and slif!htly a bove
~ tt, but the) vani, hed while he was
tr} ing to o verta ke them. Twenty
minutes later, he s."lw "a steady white
TOY BAGPIPE light," hut within a m inute it, too,
Easy to Play-only $4.98 disappeared. " \ Ve ha \•e no evidence
Cum1>l<-tc with blo\\ piJlt, <lroncs, chauntu, hri11l11
they were Rying saucers," a n Air Force
plaid l,aa •ncl ribl,on1, this .-nsy-10-pl,,y , \ m rican repre~entative said later. "Con versely,
Oaarirw, i• an :u11ht111ic rcplicA of the Scotch in we have no evidence they were not
-.;trumtnt , hut !l<>un,I~ mtllo,,cr and ~,,·t\:t ~r. An,>ont·
can lean i lo pfay 1101•ubr tunt.. in a m.1ttc;r of min firing saucers. \ Ve don't know what
utts just by r<-:,ding numbcra, ~l;ide of \\38hablr the) were."
S t)"rcnt: :rnd \ 'inylik, it•, '3(c, ...anit.ary and Mron".
Fa:--cinatiul' fun-mal cr for chiMrcn .and gro"'n u,,..
•\ s a re~ult of these two incidenfa,
•,t 1-.art1c-s an,1 famil)' 1ongfc.:~t-.i. Sa11~foct ion guaran• pa rticula rl) the one in \'Oh in~ the inter
,~~d or )Our monc) bacL. Scn,t ch«k ur n1onc-y order ceptors, public agitation reached a new
1or only s • .98 (inclutles how to•r•L1y , unir fol,kr) 10:
heig ht. The Air F orce was bomba rded
TIMESAYERS DEl'T., Dept. NY-9 with hundreds of lette rs, telephone calls,
2 West ◄ 5th St. New York 19, N. Y.
and telegrams demanding in formation
MRS . KARO'S and o ffering advice. One of the :.mailer
airline:, supplied ih crews with ca meras
HAND LAUNDRY 160 EAST 62nd STREET
a nd ordered them to photograph any
saucers the) encountered. A civilian
TE'mpl•t°" 1•6516
Sp•ci• lish in •ilh , tecu , l•blt llnens, shirts;
wrote to the Air F orce that he would nar,e 79 , 80
• I mod •r• I• r•lu let it in on "the secret" in return for a
Lo11nd•rlng for f h fino,f • om•• colonelcy. A Los Angeles p.1stor wrote
to Ein,tein, he~eechin~ him to clear up
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tronomers, whom J ' r"1 lled "our best
advisers . . . in • •~ss of visitors
..
from elsewhere, ~ ;aph the sky
continuously, but they had reported no
saucers. The G eneral 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 tl1e 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 anytl1ing that we can
understand"-and utilizing it under
conditions in which no mass is involved.
As for the latter, the G eneral told the
press, drawing a laugh, " You know,
what 'no mass' means is that there's
nothing tl1ere."
W HILE General Samford's inter
view probably reassured the pub-
lic as evidence that the Air Force was
still on me job, it did nothing to lessen
the nation's saucer-consciousness. The
reporters had hardly rnanked the Gen
eral for his comments when, on Au
gust I st, a Coast Guard photographer
produced a picrnre showing four bizarre
lights burning brilliantly in a daylight
sky. He said he had taken it over Salem,
Massachusetts. The next day, a H ar
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, creato6 the equivalent of flying
saucers in his laborat0ry 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
page 81, 82
conditions of the earth's atmosphere,
high or low, whi~h would duplicate,
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Contents from • . .• ,
ERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ~
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Date October 6, 1952 Case References INVESTIGATION OF POSSIBIE £ /
Directorate of Special Invest. UNIDENTfFIED FLYING QBJt:'CT
Consigned t al!he Inspector General
Department of the Air Force, The Pentagon
, ashington, D. C.
Att: Mr. Gilbert R. Levy
List of Contents •
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Ql through Q6 Mr. Conrad, 7142
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Mr. Parsons, 7121
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STANO.V,D f"0ffM NO, 114
..OffiCe•Memorandu "
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO : MR. DATE: October a,.,.~
FROM
V. P. KEAY f ~~
SUBJECT: OFLYING SAUCER$
Reference is made to an article which appeared in
"Th w Yor~er" dated September 6, 19 , which is attached. ~ ! , '-
Thi ticle which was written by D:Lnie ang contained
inaccurate information regarding FBI inves gations, indi !.. r.r_ _
cating that the FBI conducts certain inquiri s regarding
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
pr esent agreement ha_s been set up with the Air Force whereby
the Air Force conducts all investigations pertaining to .flying
saucers and the Bureau, upon receiving complaints of this nature,
merely turns the com.plaints over to the Office of Special
Investigations (OSI), which in turn t r ansmits 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 /lying 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 Br anch,
Counter - Intelligence Division, Office o.f 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 i n that organiaation in order to gather information for
his article.
Col onel c. M. Young, Ezecutive Officer to Major
General John A. Sam.ford, Dir ector of Air Intelligence,advised
that Lang has not-90..TLt_acted.-G.erurr·al ~a!lt/_ord ' s _of_.f.:i,c.e.
~onel Young also telephoni cally contacted Captain Ruppelt
of the Air Technical Intelligence Center, Wright- Patterson
Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, on September 30, 1952. Captain -/r
Ruppelt advised Colonel Young that they have never indicated
in any way to Mr. Lang that the FBI has an interest in flying
saucers. Captain Ruppelt stated that the FBI to his knowledge
has never been called upon to fur nish reports on flying saucers.
Ruppelt is under the impression that Mr . Lang made the story up ,~
j
or picked it up from some maga2ine or newspaper article sometime
back. Both Colonel You ng and Captain Ruppelt are thor oughly /\ W •
familiar with Bureau policy pertainirrp ;o fl~ing ; a~~ c ei P,, ' ~'
?A)Jachments (2) RECOR!)ED - 116 ~ /) ,
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llemorandum /or J,Jr. A.H. Belmont, 10/8/52
Colonel Young suggested that further contact be made with
Mr. Albert Chop o/ the Office o/ Public Information, Of/ice o/
the Secretary of Defense, who represents the Air Force in
public relations contacts pertaining to /lying saucer matters.
Jlr. Chop was contacted and advised that he was familiar
with the attached "New Yorker" maga2ine article. He advised
that Lang had gathered most o/ the material about two years ago
when considerable publicity regarding /lying 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 llr. Chop for further current
information. Jlr. Chop advised that he gave Lang some routine
items of interest regarding /lying saucer complaints and
investigations by the Air Force, but that he instructed Atr. Lang
not to contact the Air Technical Intelligence Center /or further
information from that source. Jlr. 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. J,Jr. Chop advised that he is thoroughly
familiar with Bureau policy pertaining to flying saucer investi
gations,and that he at no time has indicated to any writer or
newspaper representative that the FBI conducts investigations
pertaining to flying saucers. Jlr. Chop advised that, i/ 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 /lying saucers. He
stated that he could make this contact without indicating in
any way the Bureau has contacted him. He was advised that his
of/er o/ cooperation was appreciated, but that it was not
desired that he make such an inquiry at the present time.
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There is attached a current mimeographed form containing
current information regarding the whole /lying 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 ~riters who
make inquiry in the Office of Public Information.
ACTION:
None . For your information.
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ST~WCD FORill NO. 6' • • •
Office Memorandum • uNrTEn sTATEs GovERNMENT
TO llR. A. H. BELJ/ONT O>('>~(}/ DATE: October 27,
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FROM Y. P. KEA r;' ~;_---
SUBJECT: ()FLYING SAUCERS
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Aiz:.. ~Intelligence advised of another creditable and ......_ _
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u11,expl~lnable ~~9.,.hti ng of flying sauc~~s. Ajr .Lot~lli9.ence
still teeLs fly(ng saucers are oetical illusions or a;11t0.a;;, ---
phericaLplJ,,enoml]_n~a _but some Vilit(fry of1icials are ,vriQ,1&;.Qly
lconsidering the,..2~s!ibility of int ~£1anetary ships.
BACKGBOUNJJ:
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 researdh p ertaining to this Rroblem
is handled by the Air Tecbnical Inte-Ingence Center located at
W~i"ht-Patt~ca..eJJ-.A.t Force 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 explainable objects
such as weather balloons, etc., but that a small percentage of
extremely creditable sightings have been unexplainable.
DETAILS:
Colonel a. J/. You~_ Executive Officer to J/ajor General
Jo"!}n A,.. Sam,/o r]t JJi recTJor 07 -Inte11 igence, Atr fore§. adJJ •st{J on
Octqker 2.,, 1952, that a~other recent extremel"11_creditable sighting
had been_!!Ported to Air Intelligence. A, Nauv photogT.!:,J:,_her, while
trauellng across the united States in his own car, saw a number of
ohiec~s in tae. s.1£JI_J]h}.gh appeared to be flying saucers. He tooK
OPJ?roximat~ly thirt,JJ;,jiue Jeet of mozion-picture film of these
ob_,je#t~. He voluntart~y submitted the fiJ.J!:. to Air Intelligence who
had it st~died by the Air Technical Intelligence Center. Experts
at the Air Technical rn;telltgence..Qenter have advised that, a'?t'e'r
care,ful study_ the_re were as many as - twelve to sixteen flying objects
re~orded on t,b~a .f..jlJJJ; that the posstbility o,tweather balloons,
clouds or qlher explainable objects has been comi1e!"'eLy ruled out; /
and that t}u y_a eat a complete loss to explain this most recent / t.J
creditable sighting. The Air Technical Intelligence Center experts
pointed out that they could not be optical tllusions inasmuch as
opt teal lllusions could not be -~•c:rz~ ~ " - ''.!,.· '.PV- .3,t/;.!)
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RE: FLYING SAUCERS
from v. p. Keay
coJoneZ roung ad u,}sed that Ajr Intelljqerw e it-Ult .Cu.J.s
that the so-called JllUi'l}1LSaucers are either optical illusions or
atmos~heri C.J!J...Jifilrnomena. He pointed out , no112e uer, tbrtf; ,sQ:?Pe
MiLit H/ Af.!\cjals a.z:e seriouslu consid~ring the possibtlity of_
i~terpfgnetfry ships.
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TO : lffi . A. , . BELMONT Dt_E : December 5 , 1 52
FROM: V. P . KEAY
~UBJ...,C ... t) PROPO.SED 3TuDY ON THE
11 FLYING SIDJ(,..t!,RS 11 PHENOMEhA ;
L1TELLI 1 ,_ (,,:., ADV .LS )RY COb..1•1L'.1 TEE
Pursuant to instr~cti~ns , Su,ervisor M.W. Kuhrtz of t~e
Liaison uection attended the Intelligence Advisory Lommittee (IAC)
meeting on December )1 , 1952 .
~one of the ugenda i terns are of direct inter·e t to the Bureru ;
however , ::)r . F . M. Chadwe J. , centrtl Intelligence Agency (LI\) , directv<l
the me- Jf.rs r L ttention to some aspects· of the "flying :;,£ UCt ..~.., " oheno
11
mena . He said that a recent nre entat·on of a theory on "saucers w... s
made by n Germtin atcmic scientist, w 1 cri feet hrs ct.sea t.he Llritish to
initiate con iferable intelligence effort into this m tter . Accor inG
1
to. r . Chadwell , efforts are being mEde to obtain the tierrn~n 11
scientist
11
s
oaner on this t11eory . ,\lso , it was stated th.rt recent saucers obser
vation in Africa oresents Sllme evidence that t'1e 11 saucer~ 11 're not a roe
teorologic~l nhenomeno , J1ich tneory has been held to a~te by the Air
=orce . Instea, , t~is letter incident indicated t1e nossibl lity of the
11 saucers 11 bein5 a scientific dc:,velopment . .1.he detuils of tnis Afric n
obser1ation were not ~re ented ; nowever , an"ronriate contact will be m·de
by the 3u •eau I s Liaison ...>ect ion with the 1~ir Force to determine vhe
deta... ls of t us latter report .
As a result of the above , -i;he 't' ilit&ry mcmb rs sum;ested a
lo7:csl apnroach wnich would call or a gr0up ) f sciEntists to ~eke &
stud;y 1f the new 11 saucers 11 data in an effort t o identify the nhenomena .
If 2n identifica"(;.:on cun Je L-de by t.he -,c . - 1 1.tis ts f nd it can be dett-I'
rr:ined thrt the "sauc, "S 11 Ere a scir ..tific develoDment , "(;hen IAC should
determine a furtheI' course of action for t~e u.~. 0 vernment . It was
further sug e sted that the IAC shou.d onl: c01cet'n itself wit, t.1is m~tt r
on the basis that a compet nt sc:entific _;roup might deter ine the:
0 "e·
" saucers" to be a scientific develonrt1ent unde • the control of our enemy
Dr . Ch1;J.d•rnll wvs directed to drtft a oaoer on this uroblem for "
IAC c nslder·tlon . Unon recc·~t of t~is dra~t , anDroorirte Bureau re
corr.menda tions will 'be mE de nr•ior to IAC an....,r, v 1 .
11
ACT 'r : Liaison will obtt.in the deta:_1s of the "flying s& tcers
observ•ti n :n Afr.:ca from t~ Air Force . · I
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TO : MR . A. H. BELMONT'
•
DAr~ : December 23, 19.52
FROM : 1
• KEAY
SUBJECT : PRO ~
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is de to my ~emor~ndu December~ . 1952 . You will
recall ntelligence Advi ry ommittee (IAC ) meet .g held
December 4, l 2 , >r . H. M. ~h dwe~l , Centr Intellig nee gency(CIA )
directed the nJ,..,,, c 1 0 1 attention t o sorne : spocts of the " fl~ting scucers "
1
ohenomenn . Ee mado rofe once to a or er:tction of a t i ory n " sauc rs"
which d beon made by o Germen ~omic sci nti~t and which fact hl?d
caused the ritinh to initinto con ider bl intelligonce effort
11
into
t e atter . Cho.dwell ul o rnado ref er once to a recent 11 • auce .:; obscr -
v tion in Africa . He cid not furn~sh det ilw on e Afr"c2 nh e~v tion .
Tho Lioioon Agent cont cted es ST' • 1olnh Ll rl , (b) (3) (A)
nd ~ch rd elm. , 11 of the CIA, fort ·~n e f obt Jdition l
details c ncernin the 11 0 1cors 11 repo •t w ch center d • n frica . hese
ln<.lividu ls furnished i form tion r fl c .. ng th t a ew weeks go n
explo ion of ltrgo nrooortion wts picked uo on severe] Lei rrogr nhs and
lt was ndic ted th t tho exolo ion , ~ tered in ce tral f ri c •
Accordin to elno Gnd Cl rk , renort~ of un non r lt bility ere re
ceived indicating that tho oxplosiong might hEvo ewer ~n· rr~m a flying
" ore recent reports received from e bro d ir. 0
t th
~ ~ ~.: ad 1 ,. U'.l of a m t or . (b) (3)(8 )
(b) (3) (B)
The Liaise .r•ge t :n u red regllrding the "sauc r II theory ich
1·eoortoclly wcs prosented by a Ger!I' n c.tornic sc ontist . Cl rk dv1 sed
th t t e re l't on the scienti t hcd not boen I' oc i ved b the CIA as
yet .
ACrION:
t s ·tt r will be follo~ed b: tho Li ion Age t II
rt our
oose of obtaining add t1onal cleta.il. c once ·nin; the 11 0 ucer th cry
of the erman 'cient1st . F
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Dote: Februarv ll, 1953
Director o/ Spec,al Inveattgattona
Th• Inap•otor G•n•r.al
Deparuent o/ the .4 tr Tore•
The Pen ta~on
Washtngtoft 25, D. c.
From: John Edgar Hoover, Director
Q ied•ral Bur•ou o/ Inu•ettgatton
Subject: TLTING DISCS
NISCELLANBOUS - INJ'ORUA TION CONCERNING
There are attoched /or uour tn/onatto~ tn
the captt oned aa tter a Pho:taata t a/ a letter dated
Januaru 20, 1953, rec•tved bu this Bureau fro•
Jfr. Rob•rt D. .,ol/, 19 North Tor•'lfthe Street, Frankl in,
Indiana, wtth th• •ncloaurea re/erred to therein, and o
copv o/ thta Bureau'• r~plv to Mr. 101/.
No tnv••ttgatton ta being conducted bu this
Bureau tn thts Mtt•r•
COMM~ fSI
fEBl 11953
MAILED 30
u f EH 191953
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i\:'~ tr. Robert D. ol.f
19 North Forsythe Btrs•t
rankl tn, Incn:ana
Dear !l.!r. olf:
Your letter dated Januar11 201 1958, h.aa
baen reoetvcd1 together wtt~ encloaurca.
Although I would like to hD o;/ oervtoe
tn conneotton with your request, I would 11kc to
point out that the FBI ts strtctly a /act-findtng
agency and i~ ts not ~ithin the ocope of tts
preaortbed authortty to coke aualuationo or draw
conclusion. as to the character or integr.1ty oj
any organt:,atton or tncuv,dual. I know i,ou wlll
underptand the reason for thin rulo and wtll ap
prooiate my tnabtlttu ~o be of aootstanoe to you
in thts regard.
T1ie lttera'turc and lettor you :.forwarded
are betng returned .
Stnceraly JIOUra,
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"'D cc - New Haven, wtth copy bf tncom.tng and copy o'j' letter
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ATTENTIONSAC'a: (,see 1n.extpage) ~ ~., ~\
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ATTENTION SA.C's: Correspondent also enclosed a copy o.f
the fanuary 19, 1953 issue o.f "t,pace Review", the publication
of The International ~lying Saucer Bureau, indicating the
address as Post f~fice Box 241, Bridgeport ✓ Connecticut.
This small periodical contains news ~f various I.F. S.B.
groups ~hroughout the United ~t ates and England and news
items relating to flying saucers.
No references can be located in Bufiles on the I.r. B. B. ;
"Space Review" or Albert K. Bender .
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• JOHNSON
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL DEFENSE
M □ NR □ E AN D
FRANKLIN,
COUNTY
JACKSON STREETS
INDIANA
I
ROBERT D. WOLF
Director 20 January 1953
Mr. J. Edgar Hoover
Director Federal Bureau of Investigation
tw l
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
I would first like to apologize for writing to you direct, however, I have
cleared this morning with our State Director and he suggests this procedure.
fie have been having some success with our Ground Observation Cor ps as vre have
four ( 4) posts here in the coun~ f. , r , r ,/
Last Fall I was contacted by on~ of our local business men wanting to know if
I would be ir.terested in joining ~nternational Flying Saucer Bureau. I told him
that I would ~nd did join with the idea fully in mind of having the local peopl e who
are interested in Flying Saucers also work in our Civil Defense Program. We are
only too willing to co-oper&te i n any way we can with Civil Defense. The city of
Franklin is approximately twenty (20) miles southwest of Indianapolis. on the dual
lane highway US :{f:31.
f-
I ~ enclosing a letter which was received last October, as well as the current
• issue o~ACE REVIEW. Would like to know if this organization has been cleared or
is subversi ve in any way.
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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 r equir e the enclosures please return them.
~ ~ 1 ~ m'QRtl"ED-S·~
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ALBERT K BENDER
! I ~ ~ gtu«9M, IJWIIJOM lNTEllNATlONAL
Prt sftk,u and .&flurr
"All u pouibu to one who bdiew1" Hl!AOQUAP.TnS
MAX KRENGEL P.O. BOX 2-41
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SttTtUlry
FRED J lH:NDER
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Oc t ober "6, 1952 Hodickl.
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COUNCIL
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Edi , • f>,J,lulK,
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a•ain I am ha,~~ to 1te to you about
GEORGE 0. FAU l TI
and. ur f i ne v,rk 1 1 e l in our or 0 ani1 t 1on
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Coll,t hon ro... larg r a n d str "G~r.
STAN LEY E.. CROl ti
y~ur l ~t l etter you a k d wh t cJur.e of a ct ion
~ r c lu~ shJuld take in connec t on with I F B. I
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FRAN LIN M. DIET .>ul d su ·est the foll o-..: 1n,;:
E,di,o,o o..d f>llbluhn
"Sc:w~ Fanral, Pill (1. ) A pJint a lo cal Cha irma n of the I FSd in
t F
cranklin , Indiana . Also ,ooint a loc 1
• ENTAT IVE
trea3ur e r a nd secre t ry .
Hold your mee t ing t t ice a mont h,
-..ht:r ; u ca i er h p .1ngs and
"""' club
yet , I,
t l V'"l. t l e S •
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al l 11 , or be tter
ach -0thers h me s .
i! au~ ~n y u ~ ~ r ~n 1~y r u ,
cert Ln por t ion of the club mc mJcrship f c
may u r e tai ned ~y yJu t o helo your caur c. -
r . • ck • poe , is an lnternntiJ nal Off1 er
n JF.;,8 an d h aid such r sp ct tall
ur g t h rin
(~ . 1 e wi ll do any o t card rinting JOU d sire or
C~ldu of s i il r eize .
(6. Y u can r i nt r clu b act vit1e in 11
S ace
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(7) . Jet c ontri but ons f r my ur mo r s to h l"
u g t f"r d .
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ALBERT K. BENDEi. P. 0. BOX 241
Pmidns•~ "AU ii pouible to one wllo beliew." BlllOOEPOllT l, CONN.
MAX KI.ENOEL U.S. A.
Vt«-Pra. cmd T,..,_
ALLAN C. '1.\£VMAN
StCfflll"'
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(8) . H ort to IFSB all repqrte and sightings in
jJUr area. How ver, ~ir-ot put the sightings
b ore your grou~ r...nd l t them judge whether
t y are authentic or ~\.
( ) . K ~ R reco u. ~. l c . ~v ~emoers in y~ur area
"1.lld t h ir activities~. tu1 ~s lF~li in concerned.
(10). &.1.n if pos,.iol.e (m,1, lJ a. su 6 t;cs tion), a ta pe
1 ecor dor so that you C&.ll a end actual voice to
IF ,.3 he1 dquarters. In this way , I as Prei:,ident,
c ou ld send mess~ges for )OU t o pl ay at you r local
meetings . I n the future I ay even ) &y your city
a vi si t and attt nd one ot ur meetings.
lhese are all merely sug e~ti,ns !or )UU to ponder over
if you decide to adopt any oft m ple e consult with
Indiana Hepresent, ti ve, Mr. Co oell. After you have
nis , ;et in tJuch with n: e at nee .
sincerely hope that t he s e su~ge stiJn ~i l help you
ng some mcJve ~s t o what ~ our ... ocal .,roup will co ,
Forever Loo ing Up ,
a~JK~J£r
rt K . •iender
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Space Reaiew
Copyright 1953 by A ltT K. BENDER
VOL II, No. I Janu.i.ry, 19' Bridgeport, Conn., U .S.A
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