FBI-UAP-D011: D/FBI Correspondence Referral, 1949

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                                                              REV. CHARLES C. BARNES, PASTOR
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                        Mre J. Edgar Hoover                                                               ·"'
                        Washington D.C .                                                             6189!)     i

                        Dear Mr. Hoover:
                            Here is a bit of information which may be of great signi­
                        ficance, or may be merely an observation of a sientific experi­
                        ment. It may be known by military authorities and the AoEoC. or
                        only a few may have seen it and none reported it to the right
                        place. Here it is. Can you pass it to the rig~t persons?
                            Last May one afternoon I saw four beam~ in the sky passing
                        from the northwest to the southeast and converging in the
                        Cascade mountains. In those four narrow beams small slou.d§ vvere
                        forming. And where the beams met apparently against the mountains
                        a great explosion effect was to be seen. I wou~d say that· they
                        were visible for at least 10 minutes or longer.                   D



                            The sight brought to mind an article read before the war
                        about experiments carried on in Europe with various types of
                        radio beams to effect rainfall. I would guess that I had seen
                        the article. in the Science Digest.
                            The Columbia River flood of last summer and the unusual
                        precipitation this winter have forced me to_feel that this
:I           .·-·       observation of mine should be sent somewhere in the interest
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                            I have one son in the Air Cor~and anothercwbtkg with the
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                        A.E.C. at Hanford which causes me to ptay for peace,· as weli
                        as the fact that as a minister I deplore.the waste and tragedy,
     I1             .   of war. That is one reason that I have fefrained from passing
                        on information and id~as that might incite warlike attitudes.
                            May I add these words to paragraph two. The explosion effect
                        seemed to rise to a height of about ten thousand feet.
                                                                Sincerely,




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