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OBJECT FLYING AT A HIGH RATE 4-_ r • RE( c ,'ED F BI CO'-H.Hlt'1 CHIONS Aue 9 7 4a PM '52 I I-, ;]j . c:') ~ f ....... - -.c., • ' ::0 rn (":, 0:> ,.,.; "° ---o lTl ~ ·-· r -1 • 0 ,H :-t: ===_. r,rt _, t-., r--.., . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . ~ August 11, 1952 llr. Edmond J.1 ane Mauston, Wtsconstn Y ~- Dear JJr. Kane: 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 ooamu nica t e dtreotlv with htm. S incerely youra, Jo hn Edgar Hoover Director Copy by form to A ir For c e Intelligence. - , NOTE: Spec~al Agent Samuel Hard y, EOD 3-28-25, GS-12, $8760, assi gned to Minneapolis. ~;~ Special Agen t Cli nton ,tr. S tetn, ...•iOD~-6-31, GS-15, $10, 8 00 , assi gn ed Division II as inspect \~~ RHD: gr:m.fo .n,..,· /'""' 0 ... ,_ _ . .Mn_ HO O .....__ t..11&hl1.t1_ ,-1. . ...._ ....,_ _ loll O M n _ ,_ AUG 2 O1952! t J • .:.1 • 03~ "3338 Hd BG ZI ZI am r.:? ~ :~1.. 'q ~~-, ,~,i ~ \\-c t. ~-l'Hi • 8-l t • '1 •t ..\ ' ~ 0;I(, ('.., ' \ ~ '.11\\'l~~ t • 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, i J ~ i .t{,:,_,,.~ Ii :.,,J Edmond J . Kane Hauston, v-Jisconsin J ; O . ~ ~ : Personal file RECORDED • 119 ./__ • ,~. ~ ~ z 9 ~ 11 5 .:i~Or ' ijH - t_ ___, 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 __ '!Ohan_ ...... 11ctt<>l•_ lleJaonc_ Cl•&e_ _ .......__ Olavln_ _ ....,_ _ n-u,_ _ .....__ Wu11;hlln_ Tele.,•._ l\lollQMn_ COMM-FBI r••(' I , .~.... ..l .• ' MAILED 20 C l ~ )_ _ 68 AUG 221952 • "t ., ' ' ... ·ra:i .. tr.,Wc5"-, ' \ - j f 0~ 03'JIAt/. ......................, . . . . WC~ S~t!I ~ \ dUA (.i _, J Auguai 13., 1952 Mrecior o/ Special Inueaiigaiiona The Inapecior General Deparimeni o/ ihe Air Force To: 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 matier b'fl this Bureau. At ~ni noC:lf •, R£CORD£D • ll £\.-~ i ~ '/ ~Fer'/- - JarAUG 15 J1954. ~ !'Tl n - C: :.> There is no record tden-t;i/ia nle wt ih'" J([J9ling~ r in ihe Jiles o/ ihe Bur eau EHM: k c 0 {"-,V ....__ 'foleon_ _ llobot . _ 8ol a o n • _ Clea _ _ QlaYin._ _ ..- - ­ " " -­ Tr•c,:_ _ La'\&&h l l n _ "°"'- ­ h\e, b . _ 8 ... 'O 4~H' "°'If' -IU d3l] S ·1 'OfrlJ l J\11 1 \l:t:-)3 I a .:J • 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 has been /urntshsd to uour oJ/tce /or appropriate attftntion. No further action ts cont~m.plated in thts matter bu thta Bureau. ,6 At~ NOTE: - !fl ._. Bureau files fail to reflect any~in~ rmation that can be identified with Mr . Romero. - (.,I.) EbM: Ire __ !Olton_ _ ...... ,_ .......__ SS.bOla_ ,_ . OU.l'ib_ _ --- -·-...., __ t.MCh U . n _ --­ , .••. I l l a . _ lollcaan_ r • .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 P the captioned mot~er. ~ Bu r eau Jiles Jail to r eflect any i,nformati on that can. be i den. tifi~-i· with Mrs. Haufe . en kh/<l, ~I(!' ~ i .t14 y-V ....._ _ I . ' ) ; . . .... f ... SERVICE UNIT ;.;J?,act Spelling ~ All References __subversive Ref. --Main File --Restricted to Locality of FILE NUMBER SERIALS #Jr_ _ l .. Im tia led ,. • S'r,AN.OAR•() FORM NO. 64 Office Memoranduni • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT 8, 1952 HARED Irg-- TO FROM DATE: : MR. R. T.:., : _7F. DOWNI G~ August Tolson_ _ La.Od._ _ cleu_ _ Olavln_ _ :.lchola_ _ kosen_ _ SUBJ~Cef ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION WRITTEN 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--. ~ • . a 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 Agencies . I X)t.~ • Q J 62-83894 rm:jen \ . r,- 7~ 58 SEP 2 1952 \~ Attachm~ "'K~ ~&~~". . .'i,1 (,, ;,_ NC\, /}( \ '(J L; f.}(•• 73 J'Jti"?j- ~ -..:..t.-l;b- [wr- ( G 2v • ~a J AUG 18 195~ nuc \ \ 9 56 ~\.\ ,~,.: ~J:'.C'O f SPIONhGE p RECEIVE D--hARb !l ,\UG t 8 1.: !' S nt=·.. . ,, ~ ~~1.5~r1cr. 10 02 AM '57 HI t- B I LABORATIJRY DlvlSillN .r ) , "' "'\ .... • ., -- . 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-$0 m. On the outer ring i t has about li5-SO aut.Qalatic circular noseles which after the ignition of tho disk circulate around a plexiglasa :;phere 1:n the cent.er in which. the ea'suri.ng and controllin1 dov:tces !or long-distance steering aro located. In the opbere is still sufficient apace for atom bombs. llhase weapons are in Thlaeian hands and can haw an e.ffect1ve range ot ~.3S,OOO km. ffio conatruotor ot v-weapona FJEDEL 1n German7 atated that it concerns • typical v-weapon on which ho hlld worked b111u1elf. I am aure t.hat tbe truth ie better than a pamc among isnoran t people. 'H. SCH. OPIES DESTROVE D .7 O NOV 19 Hl64 • • o/ .Date: To: Dtroctor oJ' ~pecial Snvesttgattons ThD Inspector General Dcp,:rtocnt o.r th Atr F.orce The f>an tcoon oeh:t ngton 25, n. o: c. John ~oar Uoou r 1 trector Federal Bureau o/ Inv~sttoatton litibjec"b: C}LYIN ~~ UOEES DATR !i'hare ts attaol,cd co untcatton whtch ao encloood 0ith a letter dated July 29, l958 fro r . 3ohn Oollow y, JV Clifton Placa, Br oo lyn s. New Yor~. r latluc to the captioned otter. JJr . Gallow y' a letter hao bocn aoknowledo d ~nd he has bee~ 1nJome~ that thtc comt!Untco~ton ha been furntahe6 to your o/-tioe ,tor apprDprtate ott n~t on. ·o further actton ia coritc olated th 'th te natter by 1Jhi ( SEP 13ureau. • • Director, FBI SAC., San Diego (100-856.$) 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) JFS 1jec } ll~-t 3 t 11/1Jtts'frff&MN8-14'7SEP 3' 1952 - --5 SEP 101952 I ij ~ ...... 't -< "1!..S ~_c;- ..,..,,v 7 ') ',:' ,_g ~p ~CJ ~EC0R0EO .. 88 llr• .,,.i. l'l~o '.fml t Route 8 Jackson, Minnesota . ~ { ) - SSDear Jlr. Hof}meue r: 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 ....__ Tobon_ _ .. llo.DOh_ ,_,,_ Cl•IB_ _ 01.U"lb_ _ ---- -·--....,__ --­ Copy of incoming to Dept . of Air Force. In view of c~rrespo•de~; 'a: •f~f~{:h-t~ a "~teady white light" circling their .farm, his letter i s being referred to the u. s . Air Force branoh: vfite~~~~¥ in matters of this type. ,..;I Correspondent's enclosure was <J.-~Tle o.f' what appeared to be \ shredded thin strips of tin foiJ. . h NOTF;: l , IA"Sf)l,n_ hle.Jla._ ,tolloun._ )\\ LH:mnf:ns SEP 8 1952 ,I\J/;~.,l~~?J j / CpM~-• jl ( \ , ) '/JV\ ~ '((~ ~ • I ..... ZS, Nd 6fi g. Zl onv - 3 31L9 0f .iO 'U30 ·s O ·I BJ woo~ ,,1w-~n1,1]')-=l~• ~ a~~J-~~~ /1/.J J. /' r..; Cl l[, L ,. <AL -1/~£<,,-_JJ ~ / . A . t f w • . L... , / ~ ~fc.j~~ . ·zJ(&aL Gv-: ~ u_~ 1 Ye ,S =- / ~ ~/ /?JL ,/A, n lltt ""1 ,J nc.d~ .,,_,/ ?-71-c...~. ./i .'3 , "- ( ...... - • TRUE COPY 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 1. 11 August 20, 1952 RfOROf.D • 126 }NU°'f.0 - 126 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 LH:gr:bkh J)A, .f . .. . • 6 Ca] ifornic. J..,_,_ ust I2th T~ ..! ~ . Hoovsr La.et sunday rcy wife an.l I attented showed tt4 Fl!' i !l. a, 1ove i nl.) pict'L!.re .here they I 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 Sine a rely Jchn E . I~an It--; ~o . V rrr.ont 6 Ca.li!~crnic:. Led ln_elee - 311 ·- t. t,. August 5, 1952 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. 7_ c • -r----l7 9 JFS:ha \71 SE • r-~_f _ rvNOT RECOR D ED }4,J .;t1J 3 1952 INITIALS ON OR!G!NAL • • Direcotr, FBI Ref 8-5-52 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 . - 2 - , August 25, 1952 j ·nE_ghROE0-14 ~ Jlr. c. & Choinskt Koshkonong, J/tssourt n Dear llr. Choinski: ;,, \hOf~ED - • 4 ~ ~(, 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. ....__ Toltou_ _ LH:pa:bkh r - ·­ W.lebot . _ C legg_ _ ..,..,_ _ Olnin_ _ ftOeen_ _ fo • ' ',-+ --\--,--\--~-\:----- -~- - --- -- - - - -- T / ~- • - - ~ - - ' l - - - _I{:..,_ _ _ O~ ~--- - g jd_~ -~ ------ \- i_ i--- _-- e\ a' -_---~ -jE C i-;" --~.~----r-1-- - - __ -{,--(~~------r-4 - - ) - ~ - _-: : • _ ----r-----,,---- _..!..........;~~~;........____::~ .............. 1.....1.....~~ ~ . . . . . . : . . . . . . . _ . . : ; - - - - ' - - - - = - ~ - ~ - ]\tr l<StJ - - - ~-- - ~ - !-----~- - -- 9Y - --~--------,l~-----;R -ECORD-ED-1-f - , / •·--r ---- ,'t A __, < IJC-3~--t Q St --'-------\ ( ;, d L ,4 ___.(? _ &_ - - 3/~ - -' l l -~ -~-r~ _.. • ,,,. .... ~---------- - -------- -- --- - ---~--------- --------- ---- __ ..,...,. - --------- ~-~- • ---- - ----- - - - _J - - - -------,,,-- - ------ -~--- - -- -- - -- ------~ ~ -_n__ -'----"_~- ---~ 6 1ii__ -tl l I} - ---+---::-.--------::--- - - - - - - - - - - - - i - - - - - ---------------.,-- -- STANDARD l'ORM NO. 84 ' • Office Memorandum • uNrTEn sTATEs GOVERNMENT DATE : FROM Jlr. If. A. Brantgan ) fP.. SUBJECT: FLYI NG DISCS August 22, 1952 _~n1// j27/ TOlson_ _ Ladd_ _ Clegg_ _ 0lav1n_ _ Nichol s _ Rosen_ _ ~acy_ PURPOSE: _ Harbo_ _ To recommend existing ins t ructions to the /ield re fluing discs be called to the attention o/ the fteld . Be!Joon t _ Mohr_ _ 1'ele. Room_ Nease_ _ Oe.ndy_ _ BACKGROUND: ,, A review of communtcattons recetued from the 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. EJIJI: 1rc:me a / C RECORDED • 3t 71 SEP 101952 ) ? lt> • ,,:,•}) :ti ,"T1 1."? ~ ....., t"t"I "'{" ) ) 0 ',:,r, .z:: m r, J.110, l:J . -•4 r., ' I'd E£ m ..,, ·-· r~~ <• u;:) ., 0 .. . I '1 -0.. l>' C, ~ ~ . ~ .. 3: '-JP" ':"' .t ,..; . ') STANDARD FORM NO. 6' • • irffice Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO A . H . BEioNfJ PROM W. A . BRAN~/ SU BJECT: FLYING DISCS :> DATE : August 18, 1952 f ,....__ Tolaon_ - Clege_ PURPOSE: (;lavln_ Nli::,ol.t_ Rose.1_ To advise al l Supervisors engaged on night duty of instructions concerning the referra l of flying disc information to OSI . Tn<r_ ..,.,,._ .,,.,_ _ lSel.mOnt _ t.le. Room_ uau,_ , ....,, BACKGROUND: ~ Captain William Deegan, OSI, 4th Air Force Base , Bowling Field, has requested that any information 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 . ~AbCeTION: J \\ \J 1 t' 1,.-,, I t is recommended a copy of this memorandum filed in the night and week- end Supe r visor ' s book EHJI:::: ,, lee for their information , V\ RECORDED • 4C t. I 6...t. 58 SEP 18 1952 (3 , • .. FLYING DISCS -- Refer ence is made t o Bureau Bulle tin #57, Paragraph n~ dated October 1, 1947, and SAC Letter lf:38, dat ed Mar ch 25, 1949, in the captioned matter. (C) 1 It is noted that some Bureau field offices a r e not fur­ 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 investigation of so- called f l ying discs is the r esponsibility of the Department of the Air Force . ,-.,.,... e-/QI/ 1r -NOT-RmooRl>~U 80 SEP ,."-? 1952 --- \ \ • ... STA,~ ARD FORM NO. 64 • Office Mem(/, w,~Jum . UNITED S1'ATES GOVERNMEN T August JIR. {?df'f ) TO HARBO 29J 1952 DATE : FROM D. J,. PARSONS , SUBJECT: UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJEC~ ALLEGEDLY CITED BY MR. D. S~ WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA ( \ ~ TOlSon+ ~~ 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 • 1 residues left the nature of the residual material . 1..7 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 Air Force as follows: fr, V) 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 . ff 3. When the cap is obse r ved from the front, the left 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: c..c. i ~ . ~ . i That in response to the request , ~I Colonel Free rlof the Air Force, i t is recommended that he be ~ t:_::lly a1'lised of the above. / v-2 t5q 1Y... - J R11- c1 - - ~ ··- tzr - 03X3al~·1 G?~ ~ 6 , / . ,/r HEWRDED -m" DJP/mek ((M J> 1',, 1{ flft.£; t, f / 7 SEP 1 i ;:JtrllorJ 3/6 :- - "" • t .... C ·, - ' ·~ ..- :z w 0 () '-"? I () ::E. V) < _, ..., ,- IL,_ .., 0 c.., -. ,.. .., ('V") C ../) ' t'"' C-, ' ff . • y (' ~ -;. ~ ~ I C r- l> CD 0 ::0 ► - r ~ ,.,, l...> IJ . . , < .., ·- ~m (0 o- ..i::\0 <' t C 2: :x:. :::3: • '-" "'-J C") rr1 0 . I t fl f . .:!0 d;, ., I B .:4 • -, v7-0 3t L3 3 B.., ' tl ·~ (' ... , ~ · 1 (; ~ , )> :l:" ') a c.~ } ~ 62 nnu ~ ;o r'f1 rn < ) ,<..,,,J -j _ ~"J il Sflr :W '.Ld30 ·s r C: I ,. ', ~. ~ '\ '' r ., ' Q0\ N 'Z. (0 ' ~ Septembe r 11, 1 952 Air. Ro~ l wel l Roadstown, New Je r sey 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 , =,.,., ;;; J ohn Edga r Boouer i recto r Ctuil Aeronautics Administrat i on Secretary of ])efens e .,; . C: ....___ J 'l'ol■on_ _ __. ; l:tobol a . .l a l ) n t ~ .,..,, ......__ 01a,1n_ _ Jtoten_ _ Te1e , ~ -­ /·~y W . SEP 251952 lfOU_,,n_ ca,.,,_ _ SE;P 1 2 1952 MAILED 19 . ~:111srir :10 lcl:IO s •11 I 8 J "O 0}1 1 1\11.i! ::i M:J :lJ'd l. MR JO~F S R lt' l: 1 ✓ FO F BI u s O[Pl )I=' .rus, ICF. . • .- . , - ~ ~~---.~f -\: ~,~, l tt l l ~r t ~~ l' . ~ ~ ~ g ~i Rit - . 1 I \ ~~~ - )o :J Co~ ct ~ t_ ~- ' - Co CN Et • , 't:- ~ t ~ }f ~tl f~1 ....... K _ , ....._ \ • •'. _· · ~ t i l ¥ ~( J<- ~ ~ ~~ ~ lA) . -.,,, __ . . ctJt;!/4 tJw • A A~ T C ~ ~~ tyv __r d1 I ~ &JL-JL-~ ~ ~r- • sTANOA.RO f'ORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • uNrTEn sTATEs GOVERN MEN T ( DATE: TO Mr. A. H . BeieJ~ FROM C. E. HennricrC SUBJECT: STRANGE WHITE OBJECT SEEN OVER MONTANA ON SE~~~ER 19, 1952 ))/ 1 Y/ September 20, 1952 Tolar.n~ V. ~·'y"ti I talke~b..ASAC Plaxico of..Bu.tte on~September 20 re tbe attached news releases indicating that the FBI :was investigating a strange white object wpich reportedly 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. Attachment CEH :meh} .1 ~,J ~Jll•l.v ,y~1i I ~,sti7Y tX.· 73 .f '- 0 '0(; i ti 1952 ~ ......_ 01&v1 n _ Tncy_ IIOhr_ _ ....._ ,,1,. Ra._ • ~Offi;;"Memo~ n d w l t ~ ~nltl\tn~• i \ DATE: DIRECTOR, FBI TO FRO M 1 ~1 10/3/52 SAC ' NEWARK (100- 36998) 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 ~ .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 background 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 . SUBJECT: RE : y b 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 P. _ J. _ :ij" !, '{) / f --.3 made by this office . LWR :IMH APPROPRIATE AGENCIE~ .AM>F!Er..D oFFrcEs ADVIS!J) BY Rout o. SLIP(SJ OF 7 - DATE ' 6 t Ol11 .t RECQRDED-12 •, r.... 1Nor:xEn,12 J1) ,1 ' '1, ·,._ ~ \ ECURI 1. 1 0 c""1s 1952 i ll , 'A.~ ~- i ~ ~ ~ ,, ,"tY\ ✓ 'l. < • ..,~, H~ ZtJ II OI 1:10· 03/\!.:JJ:)}J ' fREo. J. EEK HOUT LL.o. i . '· 1\ I 49, STADHOUDERSLAAN I 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 ., 1 With very kind regards, ., '! • l • • I , ' . .. I f.bu October 10, 1 952 AIR MAIL ~ Rf.COROf.D • 1' ~ ~ r. Fred J~ekhout ~ , L (\l'G0lff9 Stadhoude'rslaan )g • The Hague The Netherlands 1~ t'\!. 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 the Department of the Ai r Force for evaluation and consider­ ation . In the absence of some arrangement between you and the Air Force, your further use of t he pertinent facts is , of course, a matter fo r your own determination. 01 C V ~ .., .) <..,-, Sincerely yours, John Edga r Hoover Director NOTE OJI YELLOW: .....__ Tol ■on_ _ .......,._,,__ __ ..__ ...,,__ 11cbol■_ 01.aYln_ _ ..,. 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 t hat .further contact with him, if any, would come from the interested Government agency rather than the Rureau . No mention was made of his keeping the facts secre-t pending a reply from the Bureau or the Air Force . {62- 83894-273) lklHn_ _ __ tA.1,IChl1n_ ...... ,..1•. 11•._ ....,__ Mlloun_ ;4~vc0' ~ ~ l a.,..., ' .JIJ.M ... •J. , ,,.. . ,, l j ., ... 1 . ... . . . .. , . . . . , 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: SUBJECT: 1. MR. ~ OX Connnents on Article in The NEW YORKER A call was made to the Air Technical Intelligence Center, 1330 this date, (Captain Ruppelt) regarding the attached article. /'-o""':,c 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, dtd Sept 6, 1952 C Ch' n· gement Group telligence ,. • .., v J -. IS 3 t~S HHlfi a \•HHL;ltt ,~. ~d S1 s l\l 130 Q3f\\;)~;l}1 •• DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OFFICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION W AS HINGTON ZS, D . C. 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. 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. 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. - 3 - 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, . " .. - I A fl r .POR. TcR. AT l f\ r> GE N mid ummer of 19+7, the cd SOMETHING IN THE SKY erat of the Air ~1atericl Command, States Air Force, already concerned 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 Congress received a deluge of letters demanding _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 ,ufficiently, 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 launchinnhy the Air Force, on January 22 1948 o_f a special i1l\'estigation, an im\•,ti:ra: aon that, though it has reached 11111nerous 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 reported phenomena, and it may even han~ felt that to frisure a thorou.,.h,,0111 ,, ~ ~ ~ t, page 62 ,f:a '. • I ... ": ' " -tenant G overnor Donal<. A ,1t.-~ fore. '7:L. off," hes: Russians have nothing to do so-called .of Idabo, disclosed that . . \if": he had seen a comet-shaped uojec, l1ling saucers· I'll swear t(. "'"' 1 a stack of over the western p.:trt of the state. It Bibles,' if you like. Sec ond, we. don't 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." Reports of other phenomena having HE first saucer iro,cident occurred been seen in the skies appeared in the on the afternQ<''n of J une 24, 1947, papers almost daily. Two Army officers when Kenneth Ar,nold, on a business trip for a Boise, Idatho, firm that makes at Fort Richardson, Alaska, reported seeing a spherical object flying through 1 fire-control equipr ent, was flying his 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 Jersey, was traced to a so shiny that they reflected fireworks display. Dr. Paul the sun like a mirror." Ar­ Fitts, an Ohio State Uni­ nold said he watched the versity psychologist who saucers for three minutes was for a time attached to and estimated their speed at Project Saucer, considered ahout twelve hundred miles this crowded condition in an hour. the holiday skies the result Air Force technicians, of mass suggestibility, the consulted by newspapersame jumpy trait that • men, said that any object caused Americans to see moving that fast would be Zeppelins overhead during invisible to the nakeo eye at and after the First '\Vorld Arnold's estimated distance. War. "Our graphs ~how The press scoffed at Ar­ that saucer incidents al­ nold's story, and he was re­ w ays increase dramatically sentful. "Even if I see a after publicity," he has ten-story building flying since told me. "The sky, through the air, I won't you know, has been a say a word about it," he de­ source of exciting visions clared, and when he got 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 moments." azine called Fate. No sooner were the skeptical news­ ROM the beginning, the officers in paper accounts printed than dozens of charge of Project Saucer recognized people turned up with similar re­ 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 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 T F page 64 .. ' saw? " Major ·e ~ ~gs, who was then the chief - 3<1. 1ficer between , v r ight Field and tl. 1igh command in \ Vashington, said to me one day shortly after Project Saucer had pre­ sumably become a thing of the past. " 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 fewer the theoretical explanations and modern way the less plausible they were, the more • focludes $6 worth of RCA Victor a]. bums a(no extra charge. reason there was fo r suspecting people had seen saucers." The Major shook Other " Vic trola" 45 record changers as low as $16.75. his head, and continued, " I t's a difficult concept to grasp, but so was the job we R(;A were tackling." I asked Major Boggs whether ther e ~ ~ ti was any way to account for the epidemic Tmks. ® DivUioo of &dio Corporation of America of reports of strange celestial objects. LOVELY TO LIGHT BY . "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 there that appears strange. And more Iron In atylized flower and leaf people are looking up now than ever desion n t off by delicate. scr oll• before. Kids don't count freight cars work and finished any more; they count airplanes. People in silvery black for dramatic who were trained in air observation contra.st with during the war have gone right on white u...ndlH. Height 9\12", observing. Also, the public hasn't for­ 8" across. $7.50 gotten that the atomic bomb was kept Postage .SO. welt of Miss..75 secret from it for three years. T his No c .o . D. 's pleue. o oen S atur day 9 .5 time, people want to know what's cooking, 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 one kind or another that release balloons At leading f urniture ond deportmen t stores. Send 3-cent ,tomp to Dept. N for booklet. from time to time. These range from UNION- NATIONAL, DIC. • JAMESTOWN, N. v..,, simple weather balloons, nr • -~er than I reeo,Jelwnge,-... -~vietrola''43 ViCTOR mahes the'-Uetrola:' On& ' ft1tte; Il page 67. 68 .. ' ; 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, anvone 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 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 ,_ page 69 , 70 I ir S .. rout ne patrol for ti• ~ or:l;) ,1_ k< ta :-..ar onal Guard, and ju ;ccd the t, \\·er at the Fargo .\lunicip:tl Air­ port for de.1rance to Luid when he •,aw 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 tude and a.?ain made a left bank. I put distincti,e addirio n ro an,• roorn. 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, I ~Ul"::, I Jot scared. I went into a drve "lJNG ML\.~s ~\~ 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 with11ut 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 6 Weatht.:r !L1tion had relea,-ed a lighted 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 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 par,t, 71, 72 .. . &e· .nan) s:\Uccr~ .. ·,en I'm holJing one Ill m} 0 '11111' 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 ond ,un. S17.9S in blue-&• signed agents to help interview people oul 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 Sell Sl e tion as the saucer's size, speed, color, DIRECT MATTRESS CO. "W•frudrmork 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 EXETER Hosiery crash-landed in one of hi fields and burned uo a natch nf Wf'f'tl" Thr P B T . ' nn the retina and moviI1g as the eye ITIO\cS. • .. 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 • I space beyond it; and the electronics ex­ perts attached to the Cambridge Field t' Station. T hese men were all searching for physical rather than psychological • explanations, and some fairly strange I , theories occurred to them-the possibil­ 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 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 building space ships? The astronomers ' ,• ,' '' : pap;e 75, 76 f that-th .t \d le th info~m:uion t!lc1 give 1,1e may be mad1• : 1 t their 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 tor the ''...omuhing sih-er} directl} overhead" reported by a mystified Civil •\ eronautics Administra tion inspector at T erre H aute. A commercial pilot who, tlring near Ba ttle C reek, l\,Jich1gan, •potted " an O\"al-shaped ,il\'er object" ,thead of his ship, po~ed a simila rly un­ <;<>lved problem, as did a highly respected naval officer, stationed a t the dirigible ba,;e a t L akehurst, New J ersey, who re­ ported that he had stared through his binoculars a t a brilliant image making turns tha t were far too tight for an} known aircraft. Twenty-five per cent of the observ­ cn, interrogated by the Aerial P henom­ ena Officer in the last two and a half } ears have been milita ry pilots. E ight per cent have been commercial pilots, ,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 _ _____. ... ] HAVE YOU GRASPED THE ◄ ~outbtuick IDEA? H erc is tailoring so completely flexil that the comfort contrast is r ei markable. Once you experience the blissf and casual distinction of SU P ERFLEX co tion, you'll never go back to over-stuffed styled clothes. Suits from S70. Sports from S55. 11a/11ral PAUL STUART, INC. ARTH UR L. WARNBR & COMPANY 8•/trmort, M d. S ILVERSTO NE'S JOH N WANAMA" p1,,1.,,, ROBERT 11 No, Yo,. C111 ""·••ic- ,v,,, Boston s.,. F,11nc FtJr 110,n in orb, G RI ECO IROS . , Inc . , 200 f if t .. I • fourtec~ minutes, Pierm:i.1A wA bri(!'ht lights tha t resemh1W ta~ sh~oting stars, hut three o f them were blJUaJiJ moting horizontally, unlike a ny shoot­ ing star he hnd ever seen. A nother com­ Fifth.Ave. atSSIA, N . Y. 22 mercial pilo t who was reached in flig ht 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 ' na tural phenomena account for these The Mark Cross 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 them as I do. And you r g uess is • about full>• combed yarn. Button cufie, 1 as good as mine." 11 (!-171.~ collar. 32-35 •lt't'•c. Whitc 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 ' do111g six hundred m iles a n hour, lf't 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 light," hut within a m inute it, too, disappeared. " \ Ve ha \•e no evidence Easy to Play-only $4.98 they were Rying saucers," a n Air Force Cum1>l<-tc with blo\\ piJlt, <lroncs, chauntu, hri11l11 repre~entative said later. "Con versely, plaid l,aa •ncl ribl,on1, this .-nsy-10-pl,,y , \ m rican 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· firing saucers. \ Ve don't know what can lean i lo pfay 1101•ubr tunt.. in a m.1ttc;r of min­ utts just by r<-:,ding numbcra, ~l;ide of \\38hablr the) were." S t)"rcnt: :rnd \ 'inylik, it•, '3(c, ...anit.ary and Mron". •\ s a re~ult of these two incidenfa, Fa:--cinatiul' fun-mal cr for chiMrcn .and gro"'n u,,.. •,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 and o ffering advice. One of the :.mailer MRS . KARO'S airline:, supplied ih crews with ca meras a nd ordered them to photograph any 160 EAST 62nd STREET saucers the) encountered. A civilian TE'mpl•t°" 1•6516 wrote to the Air F orce that he would nar,e 79 , 80 Sp•ci• lish in •ilh , tecu , l•blt llnens, shirts; • 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 MAR_~ . CR()SS ,_ l -~ ~ TOY BAGPIPE HAND LAUNDRY --- .. 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 public 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 authority on atmospheric conditions said of the physicist's experiment, "I know of no conditions of the earth's atmosphere, high or low, whi~h would duplicate, page 81, 82 7-26a Contents from • . .• , ERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ~ WASHINGTON, D. C. Date October 6, 1952 Case References INVESTIGATION OF POSSIBIE £ / UNIDENTfFIED FLYING QBJt:'CT Directorate of Special Invest. Consigned t al!he Inspector General Department of the Air Force, The Pentagon , ashington, D. C. Att: Mr. Gilbert R. Levy List of Contents • PC-J3951DE Ql through Q6 Kl through K3 lt9736~ I l. Mr. Harbo, 7625 Mr. Conrad, 7142 Mr. Downing, 6228 Mr. Bowles, 7601 Mr. Parsons, 7121 'B 6;;;- //3 ?1,//~ SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: Ma" Room, place date of shipment and registry number; Shipping Room, show date of shipment and initial t his invoice; then return it to person whose name is checked in column at right. After this checked name has been initialled, invoice should be placed in administrative file. ... I .,. Date, Oo1ob•r 281 Jg52 To: Dtr•ctor o/ Spectal Ino•attgatton• The Inap•ctor Gen•ral D•partaent o,f th• Atr Toro• Th• Pentago11 raabtngton 2s, D. c. Joh• Edgar Boouer, Dlr•otor 'RECORDED_ l43 t •d•ral Bureau o/ I,u1••ttgatt•• Troe, SubJec1i1 rfriJi1uc'-fas.:JJtl I \ r ~A•r• or• attached /or gour tn/or,aatton • cop11 o/ a aelJ-ezplaNio~u l•t1er dai•d Ootob•r 211 19~2, ond the encleaur•• fhtr•to, rec•tved bu thta , Burecw Jro• ur. Rarvel w. Re•c•• /. I 1/r. R••c• •a• been adutaad that ita lett6r ha• b••n r•J•rr•d to i,our Depar'ta••i• No ,furtl•r actt,oii ta b•i11g iaten in thia 114tter. bf/ "tl.&Ja Bureau._ \ i \ \ Cl_ __ 01.a'T.ln_ _ v NOV5 ... I 18TH AND H. ST. N.W PHONE NA 9216 . l / - / 0 - .s- ;;._ • . .. . - /V ft& j'f:~ )S- 78' w. /?..EE c c ✓ If p ft. /t/./1// <... t lU Ct ,J(V(tj( / 31 .. ct.T.. , AI R.olt-o ol/l'O. f• '· . ..,. STANO.V,D f"0ffM NO, 114 • • .OffiCe•Memorandu " TO • • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT : MR. FROM DATE: V. P. KEAY SUBJECT: OFLYING October a,.,.~ f ~~ 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 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. ~ ! , '- !.. r.r_ _ 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 ,~ 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,, ' ~' j ?A)Jachments (2) (}i@tJ(& 919'2 RECOR!)ED - 116 \NDEXED • 11\l. ~ /) " (j\ , • ' .• . I •' - c:::> n . I <=) c:::::, ~ ::i=- .. ::3: .. •. ~-.· ., ,.... "' 2 c:, w Cl) <t :J .- .... 0 ~-'> ::e: 'J (..""I 0 i- Ll"':I -:; , :z: ~ ~ l,L u.J 0 v) ~ ~-....... c..) a... ~ - r,.., <"'--J < ) ~ C.. . .) J snr .:10 ·1c1::it; I 8 .:I , ,n-031,1333~ <-.1'1 ""' .~~ (J> rn ("") 0 t"'I ~ , , :;.- _, . rr. .• OJ c, ~. w '1 C. I '-- !-I !::. ("') ~, (/'I ·-·-• C"' . rn :'C 0 r en • t 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. J 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 - 2 - \ : • • 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. - 3 - ST~WCD FORill NO. 6' • • • Office Memorandum • uNrTEn sTATEs GovERNMENT y TO llR. A. H. BELJ/ONT O>('>~(}/ FROM Y. P. KEA r;' ~;_--- SUBJECT: DATE: October 27, ~ 1/ ()FLYING SAUCERS ci.-01..., n _ SYNOPSIS: Aiz:.. ~Intelligence advised of another creditable and 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 considering the,..2~s!ibility of int ~£1anetary ships. ......__ """'",-_ ­_ ..... .....__ ......_ _ Tile. Ra. _ --- l 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; / / t.J and that t}u y_a eat a complete loss to explain this most recent 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~ ~ " - ''.!,.· mlt;tJ/;r) ~ •; • ~' '.PV- .3,t/;.!) "·u ocr;; 195z• IA~ / ) __] ~ I. ·1. A. Ocr 28 ~ 53 PH '52 REC'D BELMONT ,.. _, I r. th . . • ">' ;-., c;, 4,Vl"h. y ~ " I ~ ·, ,?.e.c,o~ .~:;- v ~~ .1...~ .•'-' ~ ~ • ~ •• ~v ~,- ' <~·• · "'--· "' s·,c... .t.~ RECEI V t. :J - • J I .S Ot-. 11 .1$f!C E " ; - .~,......,._~1 <'\ ~.... ~. .~': nt.i"'. \)~ iu · 1 F BI Oc: 28 9 23 AM '52 • CO F ', ri l)N r!\ s0~ 1 I :• ~◊~'i.Jci l'n \ oo ~\\ '':ll . r l S. 0 l. , , · i '" ;; ~-OEPi IJF .JU~- TIC!' ''J N :.. . i ~ ·, ' : • , ~ L., , ,t.,; E • IAiSOll: ' , - - • "' E ::~v 5 4 s1 PM'J'5? 8 s1 AM '~ • llJ t..., V) -.J ;-=: C :r V) t · .. <".4 '-'"> . ..... ~,.--..,-:; Q._ I . L:. (\J ;u • • {..) :.:-; CQ 0 ~ W..:;;: ~ r-f !!.! - Lu 0 v; c--..., ::> ds ,"t; ' .' . , . . I'-. fa) II) • - ~ : ... , ) • • • • Memo to Mr. A. n. Belmont from v. p. Keay I J RE: FLYING SAUCERS coJoneZ roung ad u,}sed that Ajr Intelljqerw e it-Ult .Cu.J