FB SAVANNAH IRECTOR, FBI FLYING SAUCERS 7-48 PM OK FBI WA NRB FED ERAL BU REAU O F IN VESTIG ATIO N U . S. D EPARTM EN T O F JU STICE COM ^llKiCAT iuHS wtvlION URGENT 6-46 PM SAUCER FLY OVERSAW A BLUE LIGHT WITH APPROXIMATELYOF THE SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT ATTHE FOUR HUNDRED AREA NINE THIRTY PM AUGUST OF SPEED AND TRAVELING IN A NORTHEASTERN SCHLENKER ACK AND H 4 S 3 AUG 8 1B OFFICE OF AEC PONT COMPANY SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT, AEC. SECURITY ADVISED THIS DATE THAT TWO EMPLOYEES OF THE E. I. DU EIGHT, FIFTYTWO. OBJECT FLYING AT A HIGH RATE AN ORANGE FRINGE SHAPED LIKE A H^vi^z AUG 141952 t. this line municate directly with him Sincerely yours HMD: & ^AiIOBhHOU «■•- - - «^®A Director EOD 3-28-35 GS-12 Kane :Dear Dr NG IE: Edmond J.U r a ne Mauston*isconsin August 11 1952 saucers is being Air orce 1) 195 2 has been received promoted your bringing your observations to my attention #10,800 ‘lol 1 , -.: G*nd> T olson U ichols Bolnont Gc .: > -t,D;. CP /* Gw “'94 ^yC^AA * ?x noJaiui ^A ' 3^ M auston, W isconsin, 1 August 19^2 M r. J. Edgar H oover, Director FBI W ashington, D. C. Dear Sir: As a retired member of the StPaul Police Force and having had numerous pleasant contacts with Agent Clintonstein and Samy H ardy I take the liberty of an opinion that came to me that the flying Atomic Bombs could be soaring around in the atmosphere. I know you can channel this thought to ^TTe proper -atitliui'lLtvs^and cer­ tainly would appreciate your comments on this thought. I am a Veteran of both W orld W ar //I 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 M auston, W isconsin 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 com­ ments . ----- ------ --------------------------------------------------------——— Yours very truly Edmond J. Kane M auston, W isconsin CC: Personal file RECORDED - 119 MR. JONES ^♦G 6 2 55^*9 RECEIVED FBI ■J $ Ofpr OF JUSTICE o August 12, 1952 Mrs. Ora AJfTygrett c/o Lou Merlaw Farm Rural Route No, 1 N ew Palestine, Indiana ' \ . ’ '* /'/.uh _. ■ Dear Mrs, Tygrett: Your letter dated July JI, 1952, addressed to the W ar Department, c/o Federal Bureau of Investigation, has been received. Your interest in furnishing your observati on in this regard is appreciated. In view of the contents of your communication which also appear to be of interest to the Department of the Air Force, I have taken the liberty of furnishing that Agency a copy of your letter, Sincerely yours, John Edgar Hoover Di rector TOCsjdt A U G 14 |W W CO M M - FBI M A IL E D 2 0 68 AUG 22 *98 2 » t--;» . ■: . ^ • i • । ■’ v ■ . ■ c : f' ' . \ • ' ' '■•■.. tM j’r^H ■'■y..!' -'M y iJ &JA EIICHI 40 4?fi R’ I 9 3W0OH 1W* um ii O K GH jlAM 5^1 utM > Date? Au gust 13, 1952 Tot Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air force The Pentagon W ashi ngton 25, D. C. From: John Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Subjects FLUNG DISIS There is attached a Photostat of a self explanatory letter dated August 5, 1952, at Pontiac, Michigan, received by this Bureau from Mr, W , H, Jennings, 3096 Haxelmary, Zone 17, Pontiac, Michigan, relating to the capti oned matter. Mr. Jennings' letter has been acknowledged and he has been informed that a copy of his letter has been furnished to your office for appropriate attenti on. N o further action is contemplated tn this matter by this Bureau. There ;a no record identifiable with J^rgiings in the files of the Bureau »e^®'^tlVt. .^u rtOu F 8 J '• S SEP; OF JbSffCf Date: August 13, 1952 To: Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air force The Pentagon W ashington PS, D. C. From John Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Subject: FLYING DISKS There is attached a copy of a self explanatory letter dated July 31, 1952, received by this Bureau from Mr. Benedicto Romero, 1647 Park Avenue, New York City, relating to the captioned matter. Mr. Romero's letter has been acknowledged ^ and he has been informed that a copy of his letter has been furnished to your office for appropriate attenti on. No further action is contemplated in this matter by this Bureau. Bureau files fail to reflect. any'RtJifarmati on that can be identified with Mr. Romero. ^ ^ ^^H ^n 30U 3° s,h os -. SI Da te: August 14 , 1952 Tot Director of Special Investigations The inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon W ashington 25, D. C. From: John Pdgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Subject: FLTIXG DISKS There is attached a copy of a self- explanatory letter dated August 1, 1952, received by this Bureau from Mrs. Fred Haufe, 606 W alnut Avenue, Fairmont, W est Virginia, relating to the captioned natter. Mrs. Haufe'8 letter has been acknowledged and she has been informed that a copy of her letter has been furni shed to your office for a propriate N o by further action is contemplated in this Bureau. _ U di__________ H U hoi#_______ B#Inont_______ CU tt_________ O U rln Bute__________ Tracy. Rohr. attenti on. this matter NO TE: that can EW :kc ^3 A U G 2 61952 be 3 * w Bureau files fail identified' with ^v ^ ^^^ v. m J to reflect any t-p.f orma.ti on Mrs. Haufe ^^^ ' |AUG 15 $ l^05 v ^ 1 SERVICE UNIT 4-22a SEARCH SLIP y Supervisor Room-~ < ‘^ Subj^^id- ^ffi^M iJ/^^^ ____Exact Spelling Searcher^/ / > A^All References Initia(>P^W^5 ----Subversive Ref. Date ^//^ ____Main File ----Restricted to Locality of FILE NUMBER SERIALS SIA N D A RO FO RM N O . 64 Office Memorandum • u nited states g overnm ent T O M R R. T^HARUQ /^ DAT E : AugUSt 8, 1952 Tolson SU BJE & .,F. DO W NT N FROM ANO NYM O U S CO M M U NICATIO N W RITTEN ERM AN LANGU AGE RECEIVED BY "CINCINNATI ENQU IRER" PERTAINING TO "FLYING SAU CERS" SECU RITY M ATTER - X Reference is made to a letter from the August 6, 1952, submitting an anonymous letter so-called “Flying Saucers.” Attached are 7 copies of a translation prepared in the Cryptanalysis-Translation Section No reply has been made toy us -to the August 6, 1952, letter from Cincinnati. of this German material Cincinnati O ffice dated in German concerning '| *a olavln r.lchols howr. a«w RECO M M ENDATIO N: That the Domestic Intelligence Division review the Cincinnati submission and accompanying Bureau translation, for appropriate handling, noting particularly a suggestion in the last paragraph of the Cincinnati letter to consider making this informatipp available to other Governmental Agencies 62-8 3 8 911 $ ^ 2 _ 33^/^ ^3^ 5 te UL> 8 0 SE P £ 1952 Office Memur cwtJam• UN ITED STATES GOVERN M EN T TO : FROM : SUBJECT: MR. D. DAT E : August 29, 1952 that we at W est UNIDENTIFIED FLYIN G- ORJEC ALLEGEDLY CITED RY MR. D. NEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA S\T)ES VER GERS Tracy____________ Harbo____________ By letter examine the Palm Beach, unidentified flying of August 26, 1952, the Air Force requested cap of Mr. Desvergers , a scoutmaster Florida, toho claims that he observed an ; object in a desolate area. He report^ 'H3f that upon his investigation, a ^B object 30 feet in diameter^ hovered over his head and shot a "red blob" which caused? him^to lose consciousness. The cap has some holes burned in it and it is reported that the hair on Desvergers' arms was singed. Air Force requested that we determine, if possible, from any residues left the nature of the residual material. M ohr________ Tele. Room_ N ease_______ Gandy The Air Force desires an oral report on this tonight. /^ W e have finis bed the examination and are preparing to advise the Air Force as follows: 1. There is no residue which would permit a determination as to the nature of the material which caused the burns in the cap. In addition to the obvious burns, there is one minute burned area which is probably too small to have been caused intentionally but more likely by a small hot ember. 2. The bill and a large part of the edges of the cap are singed but the singeing is not uniform as would be expected if it had been caused at one time by a single flash of flame. The front edge of the cap bill is more severely singed than other portions of the cap. This condition would not be expected if the source of the flame was directly overhead. 3. W hen the cap is observed from the front, the left edge of the insignia and the fold in the blue cloth, there is an absence of singeing noted under the fold suggesting the possibility that the cap was not being worn when the singeing took place. It is noted that this fold "smooths out" when the cap is placed on the head. RECOMMENDATION : That in response to the request, of Colonel Free 4 u ' «& E •4 r 4 ■’C Z9. W J 01 3 2 ^S vnisnr jo’id3 O’S I‘9 J • - ’V Ofc to ;. S' c co CM ■A G 0 \ i o' i c ilje^ G ? < t SAT .JO id3 H o I 8 3 '^ 71-03 '^3 ? ^ 5’ 7 C < 0 ’1 ( i c A ;0 ' ■. • ■ c H 0 . CD O - 4 3 .,: 3 ' 43 ’0 4' .4 . ’o4 ;r £-: ■ i y. c -c . ■ 0 co m a; 9 ; ’< c. O' o C as Q s* Hoadatown, New Jersey Dear Ur, Elwell: September 11, 1952 Sincerely youra G*nd> John dgar Hoover Xi rector °f Defense, The Pentagon, W ashington Tour letter postmarked September 6, 1952 has been received, and I appreciate the interest prompting you to let me have the benefit of your observations, r3 5 SE P2 51952 T olson U dd_ M loholsj Bslnont_ Clogs___ O lav’n K arbo Roaon C. SE P i 21952 M A IL E D Id Since the contents of your communi cation may be of interest to other governmental agenci es, I am taking the liberty of forwarding copies of it to the Administrator of Civil Aeronautics, Civil Aeronautics Administration, Department of Commerce, W ashington, D, C., and to 'fie Honorable, The Secretary e^^Copy by form sent to Civil Aeronautics Administration ' . ' ^Copy by form sent to Secretary of Defense DIC:imz . Sep 11 7 oi PH’S RECEIVED REAL; Hb ROOM MR. st^s /K^^ ^V> STA N D A RD FO RM N O . 64 Office Memorandum UN ITED STATES GOVERN M EN T C. E. Hennric M ON TAN A ON SEP ACTION : A / Jz < f_ 2 1££f2 ? 1 IM BER 19, 1952 M r. A. H. Be date.- Septem ber SU BJE CT : STRAN GE WHITE OBJECT SEEN OVER J talked w/th ASAC Plaxico of Butte on Septem ber 20 re tha attached news releases indicating that the FBI was investigating a strange white object which reportedly streaked across the sky of M ontana for about one hundred m iles. I4r. Plaxico stated that while a report of this object haTbeen received at the Butte Office, that no investigation was conducted regarding the m atter and that none was contem plated« For your inform ation Attachm ent CEHimeh •O Oti 6 1952 20, 1952 Tolson ciegg 01avln_ Her bo Rosen Tracy M ohr N ease Gandy ^■^-p?^-j/y Sti 23 3 3 52' RECEIVED - NICHOLS U.S. DEPT. Of JUSTICE Sep 22 I 16 PM ’5? STA N D A RD jr T O DIRECTOR, FBI DATE: 10/3/52 FROM # SAC, N EWARK (IOO-36998) SU BJE CT : SPECIAL IN QUIRY UN IDEN TIFIED AERIAL OBJECTS; Inspector General, USAF Investigations For the information of the Bureau, on August 27, 1952, the N ewark division received a request from the Inspector General, United States Air Force, 2nd District Office of Special Investi- gations, 67 Broad Street, N ew York 4, N ew ground of a civilian photographer, JOHN R Paterson, N . J., and of GEORGE J. CK, York, that the back- £ KILEY, 571 M ain Street, 21 Brooks Avenue, Passaic, N . J., be Investigated in an attempt to determ ine 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 crim inal checks were m ade in this m atter as well as discreet neighborhood inquiries as to both individuals,and no inform ation was received that either individual had criminal records or that they were known in the past to have perpetrated any kind of fraud. It was ascertained that STOCK did photograph an allegedly unidentified aerial object and that RILEY witnessed the incident and 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 M r. CHARLES GREGG, staff writer, "The Herald N ews, Passaic, N . J." The letter further requested that the photographer and the witness be questioned as to the circum stances under which the photographs were taken and that an attem pt be m ade to locate other sources in the area that m ight determine the authenticity of the photos. N o Investigation of this type was m ade by the N ewark division. In accordance with SAC letter #83, Series 1952 dated 8/29/52, the results of the credit and crim inal checks and the neighborhood investigations were forwarded to the local OSI Office, N ew York City and no further investigations have been, m ade by this office LWR:IM H RECORDED-12 AFTR-OPELA TE a GEN C IE3j : OCT 1952 , DATE :bCHVE(} OctiO II mz AN’In ^F^M’ - .UWHY SN Fred. ). EEK HOUT ll.d. .. \ 49, STADHOUDERSLAAN TfciBHague t he Hague, October 6th T H E N E T H E RLAN DS Departm ent cf Justice federal Bureau of Investigation Pennsylvania Avenue WASHIN GTON D.O. In the care of M r Bailey ( U Rm 1246 Dear M r Bailey, Excuse m e please if I m isspelled your nam e, but I never saw it in writing. On M ay 5th at 2.15 P.M . of this year I paid you a visit in the ?.B.I.offices, where I told you details on a certain subject you will surely rem em ber. At the end of the conversation I prom issed you not to talk about it un- til I had received word from you whether or not the proper authorities were interested. It was taken for granted that a few m onths m ight elapse before the answer could be given. Five m onths have passed by since then, and as the subject has now becom e active in Europe, I am really anxious to go ahead with it, I have ofcourse tried to check the theory on each aspect and while doing so I found various com plem entary as well as fundam ental details. I have now reached the point however where I would like to discuss the whole with an expert and T would therefor certainly appreciate to know whether I have to consider our agreement on com plete silence as still being valid and necessary or not It' m ight be that you are too busy to be able to write to m e or that the authorities are not interested. As it is not m y intention to bother you too m uch with it, I wi^ take it that there is no longer any necessity for silence on m y~ part if I do not receive any Inform ation to the~ cShtraEy by the end of this m onth. By this proposition I do not intend to force an issue but I would like to discuss a subject like this with scientists friends of m ine, which I cannot do as long as I am bound by m y prom ise to you. V''y With very kind regards, z Tours' Truly ya^isS i',: to enso nnt ri dAS/ far ,yeliAfi n . tr^Q ind jener ulov bellsc aoin I \r easels nm •Pero-x? .grrtiiw ai ii wen tn van I rev b/so I noy nr;?' t . HQ CU> ’r ri;1 yaK ■; no elisiei; soy blcJ 1 s^srfw ^aooil^o . r .;,,' er’3 nJ JJ. yiv ■> ^o ban edi \t/ .‘THpnwo’r yle^na Ilir noy inai, Yxi« nisiyeo a -W Xi two Ct* ;',!,•• Q * 4 or noy bars jniotc I rotJx^a^e vnbo 0?.+ isocio ydi ton io re^/nj w i;cv rbyt pi or; iqvinre? herf I I|j isrfi fied’irjBXTi 70^ ;f.~.r? sow j ’ .beJam eini syn’? :r. 1; j"v;' r»evj«'ed biro; ■'nv/s/^p sr J eno^sd eacole dr^air. er??rtor wo^ r. an bos .Her?* ocrie yd iodaso evjjr «/trews nyry yUm i cib X .eroTirtf ni svJJns e^doed won esd toetdxfK not 7 o& ’Xiob el irfv nor -tone a;?r dons HO vroe/t ?r;J ^oedr .alrrteb IrIt?rrbru'^ st- I f? w i.p yv.+r'errslf rcr- rj o?7 p.v rr.no'5 X nm iiF "lavavvor? tirijor nr'I berifft^'x won eVsr! I I hne c’fpexa nn r^iw eloHw erl r.axrrdih c? nXil Wm <$> dvpo' I •xor'.tnr’w worot pv a^frie-Ffcrr yinisTx&p '€Q?eXfsrixt blrpw i£i£8 ra eoi:9liE elnh n or ne tremneT^A -wo xr.bianco g^ ror io’ YTRFRaonn fenn M ,T«v ^ejnef oi elds, nd r^ yard g o*- ets noy ^si nd inulin M «A .heiaere^t r ton ata aei diicdtiio edt ;fn$d ^p nr ot ediTw I ^i diiw norfn cod noy ns?rf^ocT ot ner.+ ne+ni yr tor ei ii '’"’^ xtinF.eonn yrna Tetrol on di em d! tB.dt ti oXa! IJ'iw i itAF ^r" ynxi I e I 8 »t$-AUHte3 3 g V^B^xh pv tec nOfeC , v^a^7 .rIrr'v a^u V * ' ^ ' or or 7 ' J ? e\ yr ro '-■■-'( ,. ''■■;■.:. ? rr\+ -o b;jf. ;;;<* ye y^ar.ocr eo^ Jco; <,: I noiriooro’-’o ridt vf ylm tjaM 303« / October 10, 1952 AIR M AIL RE CO RDE D - ^ ' Mr. Fred Jl^Eekhout Stadhouaerslaan % L - Q 3 W ^A e Hague The Motherlands ^ ^ Mr. Eekhout• Your letter dated October 6, 1952, has been received. You will perhaps recall being advised at the time of your visit to this Bureau that the matter discussed was not within the jurisdiction of the FBI. However, in view of your imminent departure from W ashington the infor­ mation was accepted for transmittal to the appropriate agency, which was to contact you if interested. Full details were made available at that time to the Department of the Air Force for evaluation and consider- ation. In the absence of some arrangement between you and the Air Force, your further use of the pertinent facts is, of course, a matter for your own determination. Sincerely yours, John Edgar Hoover Director MOTE ON YELLOW : Ruiet to OSI, Air Force, dated 5-7-52 transmitted data furnished by Fekhout to the Bureau 5-5-52 concerning his ideas as to plans for a workable flying disc. Eekhout was informed that further contact with him, if any, would come from the interested Government agency rather than the Bureau. N o mention was made of his keeping the facts secret pending a reply from the Bureau or the Air Force. (62-83894-273) JTA M to . so' ^.vA' 2 1-.. DE PART M E N T OF T HE AIR FORCE HE A D Q U A RTE RS U N ITE D STA TE S A IR FO RCE W A SHIN G TO N 2 5, D . C. 30 September 1952 M EM O RANDU M FO R: SU BJECT: Comments on Article in The NEW YO RKER 1. A call was made to the Air Technical Intelligence Center, 1330 this date, (Captain Ruppelt) regarding the attached article. 2. ATIC did not in any way indicate to M r.\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 onQlying saucers. ATIC is under the impression that M r. Lang made the ~'StO Ty''up or picked it up from a magazine or newspaper article sometime back that definitely was not associated with their organization. 3. ATlC suggests that you check further with M r. Al Chop, O ffice of Public Information, and perhaps he can supply you with the information you have requested. 1 Incl: Article fr NEW YO RKER dtd Sept 6, 1952 C. Colone Chief Dire YO U NG U SAF Policy & rate of gement Group telligence U J o Q LJ o U J Ct (k IN DE XE D - 50 RE CO RDE D • 50 60 0C1 291952' , OCT , 14.^ deceived OOZ0 5i5PN'^ MTFRnm u^tisn F B I ?’7.-^ r'>*.7 DEPARTM ENT O F DEFENSE Office of Pub lic Informat ion W A SHIN G TO N 2 5, D . C. The following Information concerning Air Force investigations of unusual aerial phenomena is submitted in answer to your requests In the Fall of 19^7 the U nited States Air Force took official notice of reports of so-called “flying saucers'1 because the reports from the public indicated that the problem might be related to the Air Force responsibility for the air defense of the U nited States. O n December 5°, 19^7 the Air Force directed its Air M ateriel Command, at W right-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, O hio, to set up a project to collect and evaluate all available facts concerning "flying saucer” sightings. To perform this task the Air M ateriel Command obtained the services of civilian and military astronomers, psychologists, electronic specialists, meteorologists, aeronautical engineers, and physicists. O n December 27, 19^9* after 375 reported sightings had been investigated, the Air Force, with the concurrence of the Army and the Navy, announced the findings of the "flying saucer" project. The evidence at that time indicated that the majority of the reports of unidentified flying objects could be accounted for as misinterpretations of various conventional objects, a mild form of hysteria, meteorological phenomena, light aberrations, or hoaxes. There remained, however, a number of unexplained sightings, and the Air Force has continued Its investigations inasmuch as It is an Air Force responsi­ bility to identify and analyze aerial phenomena that could possibly be a menace to the U nited States. Subsequent to December 19^9, these investigations have been conducted as a normal intelligence function, rather than a special project, by the Air Technical Intelligence Center, W right-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, O hio. To date, the Air Force has undertaken to investigate and analyze about 1500 reports dealing with these phenomena. As before, most of the reports were identified and disposed of as friendly aircraft erroneously reported, known electronic and meteorological phenomena, light aberrations, hoaxes, and other known natural occurrences or man-made objects. The unexplained reports, however, which are in the order of 20 percent of the total, cannot be definitely associated with these familiar things. Difficulty in Evaluating Reports The difficulty in disposing of these unexplained reports is based largely upon the insufficiency of accurate basic data such as size, shape, composition and flight characteristics (speed, acceleration, altitude, exact maneuver pattern, etc.) of the objects. Although some instruments which are useful in obtaining more accurate data of this type have been available, the reports based on sightings with these instruments have been very infrequent and comprise an extremely small percentage of the total. M oreover, 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 U nited States. Initially it was believed that some pattern might evolve from the study of a large volume of reports. To date, no pattern has materialized to reveal anything whatsoever which can be interpreted as indicative of purpose or consistency or which can be construed as a menace to the U nited States. Nonetheless, since these unexplained sightings persist, the Air Force will continue its investigations, giving the problem adequate but not frantic attention. It is now felt, however, that reports from people whose training and experience in observing aerial objects qualify them to obtain essential data are the only ones likely to produce material suitable for systematic analysis. The Air Force is planning to provide additional tools to help these observers obtain the basic data it needs. Reports of similar phenomena go back to Biblical times. There have been flurries of them in various centuries. The current series of sightings began generally in 19^6. There are many reasons why the volume of these reports has increased materially during the past few years. Aerial activity originated by man has increased, and people today have a greater curiosity about this activity than before. Also, our present efficient communication facilities and news media provide an incentive for reporting unusual observations, for publicizing them and for recording them. H owever, the ability to measure these phenomena does not seem to have advanced in stop with opportunities for observing them. The Air Force believes that most of these phenomena will gradually be understood as more is known about occurrences in the upper atmosphere. - 2 - Source of Reports The majority of reports of aerial phenomena have come from civilians. About 8 percent come from civil airlines pilots, while approximately 25 percent are reported by military personnel. Reports have been received also from highly qualified scientists. Although primary significance is attached to reports from qualified observers, there is no intention to discredit untrained observers. Radar Sightings The Air Force has received many reports of unusual images on radar 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 inversion reflections can give a return on a radar scope that is as sharp as that received from an aircraft. Speed ranges of these returns 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 intercept efforts. O ne 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 an incident which occurred in January 1951 near O akridge, Tennessee. Two Air Force aircraft attempted to intercept an unidentified "object" and actually established a radar "lock" on the object. Their altitude at the time was 7,000 feet. The unidentified object, according to their radar, appeared to be at an elevation of ten to 25 degrees. Three passes were made in an attempt to close on the object. In each instance the pilots reported that their radar led them first upward and then down toward a specific point on the ground. Ionized clouds are believed to be the cause of some unidentified radar returns. Thunderstorm activity is identifiable by radar, and radar is used for the purpose of avoiding thunderstorms. In addition, radar has picked up many objects first reported as "unidentified phenomena" which were later identified as aircraft, birds, balloons, ice formations in the air, or other known aerial objects or manifestations. Policy Regarding Attempted Interception No orders have been issued by the Air Defense Command to its fighter units to fire on unidentified aerial phenomena. The Air Defense Command is charged with air defense of the U nited States, and its mission is to attack anything airborne which io known or appouro to be bootlie. T hio ohould not bo interpreted to m oon that our piloto will fire haphazardly on anything that flies. - 5 - Attempts at Interception are not made every time that unidentified images appear briefly on an Air Force radar-scope. Current Air Force interceptors ore short-range, short-duration, high-speed aircraft and can be employed most effectively when it is possible to track a target by visual or radar means so that its position in the air at some future time may be predicted with a reasonable degree of accuracy. M ethods of Evaluating The first step in evaluating sightings of unusual aerial phenomena is to collect all available data and check it against known airborne objects such as balloons, aircraft, missiles, meteors, and weather phenomena. If still unexplained, reports from reliable sources, with sufficient details, are turned over to specialists in various scientific fields for further analysis. Future Plans for Evaluating As stated earlier, there is a need for better reports from trained observers using adequate equipment. The Air Force intends to 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) and registers them on film. The principle involved is that used by astronomers in determining the composition of the stars. In tills manner Air Force scientists may be able to determine the characteristics of the phenomena and subsequently identify the source. Another proposal Involves the use of a continuously operating Schmidt telescope equipped with a camera. This telescope has a wide aperture lens and is capable of covering a cone of 150 degrees or nearly the whole sky from horizon to horizon. This equipment will make it possible to get on a series of photo­ graphic plates a complete record of what happens in the sky at night, K^ "Saucers" Are Not The Air Force has stated in the past, and reaffirms at the present time, that these unidentified aerial phenomena are not a secret weapon, missile or aircraft, developed by the U nited 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 for as is known there is nothing in them that is associated with material or vehicles that are directed against ths U nited 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 N m idsumm er of 1947, the ~ ed States Air Force, already concerned with such problem s as the develop­ m ent of guided m issiles and supersonic craft, the rigging up of radar networks, and its controversy with the N avy over unification, found itself confronted by another, and com pletely different, head­ ache—the flying saucer. People in every section of the country were seeing strange objects that streaked across the sky at tremendous speeds, and while these people, who included such prac­ ticed students of the heavens as air­ plane pilots, farmers, and the Lieutenant Governor of Idaho, were not able to identify the things they had seen, they were able to describe them vividly and unforgettably. The newspapers called the first of these m ysterious objects a flying saucer, taking their cue from the m an who reported having seen it and who described it as saucerlike, and the nam e stuck, although later people re­ ported seeing things that looked like fly­ ing chrom ium hubcaps, flying dim es, flying teardrops, flying gaslights, flying -.^-cream cones, and flying pie plates. As m ore and m ore curious things were seen in the skies, cautiously quizzical editorials began to appear in the papers, and the President and m em bers of Con­ gress received a deluge of letters de­ m anding an explanation. M any of the letter writers had concluded that the objects, whatever they m ight be, were m anned by Russians, and that as soon as their pilots had reconnoitred suffi­ ciently, they would return loaded with atomic bom bs. Others thought the earth was being visited by space ships from another planet. Still others suspected that our own Air Force was secretly testing som e new form of aircraft. Everyone agreed, however, that it was up to the Air Force, as the cus­ todian of our welkin, to explain the flying objects and, if necessary, to repel them. The result was the launching by the Air Force, on January 22, 1948, of a special investigation, an investiga­ tion that, though it has reached num ­ erous conclusions, is still under way and has yet to put the public m ind at rest. It appears that, aside from the hope of reassuring a jittery populace, the Air Force, in em barking upon this under­ taking, had any or all of three things in m ind. It m ay well have shared the civilian concern over what, if anything, the Russians m ight have to do with the reported phenom ena, and it m ay even have felt that to insure a thoroughgoing SOM E T HIN G IN T HE 5KY investigation there was certainly no harm in assum ing for the m om ent that the era of interplanetary travel had arrived and the earth had becom e an objective for journeys from else­ where in the solar system. Or—and this would not necessarily exclude the first two considerations—the Air Force m ay have been setting up a smoke screen to protect, in the interest of national secu­ rity, the secret of som e experimental fly­ ing objects of its own that only a trusted few of its m em bers knew about. What­ ever the purpose, the investigation, with which I have been in touch from tim e to time, has seem ingly been exhaustive. The Air Force personnel originally assigned to it was later augm ented by astronom ers, psychologists, physicists, m eteorologists, physicians, and repre­ sentatives of the F.B.I. The investiga­ tion, which soon became popularly known as Project Saucer, was first headed by Lieutenant General Benja­ m in W. Chidlaw, Com manding Gen­ eral of the Air M ateriel Com mand, and its base was, and is, at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. The project’s task turned out to involve a m ixture of old-fashioned detection, scientific analysis, public rela­ tions, and the study of a widespread state of m ind. In December, 1949, after checking, over a period of two years, three hundred and seventy-five reports of intruders in the sky, the Air Force publicly called it quits, but Project Saucer was not actually disbanded. N a­ tional security, the Air Force announced at the tim e, was not endangered. The flying saucers were apparitions, it said, all attributable either to a failure to recognize conventional objects, to hoaxes, or to a m ild form of m ass hys­ teria. The Air Force, however, did not let the m atter rest there. N ot long after the apparent dem ise of Project Saucer, I had a talk in Wash­ ington with Brigadier General Ernest M oore, then chief of Air Force In­ telligence, in the course of which he m ade four categorical statem ents that I felt sure he had m ade m any tim es be- Clipped from Th® N SW YORKER Septem ber 6, 1952 pages 64 through 82 page 62 fore. S . off,” he s ^d’ “^ Russians have nothing to do so-called saucers; I’ll swear tc ,..<-- * a stack of Bibles, if you like. Sec ond, we don’t have any secret new typ 'es of aircraft that could have started all t his com m o­ tion. Third, nobody, in our c -pinion, has spotted space ships from s om e other planet. Fourth, everything our investi­ gators learned has been m ade available to the public.” '“■"'HE first saucer in.cident occurred 1 on the afternoon of June 24,1947, when Kenneth Ar.nold, bn a business trip for a Boise, TdaAo, firm that m akes fire-control equips ent, was flying his H, .vav^p xAe from < Chehalis, Washing­ ton, to Yakim a, V -'ashington. The re­ flection of a brigl. 't flash on one wing caught his eye. F-Ie turned and, at a distance he tho ught was about twenty m iles, saw what he took to be nine tail­ less aircraft he ading toward M ount Rainier “T *■ could see their outlines quite ; ..only against the snow,” Air Force Intelligence quoted him as saying. “They flew very close to the m ountain- tops, directly south to southeast, down the hog’s-back of the range, flying like geese, in a diagonal, chainlike line, as if they were linked together ... a chain of saucerlike things at least five m iles long, swerving in and out of the high m ountain peaks. They were flat.. . and so shiny that they reflected the sun like a m irror.” Ar­ nold said he watched the saucers for three m inutes and estimated their speed at about twelve hundred m iles an hour. Air Force technicians, consulted by newspaper­ m en, said that any object m oving that fast would be invisible to the naked eye at Arnold’s estimated distance. The press scoffed at Ar­ nold’s story, and he was re­ sentful. “Even if I see a ten-story building flying through the air, I won’t say a word about it,” he de­ clared, and when he sot back to Boise he wrote a series of ar­ ticles about his experience for a m ag­ azine called Fate. N o sooner were the skeptical news­ paper accounts printed than dozens of people turned up with sim ilar re­ ports. Another resident of Boise spotted a disc over that city, “a half circle in shape, clinging to a cloud and just as bright and silvery-looking as a m irror caught in the rays of the sun.” Lieu- tenant Governor Donalc of Idaho, disclosed that had seen a com et-shaped over the western part of the state. It finally dipped below the horizon, he said. (Later on, the personnel of Proj­ ect Saucer decided that the Lieutenant Governor had been looking at either Saturn or M ercury.) Four cops in Port­ land, Oregon, saw a group of discs “wobbling, disappearing, and reappear­ ing.” Reports of other phenom ena having been seen in the skies appeared in the papers alm ost daily. Two Arm y officers at Fort Richardson, Alaska, reported seeing a spherical object flying through the air at incredible speed and leav­ ing no vapor trail; som e fisherm en off N ewfoundland saw a series of aerial flashes, silver to reddish in color; a lady in Oregon watched a group of saucers spell out “P-E-P-S-I,” and alerted her neighbors to the presence of foreign agents practicing a secret code in our skies; an Oklahom a City m an saw a saucer “the bulk of six B-29s;” and a prospector in the Cascade M oun­ tains of Oregon saw six saucers in a group, banking in the sun—“round, silent, and not flying in form ation.” On the Fourth of July, there were twelve reports of saucers in widely separated parts of the United States. One of these saucers, sighted at Trenton, N ew 0 (.^ oojeci tiling Jersey, was traced to a fireworks display. Dr. Paul Fitts, an Ohio State Uni­ versity psychologist who was for a tim e attached to Project Saucer, considered this crowded condition in the holiday skies the result of m ass suggestibility, the sam e jum py trait that caused Am ericans to see Zeppelins overhead during and after the First World War. “Our graphs show that saucer incidents al­ ways increase dram atically after publicity,” he has since told m e. “The sky, you know, has been a source of exciting visions from time im mem orial, and its attrac­ tion is particularly strong in our jittery m om ents.” F ROM the beginning, the officers in charge of Project Saucer recognized a peculiar difficulty in their assignm ent. “If you look out the window and see som ething, how can I prove or disprove what it was if I didn’t see it and you can’t tell m e m uch about what you page 64 Sug^st. surest record ehunfjer,; • Plays up to 14 records at one loading • The only record and changer designed for each other • Records change from the center—the modern way • Includes 86 worth of RCA Victor al­ bum s at'no extra charge. 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Y. saw?” M ajor -e ’ -gs, who was then the chiei W,.< A L L W O O L W M ariposA BLAN K E T M ADE BY SHU L E R & BeN N IN G HO FE N HA M IL TO N O HIO ing a routine patrol for tb ^N or'^Da- kota N ational Guard, and ju ked the tower at the Fargo M unicipal .Air­ port for clearance to land when he saw what seem ed to be another plane’s tail­ light a thousand yards away. He queried the tower, and the m en there reported that the only other aircraft over the field was a Piper Cub. Gorm an could see the Cub plainly outlined below him . Curi­ ous, he flew toward the light. “It was about six to eight inches in diameter, clear white, and com pletely round, with a sort of fuzz at the edges,” Gorm an later told investigators, adding that he saw “no outline of anything” around the edges. “It was blinking on and off. As I approached, however, the light sud­ denly became steady and pulled into a sharp left bank. ... I dived after it and brought m y m anifold pressure up to sixty inches, but I couldn’t catch up with the thing. It started gaining alti- tude and again m ade a left bank. I put m y F-51 into a sharp turn and tried to cut the light off in its turn. By then, we were at about seven thousand feet. Suddenly it m ade a sharp right turn and we headed straight at each other. Just when we were about to collide, I guess I got scared. I went into a dive and the light passed over m y canopy at about five hundred feet. Then it m ade a left circle about a thousand feet above, and I gave chase again.” Gorm an fol­ lowed the light up to fourteen thousand feet, where, after another near collision, his ship went into a power stall and the light disappeared to the northwest. Gorm an noticed no sounds or exhaust­ trail odors. He had gunned his plane up to four hundred m iles an hour with­ out gaining on the light. It was able to m aintain an extrem ely steep angle of ascent, far greater than that of his Air Force fighter. “When I attempted to turn with [the light], I blacked out tem porarily, due to excessive speed,” he said. “I am in fairly good physical condi­ tion and I do not believe there are m any, if any, pilots who could withstand the turn and speed effected by that light and rem ain conscious.” Project Saucer suspected that Gor­ m an was tilting with a weather balloon. For one thing, it learned that the Fargo weather station had released a lighted balloon only ten m inutes before Gor­ m an’s patrol Stopped being routine. The object’s steady, practically vertical climb suggested the behavior of a bal­ loon. z\ technician who once worked on Project Saucer told m e recently that chasing a weather balloon with an air­ plane is com parable to diving to the bottom of a pool after a hollow rubber page 7-»72 CA R .nany saucers - * holding one in m y ov^ The rancher forwai' .en I’m Wright Field, where it was identified as a rem nant of one of the incendiary bal­ loons the hopeful Japanese dispatched across the Pacific during the war in an effort to start forest fires. Even pictures taken of supposed sau­ cers failed to im press the experts. There was the case of a m an in Phoenix, Arizona, who spotted a flat gray ob­ ject spiralling up and down in the sky at a speed that he estim ated at between four and five hundred m iles an hour. He snapped two pictures of it with his Brownie. Prints were rushed to Project Saucer, and Dr. Irving Langm uir, the physicist and a N obel Prize winner, was asked to study them . The distinguished scientist learned that a thunderstorm had occurred just before the picture­ taking, and concluded that he was look­ ing at a couple of rather poor shots of a piece of paper being buffeted by the wind. AS tim e went on and the skies, appar- ently, continued to teem with fly­ ing saucers, the generals in the Penta­ gon, warm ing to their task, decided to enlarge the scope of the investigation. Com m anders of all Air Force installa­ tions in the country were ordered to assign Intelligence officers to look into sightings reported in their areas. The officers were instructed to solicit the as­ sistance of m unicipal police officials, who m ight be fam iliar with the personalities of the saucer observers. The F.B.I. was also called upon for assistance, and as­ signed agents to help interview people who reported that they had seen discs. The agents used a standard question­ naire, drawn up by Air Force Intelli­ gence, which called for such inform a­ tion as the saucer’s size, speed, color, and m aneuvers. The inform ation was usually transm itted to Wright Field, but som e stories were so obviously false and som e “evidence” so obvious­ ly trifling that the F.B.I. m en didn’t even bother to fill out the question­ naire. In Seattle, for instance, an alarm ed wom an called the police to in­ form them that a flam ing disc had land­ ed on her roof. The object turned out to be a hollow, drum -shaped affair m ade of plywood, with “USSR” crude­ ly daubed on it in paint. An F.B.I. m an found that a turpentine-soaked cloth had caused the flame. A practical joke, he decided. 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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 developm ent 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 beam s or rays of som e kind. They even speculated on whether the anti­ gravity shield that H. G. Wells thought up for his novel “The First M en in the M oon” would work; it wouldn’t, they decided. The supposition that interplan­ etary 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 unwieldy 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 m en, carry sufficient fuel to rem ain for any length of tim e in the earth’s dense atmosphere. The scientists noted, too, that the supposed spacem en showed a re­ m arkable lack of interest in the rest of the world, being, it would seem , alm ost unanim ous in their desire to see zlmerica first. “The sm all 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 astronom ers, I learned that they, in ad­ dition to seining out com ets, m eteors, 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 M ars took on a new urgency, and a new corollary: If there arc living creatures on M ars, would they be capable of building space ships? The astronom ers FO R STO RE N E A R W RITE HA YM A K E RS BY A VO N , t 47 W E ST 3 4TH ST. N E W Y< O R SE N O CHE CK O R M O N E Y O RD E R D IRE CTL Y T page 75, 76 that—that while the information they give m e m ay be m aibS^A their nam es never will be.” l^m ^T cases, Captain Ruppelt said, investigation has shown that the people he has inter­ viewed had been deceived by things that have been deceiving others all along—balloons, planes, m eteors, and so on—but a nettling residue of around twenty per cent of the cases have wound up in that exasperating old pigeonhole labelled “Unidentified.” N othing, for exam ple, could be found to account for the “som ething silvery directly overhead” reported by a m ystified Civil Aeronautics Adm inistration inspector at Terre Haute. A com m ercial pilot who, flying near Battle Creek, M ichigan, spotted “an oval-shaped silver object” ahead of his ship, posed a sim ilarly un­ solved problem , as did a highly respected naval officer, stationed at the dirigible base at Lakehurst, N ew Jersey, who re­ ported that he had stared through his binoculars at a brilliant im age m aking turns that were far too tight for any known aircraft. Twenty-five per cent of the observ­ ers interrogated by the Aerial Phenom ­ ena Officer in the last two and a half years have been m ilitary pilots. Eight per cent have been com m ercial pilots, som e with as m uch as twenty years’ ex­ perience in the air, and at one stage in the current phase of the investigation, even a few physicists at Los Alam os, N ew M exico, m en who m ake a fetish of objectivity, were interviewed after they reported having seen puzzling lights hovering above their atomic- energy laboratories. “If you took any one of these incidents by itself, it m ight not m ean m uch,” Captain Ruppelt said. “But in view of the num ber and calibre of the inform ants, you couldn’t help taking their claim s seriously.” In February, 1951, Dr. Urner Liddel, a nuclear physicist attached to the Office of N aval Research, at Wash­ ington, D.C., declared that at last, thanks to the lifting of certain security restrictions, he could provide the solution to the m ystery of the flying saucers: They were “skyhooks,” he said—bal­ loons a hundred feet in diameter, which the N avy had secretly been sending up for the past four years in order to study cosmic rays. 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Other pilots in the vicinity reported, however, that they could see nothing unusual. Toward daybreak, ten peculiar pips were counted sim ultaneously on Barnes’ screen. “There is no other conclusion I can reach but that for six hours on the m orning of the twentieth of July there were at least ten unidentifiable objects m oving above Washington,” Barnes wrote. “They were not ordinary air­ craft. . . . N or in m y opinion could any natural phenomena account for these spots on our radar. N either shooting stars, electrical disturbances, nor clouds could, either. Exactly what they are, I don’t know. N ow you know as m uch about them as I do. And your guess is as good as m ine.” A week later, at 9:08 P.M . on July 26th, the Air Route Traffic Con­ trol Center’s radarscope again showed unidentifiable objects over Washing­ ton. So did the screen at the Andrews Air Force Base, just outside the capi­ tal. Two jet interceptors, capable of doing six hundred m iles an hour, were dispatched from a base near N ew Castle, Delaware, to investigate. When the interceptors appeared on the radar­ scopes, they were guided toward the objects. One of the pilots sighted four lights approxim ately ten m iles in front of his plane and slightly above it, hut they vanished while he was trying to overtake them. Twenty m inutes later, he saw “a steady white light,” but within a m inute it, too, disappeared. “We have no evidence they were flying saucers,” an Air Force representative said later. “Conversely, we have no evidence they were not flying saucers. We don’t know what they were.” _ . As a result of these two incidents, particularly the one involving the inter­ ceptors, public agitation reached a new height. The Air Force was bom barded with hundreds of letters, telephone calls, and telegrams dem anding inform ation and offering advice. One of the sm aller airlines supplied its crews with cam eras and ordered them to photograph any saucers they encountered. A civilian wrote to the Air Force that he would let it in on “the secret” in return for a colonelcy. A Los Angeles pastor wrote to Einstein, beseeching him to clear up page 79, 80 < I ( tronom ers, whom ) ''"•lied “our best advisers ... in t^^^^ss of visitors from elsewhere,^Jpf^^.aph the sky continuously, but they had reported no saucers. The General was rem inded that m any of the people who had told of seeing the m ost spectacular things were considered the m ost reliable. He replied that he had no intention of discrediting them , but the fact rem ained 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 M iddle East. This m an, too, had been unable to obtain ac­ curate m easurements. “We have m any reports from credible observers of in­ credible things,” the General rem arked. Like General M oore, his predecessor in Project Saucer days, General Sam - ford denied that the Air Force was at­ tem pting to cover up secret experim ents. When he was asked if the saucers m ight be the guided m issiles of a foreign coun­ try, he replied that he didn’t see how, on the basis of their weird perform ances, they could be unless “someone” had achieved a m eans of developing unlim ­ ited power—“power of such fantastic higher limits that it is a theoretical un­ limited; it’s not anything that we can understand”—and utilizing it under conditions in which no m ass is involved. As for the latter, the General told the press, drawing a laugh, “You know, what ‘no m ass’ m eans is that there’s nothing there.” . W HILE General Samford’s inter­ view probably reassured the pub­ lic as evidence that the Air Force was still on the job, it did nothing to lessen the nation’s saucer-consciousness. The reporters had hardly thanked the Gen­ eral for his com m ents when, on .Au­ gust 1st, a Coast Guard photographer produced a picture showing four bizarre lights burning brilliantly in a daylight sky. He said he had taken it over Salem , M assachusetts. The next day, a Har­ vard astrophysicist called the photograph worthless because it was accom panied by no scientific data, such as temperature distribution and altitude. On August 6th, an Arm y physicist at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, created the equivalent of flying saucers in his laboratory by introducing m olecules of ionized air into a partial vacuum in a bell jar, and three days later an internationally known authori­ ty on atm ospheric conditions said of the physicist’s experim ent, “I know of no conditions of the earth’s atm osphere, high or low, which would duplicate J page 81, 82 7-26a ^Invoice of Contents from W ERAL BU REAU O F INVESTIGATIO N W ASH INGTO N, D. C. Date October b. 1052 Case References Directorate of Special Invest Consigned tc£he Inspector General INVESTIGATIO N O F PO SSIBLE U NIDENTIFIED FLYING O BJECT Department of the Air Force, The Pentagon W ashington, D. C. AttsM r. Gilbert R. Levy­ List of Contents PC-33951DE QI throughQ6 2 M r. M r. M r. M r. M r. Harbo, 7625 Conrad, 7142 Downing, 6228 Bowles, 7601 Parsons, 7121 SPECIAL IN STRUCTION S: M ail Room, place date of shipm ent and registry num ber; Shipping Room, show date of shipm ent and initial this invoice; then return it to person whose nam e is checked in column at right. After this checked nam e has been initialled, invoice should be placed in adm inistrative file. Date? October 28t 1952 Tot Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air force The Pentagon W ashington 85, D, C, Front John Edgar Hoover, Director 1AQ Federal Bureau of Investigation)RDE D • Subjeott FLTIHG SAUCERS^ ' There are attached for gour information a copy of a self-explanatory letter dated October 81, 1958, and the enclosures thereto, received by this Bureau from Mr, Harvel *• Reece, Mr, Reece has been advised that his letter has been referred to your Department, Mo further action is being taken in this matter by this Bureau,. N W5 19® & w ^ ^ uiwh «isrs" t 9 3 W c VOW ' UJrsh inG T on DC ns n'^n ■ ^.w^z wB0 STA N D A RD FO RM N O . 64 Office Memoranda UN ITED STATES GOVERN M EN T T O F RO M SU BJE CT : MR. A. H. BELMONTE V. P. KEAY^/^^^ FLYIN GSAUCERS ^^ DAT E : October 3,* \ Reference is made to an article which appeared in "The\Rew Yorker" dated September 6, 2952^ which is attached. This cuticle which was written by DanielS^ang contained inaccurate information regarding FBI investigations, indi­ cating that the FBI conducts certain inquires 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 fclaan Lac:_________ T ele. ttO l-__ K aas#________ GaM y present agreement has been set up with the Air Force whereby the Air Force conducts all investigations pertaining to flying saucers and the Bureau, upon receiving complaints merely turns the complaints over to the Office of Investigations (OSI), which in turn transmits the to Air Intelligence. Air Intelligence has set up Technical Intelligence Center at W right-Patterson of this nature, Special information the Air Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, for the purpose of coordinating and handling of research pertaining to flying saucers. Inquiry was conducted in order to determine, if possible, the source for the information appearing in the attached article regarding FBI investigations. Lieutenant Colonel L. L. Free in charge of the Espionage Branch, (Counter-Intelligence Division, Office of Special Investigati ons, advised that no one in OSI has been contacted by Lang, and he suggested direct contact by the Bureau Representative with Air Intelligence to determine if Lang had been in touch with anyone in that organisation in order to gather information for his article. Colonel C. M. Young, Executive Officer to Major General John A. Samford, Director of Air Intelligence, advised _that Lang has not^contacted General Samford's office. Colonel Young also telephonically contacted Captain Ruppelt of the Air Technical Intelligence Center, W right-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, on September 30, 1952. Captain 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 furnish reports on flying saucers. Ruppelt is under the impression that Mr. Lang made the story up t/| or picked it up from some magazine or newspaper article sometime back. Both Colonel Young and Captain Ruppelt are thoroughly familiar with Bureau policy pertaining to flying saucers. AA' Attachments (2) RE P O SE D ■ 116 ($w5*£S1®? IN DE XE D-1% .^ « *M Memorandum, for Mr, A, H, Belmont, 10/8/52 Colonel Young suggested that further contact be made with Mr, Albert Chop of the Office of Public Information, Office of the Secretary of Defense, who represents the Air Force in public relations contacts pertaining to flying saucer matters, Mr, Chop was contacted and advised that he was familiar with the attached "New Yorker" magazine article, He advised that Lang had gathered most of the material about two years ago when considerable publicity regarding flying saucers had appeared in newspapers. He does not know where Lang gathered the material at that time but assumes that he gathered it from various sources, such as other newspaper articles. W hen the recent publicity regarding flying saucers appeared in newspapers, Lang renewed his interest in flying saucers and attempted to bring his article up to date. He contacted Mr. Chop for further current information. Mr. Chop advised that he gave Lang some routine items of interest regarding flying saucer complaints and investigations by the Air Force, but that he instructed Mr. Lang not to contact the Air Technical Intelligence Center for further information from that source, Mr, Chop also advised that at no time was the FBI mentioned and that he has no idea where Lang obtained the information appearing in his article concerning FBI investigations, Mr, Chop advised that he is thoroughly familiar with Bureau policy pertaining to flying saucer 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, Mr, Chop advised that, if the Bureau desires, he would be glad to contact Lang to discreetly determine where Lang obtained his information indicating that the FBI conducts investigations pertaining to flying saucers, He stated that he could make this contact without indicating in any way the Bureau has contacted him, He was advised that his °ffer °f cooperation was appreciated, but that it was not desired that he make such an inquiry at the present time. There is attached a current mimeographed form containing current information regarding the whole flying saucer matter which was turned over by Chop, This is the information which - 2 - Memorandum for Mr. A. H. Belmont, 10/8/52 is ordinarily given to newspaper reporters or writers who make inquiry in the Office of Public Information. ACTION : N one. For your information. - 3 - ST^O /CD forA N O . 64 Office Memorandum T O MR, A. H. BELMON T F RO M V . KE AY UN ITED STATES GOVERN M EN T date.- October 27 1952 SU BJE CT : FLYING SAUCERS Harto_____ unexplainable sighting still feels flying sau SYNOPSIS: ^------ ' Tracy M ohr_________ Air Intelligence advised of another creditable and T,1,-“-— of flying saucers. Alr^^telligence ' XZZ _________ _ _ ters are optical illusions or ______ pherjggl phenomena but sons Military officials are ^ajtiJUuLLy considering the nossibility of interplanetary ships. BACKGROUND: You will recall that Air Intelligence has pre viously kept the Bureau advised regarding developments pertaining to Air Intelligence research on the flying saucer problem. Air Intelligence has previously advised that all research pertaining to this problem is handled by the Air Technical intelligence Center located at Wright ~Patt er son Air 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 c. m. Young, Executive Officer to Major General John Ar .Sanford., Director of Intelligence, Air Force, advised on Ocjoher 2R, 1952, that another recent ext remely creditable sighting had been reported to Air Intelligence. A Navy photographer, while traveling across the United States in his own car, saw a number of objects in the sky which appeared to be flying saucers. He id0% approximately thirt y~fi ve feet of motion-picture film, of these objects. He voluntarily submitted the film to Air Int elligence who had it studied by the Air Technical Intelligence Center. Experts at the Air Techniggl Intelligence Center have advised that, after careful study, there were as many as twelve to sixteen flying objects recorded on this film; that the possibility of weather balloons, clouds or other explainable ob jects has been Q O^pJetely ruled out; y and that they are at a complete loss to explain this most recent creditablesighting. The Air Technical Intelligence Center experts pointed out that they could not be optical illusions inasmuch as REC'O BELMONT OCT 28 - 53 PH ’52 ■ RECEIVE;]- • 01 SON nr- < -hi^ripF r t ^«£c»» Oct28 9 23AH’52 • " ^“"'^ ’ . ?v tUS4'^ COr !'0N ^iSOh N lA‘3®* "31 5 4 51 Pin? 8 57 AH’5 Memo to Mr, A. H, Belmont from V, P, Keay RE: FLYING SAUCERS that C Va toW t^& ’l-l-lO O Bi& -^3 ^ oota ^ xM 'oniioG ’fj la ^iriA ^w va nV* no a ^M ^st ,l-10 0 ^o-r-3 ;v bftntetrc o noil- TG '\r; © tit ■ :> • u ri. .^ s^: •' ■ ^ bonbieni Bitts n t insn is t^u 96 Ili j' BO L TO V-"' ona k>»v9i la d ton a t Ft BsV oS v;iq-ri a ' fioonuS sM K W -w il H.«fl* ■ • od a ■•’ nor Foo sid‘1 . • 1 • ■ ^o -Ja /o o^i . 'a on 0 0 d'dr Va no ■•tn or;. ^Ii* .rosFr.' -a a ’ 3 j^^0 lL f90 Jj 1W CW /3 Q 0 i3 3 y Exact Spelling All References Subversive Ref ___ M ail File Searchers Initial 7 ' Date / ^ - ^ A: 2 Restricted to Locality of FILE NU M BER SERIALS 6*/ - 3 Xoo/-/-/^ r £ ^/^ 7 Initialed MR. JONES Jm28 1109 AM *53 RECEIVED FBI U S DEPT OF JUSTICE COPY:fcr * » z TO: M R. A. H. BELM ON T DATE: Decem ber 5, 1>52 FROM : V. P. KEAY SUBJECT: PROPOSED STUDY ON THE °"FLYIN G SgUGERS" PHEN OM EN A; IN TELLIGEN CE ADVISORY COM M ITTEE Pursuant to instructions. Supervisor M .W. Kuhrtz of the Liaison Section attended the Intelligence Advisory Com m ittee (IAC) m eeting on Decem ber 1|, 1952. N one of the agenda item s are of direct interest to the Bureau; however. Dr. H.M . Chadwell, central Intelligence Agency (Oja), directed the m em bers' attention to som e aspects‘of the "flying saucers" pheno­ m ena. He said that a recent presentation of a theory on "saucers" was m ade by a Germ an atom ic scientist, wh ch fact has cased the British to initiate considerable intelligence effort into this m tter. Accor ing to . r. Chadwell, efforts are being m ade to obtain the Germ an scientist's caper on this theory. Also, it was stated that t recent "saucers" obser­ vation in Africa presents som e evidence that the "saucers" fre not a m e­ teorological phenom ena, which theory has been held to date by the Air Force. Instead, this letter incident indicated the possibility of the "saucers" being a scientific developm ent. The details of this Afric n observation were not nre ented; however, appropriate contact will be m ade by the Bureau's Liaison section with the Air Force to determ ine the details of tils latter report. As a result of the above, the M ilitary m em bers suggested a logical approach which would call for a group of scientists to m ake a study of the new "saucers" data in an effort to identify the phenom ena. If an identification can be m ade by the scientists and it can be deter­ m ined that the "saucers" ere a scientific developm ent, then IAC should determine a further course of action for the U.^. Governm ent. It was further suggested that the IAC should only concern itself with this m att r on the basis that a com petent scientific group m ight determ ine the " v?e "saucers" to be a scientific developm ent unde.’ the control of our enem y^ Dr. Chadwell was directed to draft a paper on this problem for ' IAC consideration. Upon receipt of this draft, appropriate Bureau re­ com mendations will be m ade prior to IAC approval. I ACT. Oil: Liaison will obtain the details of the "flying saucers" observation in Africa from the Air Force.■ M WK:lw ALL IN FORM AT ION CON T AIN E D HE RE IN T SBfmSSlFlE IJ i^y^y? ^- / . HO T ReCO RPM E © ' JAN 6 1953 iA i.iL .#a m onroiiA i 53 FEB 161953 9 ___ :fcr TO M R. A. H. BELM ON T DATE: Decem ber 23, 1952 FROM : V. P. KEAY SUBJECT PROPOSED STUDY ON THE ” LYIN G SAUCERS” PHEN OM EN A; I N T ELL _ gJiICE ADV1SORY CO M M I I TEE Reference is m ade to m y m em orandum Decem ber 5, 1952. You will recall that at an Intelligence Advisory Com m ittee (IAC) m eeting held Decem ber L|., 1952, Dr. H.M . ^hsdwell, Central Intelligence gency(CIAi) directed the m em bers’ attention to som e aspects of the "flying saucers” phenom ena. He m ade reference to a presentation of a theory on "saucers" which had been m ade by a German atom ic scientist and which fact had caused the British to initiate considerable intelligence effort into t e m atter. Chadwell also m ade reference to a recent "saucers” obser­ vation in Africa. He did not furnish details on the African observation. The Lieison Agent contacted M essrs* Ralph ^lerk, (b)(3)(A) and “ich rd ielm s, til of the CIA, for the purpose of obtaining additions details concerning the "saucers” report which centered in .fries. These individuals furnished inform ation reflecting that a few weeks ago an explosion of Large proportion was picked up on several seism ographs and it was indicated that the explosion was centered in central Africa. According to Helm s and Clark, reports of unknown reliability were re­ ceived indicating that the explosions m ight have em anated from a flying saucer. M ore recent reports received from e r e ■ . t cho d up c n of a m eteor. (b) (3)(B)W W The Liaison -“-gent inquired regarding the "saucers” theory w nich reuortedly was presented by a Gerr • n atom ic scientist. Clark advised that the report on the scientist had not been received by the CIA as yet. ACTION : TBits ratter will be followed by the Liaison Agent for the nur-'\ nose of obtaining additional details concerning the "saucers" theory of the Germ an .scientist. SJF:lw All IN FORM AT ION CON T AIN E D ^-^.^y- M O T RE C^a oir^ ^ JAN 6 1953 > vi i? ^53 § init ials on original o i^ORDED-841 Da ftFebruary 11, 1953 M T°: Front Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon W ashington S3, D, C, John Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investtgati on Subjectt FLUN G DISCS MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CON CERN ING There are attached for your information tn the captioned matter a Photostat of a letter dated January 80, 1953, received by this Bureau from Mr, Robert D, W olf, 19 North Forsythe Street, Franklin Indiana, with the enclosures referred to therein, and copy of this Bureau's reply to Mr, W olf, W o investigation is being conducted by this Bureau in this natter, T olson________ Ladd__________ M l cholo_______ Belaont ««_______ O lavln________ H art>o^ Ronen_________ T racy__________ U up r.l in_______ M ohr___________ T ele. Ra. H olloM n_ Candy EHM:erne / CO M M — F BI ?^111953 MAILED 30 uttBia h January 27, 1953 ^(pRDtO-^ Mr, Robert D, W olf 19 North Forsythe Street Franklin, Indiana Dear Mr, Volf: Tour letter dated January 20, 1953, hae been received, together with enclosures, Rm .____ Although I would like to be of service in connection with your request, I would like to point out that the FBI is strictly a fact-finding agency and it is not within the scope of its prescribed authority to make evaluations or draw conclusions as to the character or integrity of any organisation or individual, I know you will understand the reason for this rule and will ap­ preciate my inability to be of aseistance to you tn this regard, The literature and letter you forwarded are being returned, 1HW 1 JAN 2 8 1953 £M 1ILE D2O Sincerely yours, John Edgar Hoover Director - Indianapolis, with copy of incoming and signed by Albert X, Bender, copy of letter co - N ew Haven, with copy of incoming and copy of letter signed by Albert X, Bender, ATTENTION SAC's: (see next page) DIC:dep:bkh )U ^30^ £3 2 1 * VIM j O S Q 3 JIA M £5.1^1 I? * sjitsni 40 m a o s I 9 J w on* '’K w W ATTENTION SAC's; Correspondent also enclosed a copy of the January 19, 1953 issue of "Space Review", the publication of The International ^lying Saucer Bureau, indicating the address as Post Office Box 241, Bridgeport, Connecticut, This small per iodical contains news of various I.F.S.B, groups throughout the United States and England and news items relating to flying saucers. N o references can be located in Bufiles on the I.F.S.B.; "Space Review" or Albert K. Bender, JOHN SON COUN T Y DE PART M E N T DF CIVIL DE FE N SE M ON ROE AN D JACKSON ST RE E T S FRAN KLIN , IN DIAN A ROBERT D. WOLF Director 20 January 1953 M r. J. Edgar H oover Director Federal Bureau of Investigation W ashington, 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* W e have been having sone success with our Ground O bservation Corps as we have four (4) posts here in the county-^ P ^ d Last Fall I was contacted by one of our local business men wanting to know if I would be interested in joining tJj^International Flying Saucer Bureau. I told him that I would and did join with the idea fully in mind of having the local people who are interested in Flying Saucers also work in our Civil Defense Program. W e are only too willing to co-operate in any way we can with Civil Defense. The city of Franklin is approximately twenty (20) miles southwest of Indianapolis, on the dual lane highway U S ^31. ;, I am enclosing a letter which was received last O ctober, as well as the current //issue o?^STACE REVIEV/. W ould like to know if this organization has been cleared or is subversive in any way. I would appreciate your expediting this information back to us so that vze will know what steps to take in further enlisting interested persons in our program. If you do not require the enclosures please return them. /.H ome Address: ' 19 North Forsythe St. Franklin, Indiana. soi-xi MR. JONES Jam 22 2 26 pH’53 RECEIVE'S FBI U S DEPT OF JUSTICE j*^ 118 8 albert k. bender President anti Editor M AX KREN GEL Vice-Pres, an J Twas ALAN Q RIEVM AN Secretary FRED ]. BEN DER Historian IN T E RN AT IO N AL CO U N CIL ROBERT N WEBSTER Editor- "Fate" M agazine WILSON “BOB” TU' KtR Author — Editor of ELUOTT ROCK M ORE Edito* . Publisher “Saucer Review” GEORGE D. FAWCETT Lecturer • Saucenan# Collets ion STAN LEY E. CROUCH E ditor - Science and Culture M agazine FRAN KLIN M . DIET. Editor and Publisher “A U i* possible to one w ho believes” h eadqu arters P . O . BO X 241 BRIDGE P O RT 2, CO N N . O ctober ?6, 1952 Greet Britain Branch 71 Chedworth Road H etfield, Bristol 7, E ngland BRITISH REPRESEN TATIVE E. L PLUN KETT M r H . Frahm 949 x. Jeffei .. > tr* -t Fracklin, Indiana M r. Frahn.: r> e again I am happy to vrite to you about and your fine work in helping our organization grow larger and stronger your last letter you asked what course of action ar cluo should take in connection with IF >B. I -ould su gest thefollowing (5) (6) (7) Franklin, treasurer H old your where you local Chairman of the IFSB in Indiana. Also aoooint a local and secret?-ry. meetings at least t ice a month can di cluo activities. L'se saucer hajpenings and - local hall, or better yet, h . . d the .'et : s at each -others homes xl wutn you cert, in portion of may oe retained by M r. ^ick Campoel1, n IFSB and sh .. . ut/ fully for the IFSB and is now the only ity in the world that has the m ost m em­ bers in our organization. Through the great efforts and work of M r. Louis Frahm , »usiness m an, M r. Jack W. M oore, police- nan; M r. Robert Wolf, civilian defense director, and M r. Dick Cam pbell, IFSB Representative for Indiana, this great ac- om plishm ent was m ade possible. At this publication, Franklin can claim 20 m em­ bers with ten from nearly towns, giving r total of 30. Since all this interest has been iroused M r. Frahm plans to form a city group with their own chairm an, secretary nd treasurer Am ong the m em bers you vill find policem en, librarians, m echanics, om ■ r lal pilots, business m en, bus driv- rs, i< nts, etc The group plans to pur- hast ■ ■ one of suitable power In ad ition •■ ‘> iey plan to ng up a 3% x l^ Gr.iflcs m era with an optii al type ,cu 'Hide ... ■ .-. i n door han lie on each ide ;- ».- ig This is the equip­ m ent the. । an .tart with l ater, if fi­ nances perm it, they m ay build a portable ad ar set Funke Indicia, and nearby towns, iave beer tun cr in having had at least our sight,. ,.s this past sum m er Two were »itnessed by M r Frahm and M r. M oore, deports of thev sightings are reviewed in his issue of Spa <■ Review-. L U IS L U HRIN G N A M E D PU E RTO RICA N RE PRE SE N TA TIVE M r Luis Luhring of Punta San iago, Puerto Run, has accepted the position of R .-re tentative tor the island ot Puerto Ri " He will handle all IFSB business in that place Write to Box 23, Punta Santi­ ago. Puerto Rico. M r Luhring is a very jpibk m an and will aid the IFSB greatly O U R PRE SID E N T HE A RS FRO M PRO F E IN STE IN M r Al K Bender, President of IFSB. eceived a letter from Professor Einstein w ith this m essage "Having no experience m d only superficial knowledge in the field I regret not to be able to com ply witfi .our requests M r Bender wanted his ■pinion ’lu .'Icing sau> . rs This was • Protc.- ■ s . ply. 2 SPACE REVIEW SA U CE RS IN THE N E W S M ayag u ez, Pu erto Rico, Oct. 3, 1952— Strange objects were sighted by two per­ sons in M ayaguez on Oct. 3, they were cruising East and were red in color. It was about 10:30 p.m . when they were sighted. N orway and Sweden, Oct. 13, 1952— During October the N orwegian Govern­ m ent stated that a strange (Object resem b­ ling a saucer landed on N orwegian soil. German experts are claiming that the de- s ices are or Russian origin, and the des- i ription given by N orway fits the descrip- ion given by Germ an experts. Stockholm, .Sweden, has also been sighting strange objects. M elbou rne, A u stralia, Sept. 13, 1952 —A young wom an sighted a noiseless green ball flying too fast to be a plane or a m eteor. She said • sm elled like a rotten egg Stu ttg art. < ny. N ov. 1, 1952 At the recem entists from 12 coun­ tries gathered they stated that saucers *rc not from M ars or any other planet ' -v said they are m erely optical and • ™ pl • 'luM ons. N ew York—A terntu air >fc place over a sm all area of Lot . N .Y., which broke windows, racked '• walks and caused general m ic. There were no planes around or ■duled at that time, O e or disapprove the existence of saucers. It has no affiliation with the Government irm ed for.ee, or to any society to which its m em bers m ay belong. M ost of the m ein. - have beet five years. They represent all inn rested parti* m an in the street. The com m ittee insists of M i attached to engineering, who is rh< President of the Territorial Air Force, who ■ the secret , tion engineering inspector; D haans, a stuc Greager, an astronom er and engm < r. Aim s of the com m ittee are orrespon m ately find the origin of flying s and th M r H. H. Fulton, and M t R La1 (Council <>f IFSB We hope to establish t • sentatisi i N ew Zealand. CSI sent to U s spots w saucers have been sighted wit! on this aill be m ade in our next issue. \X and hope they will be a success. studying flying saucer reports for at least astronom ers, scientists, aviators, and the H H. Fulton, a sergeant in the R.N .Z.A.F. CSI of N Z; M r. R. J. Lavarrs, a m ember ■ of CSI of N Z; M r. G. H Gilm ore, avia­ studying for a science degree; and E. J. - th kindred bodies overseas, and to ulti- •m parison. been m ade m em bers of the International relations with this society and get a rep- large m ap of N ew Zealand showing all ory of each sighting. A com plete report CSI of N eu Zealand the best of luck 4 SPACE REVIEW E D ITO RIA L In 1492 Colum bus discovered a new world after traveling thousands of m iles across the great expanse of unknown waters called the Atlantic Ocean. It was a great adventure, yet one that was laughed at, ridiculed, and even spoke of as a "folly”. Here was a sm all group of m en searching tor what lay beyond the known, endeavor­ ing to unfold the m ysteries of lands that were not supposed to exist. All they had were three sm all ships laden with provisions that they estimated would last the journey. The seas were infested with m onsters, so rhe skeptics said, and the world was flat with a dropping off place. Columbus proved these fallacies to be wront, when he landed in the West Indies. The years directly ahead of us will see another great adventure such as this. A small group of m en will assem ble in a certain designated place, clim b into their ship, a ship vastly different than that of Colum bus s tim e. This ship will be a rocket shop, and its oc­ cupants will shoot off into the vast . a of space to find new worlds, new peoples, and new frontiers. They will be laughed at, they will be ridiculed, and the whole thing will be called the greatest "foils on earth, but will it be such? Time has proven that im possibilities becom e realities, the autom obile, th< airplane, radio, telephone, telegraph, television, and the sm ashing of the atom are definite proof. All is possible to one who believes,—and I am a sound believer! FRO M THE A SSO CIA TE E D ITO R S D E SK The m ysteries of space have lo- . assm ated m ost people on earth. One need not be onom er to gaze in awe at th it which unfolds before he eyes as we gaze sky- ■n any clear night. vastness of space is diffhur to explain, even for astronomers. When distances ■ n of it is sim pler for learned m en to use the term "light years" than m iles. The >f celestial bodies suspended in spa. t like our own earth are unknown. The g, ue from m illions on up. But they rem ain just that—guesses. who m ake our hom e on a m ere cinder of m atter in the eyes of space, cannot be nai's High to think that intelligent life exists only here. Those who believe that there is a pu'pose lor everything which happens, should agree that these m illions of bodies in spa i m ust serve m ore of a purpose than just twinkling brightly on a clear night. Published quarterly by Albert K. Bender, Editor; M ax Krengel, Associate Editor; Printed by Reliable Press, Bridgeport, Conn Subscription Price: four issues, to m em bers, $1.00, to non m em bers, $1.40 per year. Individual copies $.35. Exclusive publication of the IFSB. P.O Box 241, Bridgeport 2, Conn , U.S.A. Send all news and articles to this address. SPACE REVIEW 5 SCIE N CE FICTIO N N E W S A la n C. Rievm a n Victor Root, Illinois Rep. of IFSB, has som e Science-Fiction m ags for sale, or free in exchange. He is selling them for a sm all fee Write to IFSB for address. The DECEM BER, 1952, issue of F AT E m agazine is a m ust to all IFSB m em bers and officers. It contains an article by Cur- tis Fuller, entitled, "Let's Get Straight About the Saucers " A com plete detailed story of the incident of the scoutm aster described in our January issue, is discussed with a picture of the scoutm aster. SU B- S< RIBE TO FATE M AGAZIN E AN D KEEP UP TO DATE ON THF SAUCERS Write t< 806 Dem pster Street Evanston, Illinois N ew Pocket Books on Stands Dell N o 627, When W ' ids Collide by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balm er. Pocket Book N o 90S, "N ew' Tales of Space and Time", ' Ravm ond J. Healy. Thanks to Ray Palmer for our letter in the December issue of "Other World* Clark Publishing Co., 806 Dem pster St . Evanston, Illinois. Let's subscribe. N EW BOOK BY VIKIN G PRESS Across the Space Frontier”, edited by Cornelius Ryan, $3.95, Viking, N ew York RAN DOM HOUSE HAS DON E IT AGAIN WITH: By Space Ship to the M oon", written by Jack Coggins and Fletcher Pratt, foreword by Willy Ley $1. St IEN CE FICTION N EWS LE ITER, by our Council M em ber, "Bob" Tucker, P.O. Box 702, Bloomington, Illinois. THE UN ITED STATES ROCKET SO ( IETY, Box 29, Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Hollywood is com ing out with two good m ovies: "War of the Worf'-, and "The < onquest of Space”. SAUCER REVIEW, by Elliott Rock m ore, a m em ber of our Council. P.O. Box 1 18, Wall St Station, N ew York 5, N .Y Owners of tape recorders or wire re­ corders Join T.R.I. (Tape-respondence International. Send your voice to your cor­ respondents) 3488—22nd St., San Fran- cisco 10, Calif. BORDERLAN D SCIEN CES RE­ SEARCH ASSOCIATES located at 3524 Adam s Ave., San Diego 16, California, would like to have IFSB m em bers join their society. M any new Science Fiction M ags are hit­ ting the newsstands and som e are good while others are the usual run. A few of the better ones are: Tops in SF; Science Fiction Quarterly and Fantastic. Two good S-F books: "Robots Have N o Tails" by Lewis Padgett and "Player Pi­ ano" by Kurt Vonnegut. Both hum orous line. The officers of IFSB are planning on is­ suing a 12-page booklet som etim e next year with a com plete record on all saucer reports that they now have collected. This booklet will not be a regular issue of Space Review ", but a separate issue and will sell for 50c to everyone. Our Presi­ dent, M r. Bender, will write the foreword with comm ents throughout by officials of IFSB. The booklet will be entitled: IFSB REPORTS ON THE SAUCERS If inter­ ested, write! We would like m em bers and officers to send in snapshots of themselves so that when the tim e com es for us to print pic- ures in Space Review, we will have the photos available. M EN TION SPACE REVIEW” when writing to any of above m entioned pub- ' nations. This page will be elim inated in future *sues, am i will be replaced by artkles on saucers". 6 SPACE REVIEW “M Y THE O RY” by IFSB M em bers THEORY N O. 6—-Subm itted by BARBARA KN ORR, M em ber from Connecticut Everybody seem s to believe that the "saucers”, whatever they are, com e from this Solar System . I do not believe any other planet but ours can support intelligent life. Per­ haps plant life, but not hum an. I do believe that if our planet can support life, why not other planets in other Solar System s. I do not believe that these people with to destroy us because if they had they could have done so long ago. Also, how do we know that these things we see are not beings them selves. THEORY N O. 7 Subm itted by Representative LOUIE M ASON ICK, JR., of M innesota M y theory is one m ost IFSB m em bers wm to have. First, I believe they are from an­ other planet. AU those stars m ust have som ething going around them. All those celestial bodies m ust be up there for som e reason, besides to look at. Then, also, they m ay even be from our Solar System . I do not think an official agency 4 our governm ent should com e out and say— we do not know what they are and whether or not they are a m enace.” The best way to reveal the objects would be through clubs like rhe IFSB. I do not believe that they are a m enace. I think there is intelligent life on then' and that they are just observing us THEORY N O H -Subm itted by Representative ALAN RIEVM AN of Connecticut M y theory on the origin of the dying saucers’ is that they are definitely real and are from one of the planets of our Sola- System . I do not believe that they are from one of the other Solar System s. These "neighbors” probably thought that our planet could not have intelligent life upon it, but with the : «t atom ic explosion they m ay have changed their m inds RY N O. 9—Subm itted by Reprcsentasoc VICTOR ROOT of Illinois M y theory is that the flying saucers" arc m anned ships controlled and operated by intelligent creatures who are scouting our world. They will not try to m ake contact with us for m any reasons. One is that w are too w arlike and em otional. Another is that we have diseases which m ay harm or even kill them Som e day when we reach out and touch the planets we m ay m eet them. A ran of intelligent creatures other than ourselves, cer­ tainly does exist. 1 HEORY N O. 10—Submitted by Al kN ST AZER. M em ber from California 1 think that the "flying saucers arc from the solar system of ALPHA or PROXIM A CEN TUARI. M ost likely the 3rd or 4th planet. The planet is probably about 4000 m iles in diam eter and two-thirds as big as the earth. Sonu other reasons are that Centauri is too far distant for observation of such a sm all body as a planet. This star is of about the sam e size and the sam e spectral, type-GO. as the Sun. Editor’s N ote: WOW! All theories become the properly of IFSB and cannot be returned. SPACE REVIEW HIGHLIGHTS ABOUT REPRESENTATIVES DICK CAM PBELL, Rep. Indiana-—Rep. Cam pbell has written us m any interesting letters and aided in m aking his hom e town of Franklin the only city in the world with the m ost IFSB m em bers At present it totals over twenty. He was assisted by M r. Louis Frahm , and M r. Jid M oore of that place. * * • I. RON Al.l ALBERT, rep. Ontario, Canada—Will be appointed Representative of CAN ADA AI LARGE. Doing a fine job. Would like m ore Canadians to join club. • • • VI( TOR RtXH, Rep. Illinois—One of our m ow valuable representatives. He has spent m u. repanng a m ap of the United State# showing the places where saucers nave bet. . . ■■ He is quite a poet, too; see his poem in this issue. M r. Root presented the IFSB ns saucer m ap. We are proud of it We are sorry to say that M r. Root m ay ha»< >» - < to California in the near future It will be very hard to replace such an ante ■ • ■■ • • * « lAk *' 'ADDUS, Rep. Kentucky Obtained two new m em bers for IFSB. One of thru ■ < a M rs. Glenn C. Fuller, saw a flying saucer. Her report will be in our next iwu *r Review”. M r. Broaddus i* spreading the word about IFSB. • • • DIA' '■ 'HAN AN , Rep. Iowa- Obtained a new m em ber, and has clippings she in­ tends din to IFSB. • * • GAU 4’RAGUE, Rep. Wisconsin—Gad is quite the cartoonist. She sent in a cartoon "rally m ade the International Staff roll off their chairs. She showed the parlor of a hon< with the front door open, a strange looking creature had walked in the door leaving m uddy tracks on the floor. Outside can be seen a saucer parked on the lawn. A housewife approaches the creature and this is what she says: "I aon't care where you ’re from . Look at m y clean rug ” She also sent us a fine poem that appears in this issue. Gail obtained a new m ember for us also. She sure is showing fine interest • • • ALLAN LEVIN SKY, Rep M aine-—Claims that very few people are seeing saucers in M aine Is doing his best to get people interested in IFSB. * • * ROBERT R. RITTER, Rep. Tennessee -Chalks up another m em ber for IFSB. * * • LUIS LUHRIN G, Rep. Puerto Rico- M r. Luhnng has sent us num erous clippings from Puerto Rico about saucers. He plans to get as m any people as possible to join IFSB. He says that the interest in saucers is as great in Puerto Rico as anyplace else. • * • S. L DAW, Rep. Washington, D.C.—We are happy to have for our representative in Washington, D.C., the first m em ber of the clergy, Reverend Daw. M r. Daw, as he prefers to lx- . ailed by club m em bers, is doing great work for IFSB. We are anxiously awaiting to sec- his actual photos of saucers that he took him self * • • RON ALD KIN N EAR, Rep. N ew York- Took upon him self to advertise in his own state and had 50 post cards printed and plans ' m ail them out, in his state. II < ire >iol getting any report \ from tom, of our Heprtn ntattves. It is absolutely >teie> m that ue near from you, so pleae Jo your best Io get those monthly reports roll­ ing tn on lime. \ 8 SPACE RIVIEW D IRE CTO RY O F M PRE SE N TA TIVE S The following are additional representatives since our last publication. BRITISH REPRESEN TATIVE—Edgar L. Plunkett, 71 Chedworth Rd., Horfield, Bn«ol 7, England; Assistant Representative for Britain -Denis Plunkett PUERTO RICAN REPRESEN TATIVE—Luis Luhrmg, Box 23, Punta Santiago COLORADO—Verna M . Ham pton, 4245 Alcott St., Denver M AIN E —Allan Levinsky, 59 Atlantic St., Portland M ISSOURI- Ralph Hetzel, 6 Scarsdale, St. Louts 17 N EW JERSEY—August C. Roberts, 443 Ogden Ave., Jersey City N ORTH CAROLIN A—David T. Benton, Box 130, E.C.C., Greenville OHIO—Robert ( Schnelle, Sr., 714 M cM axn Ave., Cincinnati OREGON —G. I M cColly, 524 Jersey St., 5 verton DISTRICT OF COLUM BIA—Rev S L. Daw, 5119—7th St . N .W., Washington WEST VIRGIN IA—Gray Barker Box 981, ( larksburg Above names u til not be pubh > d again. Additional names in future issues. Anyone that wishes to correspond with other members will please send u< permission to print your name and address so that others will know that you desire correspondence. W 'e do not publish lists of our members ’tames and addresses without permission from them. . LETS LOOK AT THE MAGAZINES READERS DIGEST FOR JULY l«' . -Two articles "Have We Visitors from Space." and "Flying Saucers—N ew in N *ow Only.” RUE M AGAZIN E, SEPT 1952 The Flying Saucers and the M ysterious Little M en.” OCT 1952—"We Flew Above Flying Saucers." DEC 1952—"What Radar Tells About Flying Saucers ■ • M AGAZIN E, OC1. 20, 1952—"M oonbound, ’ Page 18. ( ER S, OCT. 18, 1952 M an on the M oori." f the finest to date in the pulp line. Cost 75c. We an all saucer-m inded folk ’ . et this m agazine. It is only once in a great while th- publisher puts out c ■ m e publication. Contains news of Space Travel; Flv ng Saucers; and Rocket >pm ent. These magazines are in the I! . LIBRARY as part of our collection. W e will send written information to anyone scat -a', have questions on above magazines. Com ing m April SPACE REVIEW SAUCERIT1S by John Armitage of England. An article that will m ake you really THIN K! A COM PLETE LISTIN G OF ALL OF Ol R OFFICERS AN D COUN CIL M EM BERS" SPACE REVIEW 9 TO A L L M E M BE RS O F THE I.F.S.B.— G RE E TIN G S FRO M E N G L A N D Copt. E dga r L . N unkott, British Representa tive Are we on the verge of a breath-taking discovery’ Yes, I believe we really are! To quote Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, "Too m any good m en have seen Flying Saucers for us to dism iss them lightly as hallucinations.” The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have produced a num ber of astonishing dis­ coveries notably the dreaded atom bom b, and also has had to discard in m any cases pre- vii >usly held convictions such as that "m atter is indestructible". Even the average laym an today, due to increased educational facilities, and access to literature of all kinds, has a very good idea that fe in all its form s consists of "energy”, and that this energy som ehow links back to son*, form of pulsating orbital structure like unto the universe, but on an infinitesim ally sm all* scale. Therefore, it is—to m e at least— quite believable that it ts possible that som ewhere -something—som eone—has solved the Jdie of this energy, etheric, electrom agnetic, ail it what you will. Having progressed 'O far, it follows that given elem ents capable of withstanding im m ense stresses and strains, .< propulsion of what has becom e known as the "Flying Saucer" becom es a possibility. I' s known that between the Sun. M oon, and our Earth, and presumably between other inter planetary and possibly interstellar bodies there exists m agnetic lines of force, thus if som e form of aircraft or saucer has control of the m eans of attraction and repulsion, these lines of force which by the way never touch one another, would form the perfect highway along which to travel at the speed of ght, and probably very m uch faster. It would also account for the capability of these so-ca. led "saucers" to accom plish right-angled •urns, inasm uch that these known m agnetic waves em anate in all directions. Therefore, ■■ point of view of the average thinking m an in the street, I say, "I believe the dying saucer docs exist, and that the com ing years will vindicate such m en as Captain M antell, Kenneth Arnold, and countless other pioneers in this field." In conclusion, m ay I say to all IFSB m em bers at hom e and abroad, carry on the good work, and above ail, do not be disappointed, discouraged or teiudec by the jeers and sneers of the ignorant so-called m ajority.” . The best of everything for the N ew Year ahead ' Yours fraternally, E. L Plu nkett M YSTE RIO U S CRA P by G a il Spra gue Out of the dark, m ysterious, depths of space, Cam e strange looking craft at a trem en dous pace Their course was true, the third plane- from the sun. Their orders Don't return until your task is done Down they descended; som e got out. "Be back in 24 hours," the com mander told the scout. Time went fast, all returned. Off went the craft, bearing all they’d learned. The decision was reached, never again. On this sm all planet they’d ever land Wars, corruption, prejudice and greed, M ade this the worst of all planets, all agreed O U T THE RE by Vic tor Root Out tn space lies m y destiny. Out there, beyond the clouds; Where winds have not yet blown, Where m an has not yet gone. That's where I long to roam Out in space lies m y destiny. Out there, am ong the stars. Where night is forever ruling, Where solitude is soothing; That's where I long to roam . Giv . silver ship. To leak Ik happy trip; Out then am ong the stars. 10 SP ACE RE V IE W SA U CE R SIG HTIN G S BY IFSB M E M BE RS E xc lusive! From Fra nklin, Inc hon* a nd Surrounding Tow ns SIGHTIN G N O. 4—On the m orning of July 28, 1952 in the skies to the southeast and at tim es directly over Franklin, Indiana appeared three strange objects. Their flight was watched by a large num ber of m en of sound m ind and character. The following is com piled from a Police report turned n by Capt. Lee Sloan. Patrolm an Jack W. M oore and Patrolm an Kenneth Rund of the Franklin Indiana Police Departm ent on M onday m orn ing, July 28, 1952 at 6:00 a.m. These obreete were witnessed by policemen, civilian au­ thorities, and m em bers of the United States Arn . After notifying all proper authorities of the objects no definite steps were taken by the •'m y or otherwise. The report is as follows There were three objects, one larger a- i brighter than the two sm aller objects. The larger of the three seem ed to cast off a w yellowish light. Its pattern of flight seem ed to be that of a circle. It seem ed to al way * keep u a track of the two sm aller objects. The two sm aller objects cast off a distinct:' light ot heir own, one being an orange hue and the other a reddish color. The two sr > er ones seem ed to be in a dog fight all their own since they executed barrel rolls loops and spins They m ade turns of 90 degrees and 1' degrees without losing any f of eed, as well as dancing up and down as if som eone was playing with a giant vo-yo The objects m ade single sorties to the south com pletely out d sight, to return riost m mediately into view again, joining the other in a neatly • show of turns, loops «od spins. We estimated their height at.approxi­ m ately 1 ‘ 1 ‘ hile their speed varud from an estim ated 1 500 m iles per hour to an estimated les per hour. I • en wish a pair ot binoculars it was alm ost an im pos­ sibility < any exact shajK other than that they appeared to be round and flat as a san «ey were observed for a period of four hours and fifteen m inutes. Dawn cam e at । s a.m and all stars had gone around 5:00 a m . At 5:05 a.m . it was bright day. light—and the three objects were still visible. Their color did not change in daylight At 5:11 a.m . the larger of the three objects was joined by the two sm aller ones; the sm aller objects one at a time disappeared i «"e the larger, first rhe orange, then the red. After <• to envelope the two sm aller >t jec > it m oved up and to the west out of sight The the three objects and th< f. sappearance of the larger took exactly 40 seconds. ' rets were verified by: Edin'urg Police Dept. ' .im p Atterbury, Ind.; Columbus , rept.: Seym our State Police Dent. Greensburg Poli ' Dept N orth Vernon Police Connersville P- Dept ter 'tile State Polue Post Fort Wayne. Ind.; and M adison, Ind M r M oore and M Rund ire IFSB m em bers now SIGH GN t O 5—Louie M asonick. |r., - •und object N ortheast of 20, - I < a dull gray color, triseh . was a Io* ’ii ■ I’ was about 5,000 I er hit’ tion of fl ,. was from East to W o n o tentative for M innesota . Prairie. M innesota about 2:30 p.m ., April it 250 M PH and when it ascended their .i was visable for about 45 seconds. Direc- ■e» t path. SIGHTIN G N O. 6—Alan K. Star 1 -m i. on: California Sighted a disc shaped objc .e East of Los Angeles about 9:08 p.m . on Sep- tem ber 22. 1952. It was a yellowish wm te in color and rem ained in a stationary position for about i seconds It was al ui' agrees abos, the horizon. It was about 50 feet in diam eter and traveling due north If err tending in yin '< n,. < ' ■Thani' yon 1 - S ' Sigblmy flea-e .me the date that yon SPACE REVIEW 11 E XCE RPTS FRO M A SU M M A RY O F A FIVE -YE A R FL YIN G SA U CE R IN VE STIG A TIO N By G eorg* D . Fa w c ett, Interna tiona l Counc il, IFSB 1 have just decided to stop investigation that I began a little over five years ago on n* of the m ost fascinating m ysteries of m odern tunes, that being the well known "Flying ^., er phenom ena. Since the sum mer of 1947 when the first saucer scare broke out in < United States, 1 have spent m uch of m y tin m oney and energy seeking a solution > h riddle. While carrying on m y private investigations I was able to interview several ■ joiners, scientists, pilots and guided m issil# xperts, who had spotted these saucers it ■ < had been investigating or studying th - strange objects. In addition to these ; r\ cv ' have talked to m any eye witnesses who had sighted these objects throughout he Uniti States and have m ailed questionnaire out to m any others. I f * ft bulletins and scrapbooks on the saucers for the past five years, and while v-m g . ikr 1 wrote a six-page pam phlet entitled "The Flying Saucer Phenom ena” • ai hers, and classmates I have - tured to several groups in Lynchburg. Ii> j. ;■ ■ ten interested in this phenom ena rom the very first, m y sighting of an - ike globe which hovered for four m inutes over the Lynchburg College ad- m m > .om - King about these saucers because in m y opit at this very m oment the United Is <-s G ernm ent is carrying on an educational pro, regarding interplanetar, ravel o’ ur untry. Perhaps space ships from other planets are already here! At anv rate whether <-y are trying to prevent religious con­ troversy or panic or for any other e •vises which hey m ight have, our government is still releasing, denying, suppressing ini esu * *uld be interested in receiv- । i em blem to wear on your >at lapel wr >ur club let: •> U SB" engraved on a i background we would be interested, in • »wing We cannot order these em blem s . ss we get enough people showing interest he pr would be approximately Si 00 Please let us know as soon as possih Th ■ you 12 SP ACE H V IE W W E WANT YOU TO MEET EDGAR L. PLUN KETT, BRITISH BEP1UBSEN TATIVE—Bom at Bristol, Glos.. England, on Decem ber 26, 1903. Covered i»v« parts of the world as a radio operator at sea from 1922 to 1936, including the I ^ k . notably N ew York, Boston, Baltim ore, N orfolk, N ewport N ews, Tam pa, M obil an.’ m any other ports. Has m any interesting m em ories of the prohibition days, the gangster era. Jack Dem psey. Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and other notable inghhgh >. Ha* wc« bed for m any years for Anglo-Am erican friendship and still corresponds with friend* here in U.S. A. Was called to service in 1939. Was rescued from Dunkirk Beaches by the Frewth Destroyer L'Incom prise on June I, 1940 Went to M iddle East in 1941, and served thresh three Western Desert Cam paigns with the British 8th Arm y. After fall ot Tun* •» onunssM oned in Palestine and was then posted in Egypt. Returned to England at he -cd of the war after four and a hall years service overseas as a Captain. N ow em pire ■■ has original firm as a clerk He has a wife and three children, A gvi are Denis 21, now with the RAF, Diana 18, and M ichael 14. Hobbies are writing *d reading and other journalistic yearnings including poetry, plus an unabated desire • ravel. Since the form ation of Civil Defense a year or so ago, he has becom e a <^ualih retractor and lectures three evenings weekly to industrial personnel. M r. Plunkett has shown great inter « m IFSB activities and will without a doubt prove to be our m ost valuable foreign re; tentative Assouan E dit or (N eat Issu April 1, 1953) .==========__-.--. . - ■ ■ s= = ^s:;.;..:: t t - ■ r^p *.-.onBa===a==as»s^ 3SBa=a==«BK Z T W x3SS8 3=====3S55 PO ST O FFICE BO X 2 41 U .S.A . BRID G E PO RT 2 , CO N N . M r. ^ coert D. W olf 19 N . F orsyth St. F ranklin, Indiana 101553 k U NITED STATES DEPARTM ENT O F JU STICE F E DE RAL BU RE AU O F IN V E ST IGAT IO N In Reply, Please Refer to File N o. American Embassy 1, Grosvenor Square London, W . 1 Date: To: February 17, 1953 Director, FBI Legal Attache London, England "FLYING SAU CERS" M ajor E. P. W alkers Provo M arshall at the U .S. Air Force Base at M ildenhall, England, telephonically contacted writer on February Ih, 1953, regarding the new or revived interest in "flying saucers." he stated he did not have any new information to report but did know of an incident that took place several years ago and which the Bureau may desire to check. This incident, according to M ajor W alkers, concerns an article or story on "flying saucers" which appeared in a small newspaper with limited circulation in the Township of Jeffersonville, Delaware Township, Sullivan County, New York. H e was unable to recall the name of the newspaper but was certain it is the only one published in that area. The story appeared in one of the early 19h7 issues or in one of the issues during the last three months of 19 h6. It was written by a member of the U . S.Armed Forces and of significance is the fact that subsequent issues failed to follow it up by carrying additional stories on "flying saucers." Also significant is the fact that it appeared in a small and practically unknown newspaper. M ajor W alkers states he is merely reporting this for what it may be worth and is being forwarded to the Bureau for any action con­ sidered appropriate. ’•■r 3 4 0^^ liaison section FBI U.S. DE^.n; ."’‘“iCE 62-83894 - RE CO RDE D -^ te_. Tot EXJ3Q Promt Subjects March 6, 1953 Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon W ashington 35, D. C. John Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investi gation FLYIN G SAUCERS The following information has been received by this Bureau from its representative in London, England, con corning the captioned matter: Major E. P. W alkers, Provost Marshal, U. S. Air Force Base, Mildenhall, England, telephonically contacted nue writer on February 14, 1953, regarding the new or revived interest in "flying saucers*" He stated he did not have any new information to report but he knew of an incident that took place several years ago which this Bureau might desire to check. This incident, according to Major W alkers, concerns an article or story on "flying saucers" which appeared in a small newspaper with limited circulation located at Jeffersonville, Delaware Tolson ______ Ladd_________ N ichols_______ Belm onte ----- Clem -------------- Gilvin ________ Harbo—_---------- Rosen „ Tracy_________ Laughlin.------- M ohr Winterroud Tele. Rm. __ Hollom an------— Gandy------— Armed Forces and o, M A IL E D EHM:eme W lf iyy RO -1953 CO M M -FBI Township, Sullivan County, N ew York. He was unable to recall the name of the newspaper but was certain it is the only one published in that area. The story appeared in one of the early 1947 issues or tn one of the issues during the last three &W *M § «H ajitsnr jo idjo $ < IS J HOO” 1 vw ^an^ $e$ - ? fc! ^? L**o5___' carrying additional stories on "/lying saucers," Also signi/icant is the /act that it appeared in a snail and practically unknown newspaper. Major W alkers states he this /or what it nay be worth. is nerely reporting The above data is being /urnished to you /or your in/ornation and any action you desire to take tn connection therewith, tnasnuch as this Bureau is not conducting any in­ vestigations relating to the captioned natter, - £ - T O » J^em^/nd^/m • UN ITED Sj|TES GOVERN M EN T A H, Belmont date: March 10 1953 Tolsoa ______ L a dd_ F RO M : SU BJE CT : L H. Martin N ic hola ----------- Bel m oot______ CltM -------------- G la via _______ Ha rbo________ Rosea ________ FLYING SAUCERS JOHN BAILEY, INFORMANT 9:05 P.M , John 3/4/ ailey called to advise that city.flying saucer nea details and nonresponsive as from and as to his residence from Bowie, Maryland, at that he had just seen a He was vague as to to where he was calling W hen asked where he L a a ghlia _____ M ohr_________ W intefTow d — Tele. Ra _____ Hoiiom a a _____ planned to stay tonight, at least, in order that Air Force might interview him if Bailey said the writer wanted to disconnected Since no specific and since the call may have been deemed advi sable, know too much and information was furnished a prank, the Air Force was not advised. Since no identifying information was obtained, no attempt was made tocheck Bureau records Recomm endation File LHM:dmd Date: torch 12, 1953 ^f T o: Director of Special Investigations T he Inspector General Department of the Air F orce T he P entagon W ashington 25* O U C. F rom : John E dgar H oover, Director F ederal Bureau of Investigation Subject: F LU N G SAU CE RS At 9:05 p.m . on torch 9* 1953* an individual giving his nam e as John Bailey telephmically contacted this Bureau and advised he had just seen a flying saucer near Bowie, M aryland, to. Bailey was vague as to any details in this m atter and would not furnish ary inform ation concerning his residence or the place from which he was m aking his telephone call. N o additional pertinent inform ation in this m atter was furnished by H r. Bailey. T he above is being furnished to you for your inform ation and assistance in the captioned m atter. N o Investigation is being conducted by this Bureau concerning this m atter. Tolson ______ L a dd_________ N ic hols _____ Belm ont______ «««________ G ia vin — _^_ Ha rbo ________ Rosea ________ Tra c y________ L a ughlin __ M ohr_ W intew ow dl _— Tele. Rm --------- Hollom a n— G a ndy____ E W kelk TRANSLATIO N FRO M SPANISH Valparaiso, M arch h, 1953 Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation W ashington U nited States, North America Subject: Individual who may possibly be connected with J flying saucers. Dear Sirs In writing to you who directs the influential O ffice of Investigation which has international connections, I would like to state the following: I0-*) I had the opportunity to read in a "Chilean" police magazine, in the section entitled, "Perfect Escapes," the escape of Dr. LINKE (h2 years old, widower, who sometime in 1950, in London, was arrested on the Sth floor of the Building of Departments (?). The reason for his detention was his possible collaboration with VLADIM IR VLASAV in "divulging to foreign governments English aviation secrets".) In his attempt to get away, which occurred between 4 and 5 in the morning, a strange thing happened, "when the police came near the Sth floor, the whole building became dark, the elevators stopped and the telephones and loudspeakers became silent. W hen the police arrived on the 8th floor with their flash lights, they immediately went off. (Nevertheless, he was arrested at 6 A.M .). b) Dr. LINKE escaped from the Kent Prison (a few days after he was imprisoned) and according to statements of the author of the article, which should be accurate, he did it in the following manner: Between 12 midnight and 2 A.M ., in rainy weather, Dr. JU LIU S LINKE disappeared under the following circumstances: the electricity, elevators, telephones, and flash lights of the guards would not function. 6>'l0Z' ' 3nwf "* According to the article, among other statements of the guards, was the fact that between midnight and 2 o’clock rain fell in torrents and for a few moments there was complete darkness because the lights went off. A guard tried to ring the alarm which would set off the siren, and it did not work; he yelled to another guard but did not get an answer, and his voice sounded very "distant”; although he tried to warn his chiefs personally, he could not run or even walk fast (he had to walk slowly). 2°).—A little before the fall of Berlin, ’’the motors of autos and trucks stopped unexpectedly," without any apparent explanation; after one hour they succeeded in starting them again. H iring this occasion it was commented that "something rare occurred in the atmosphere." 3° - About three months ago I read in a local newspaper about the "flying saucers," with the reservation that perhaps they would be speculating about the flying saucers; however, it is undeniable that they were telling the truth. It stated that, according to the article from a news agency, an officer and his associate who were flying a plane saw a "flying saucer." They followed it, but it, as in previous cases, whirled about and could not be reached. H owever, the flying saucer flew very high and then it began a rapid descent; it stepped a few seconds on the officer’s airplane, paralizing the motors of the airplane, (according to statements of the aviators). l^O RT BU CH ANAN, PU ERTO RICO : O n 4/27/55 a report was received from M ajor BRADFO RD P. SH U M AN, W ing Intelligence O fficer, Ramey Air Force Base, Puerto Rico. The substance of this report is as follows: Five persons observed an unidentified H ying object at 11:30 AM on 4/8/53 at Port Buchanan, Puerto Rico. Statements were taken from all of the witnesses, among whom were three Captains and a Sergeant of the U . S. Army, as well as a civilian. They described the object as a bright star or a bright ball of fire at a great height, and it was moving rapidly at the time it was observed. All of the witnesses observed one RB 36 aircraft which had been flying in the area at the time of the sighting of this unidenti­ fied object. The W ing Intelligence O fficer reported that there were two RB 36 aircraft in the area at this time. These aircraft were reported to be flying at 12,000 and 21,000 feet respectively. None of the persons from whom statements were taken were able to accurately describe the object, other than by the statements set forth above. This matter is being reported to the Bureau for information' purposes. CLO SED. FDO 'B:M D RE CORDE D-12 Mau 14, 1953 Mrs. Robert H.Jfavtsson 26 Olcott Street W atertown, Massachusetts Dear Mrs. Davisson/ I have received your letter of If at/ 9, 1953, and I want to thank you for making the information contained in your letter available to me. Inasmuch as the information contained in your letter comes within the jurisdiction of the Department of the Air Force, I have furnished a copy of your letter to that Department for appropriate attention. Sincerely yours, John Edgar Hoover Di rector Tolson______ L a dd-------------- N ic hols--------- Belm ont------- |U en----------- G la vtn---------- llla rbo------------ [Rosen-------- [Tra c y----------- Ipea ny-------- W ohr------------- ■ interrow d ■etc . Room »llora n Gandy Boston RE CORD^ M AY 13.(1953 Davissonare negative re Mrs. Robert H EHMtmjh N O^E: Bureau fi CO M M 5 FBI I Y 1 5 1553 ‘^' M A IL E D 2 8 CEOR INFORMATION) 4Oll$or ^u id? n s y- E SkI^I iW n^s-4v^ SOiiSG :' i? 1N 0H13 8 0.3 3 8 f RECORDED; 9? Date: M ay 14, 1953 Director of Special Investigations T he Inspector General Departm ent of the Air F orce T he P entagon W ashington 25, D. 0. F rom : John E dgar H oover, Director F ederal Bureau of Investigation Subject: F LYIN G SAGGE RS T here is attached for your inform ation and assistance in this m atter a copy of a self-explanatory letter dated day 9, 1953, received by this Bureau from M rs. Robert H . Davisson, 26 O lcott Street, W atertown, M assachusetts. M rs. Davisson's letter has been acknowledged by this Bureau and she has been informed that a copy of her letter has been referred to the Departm ent of the Air F orce for appropriate attention. Attachment cc - 1 - Boston (Under Separate Cover) (Attachm ent) (FOR IN FO) N OTE: Bureau files are negative re M rs.Robert lav is son. Tolson---------- L a dd------------- N ic hols - - Belm ont-------- Clegs------------ G la vin----------- 11a rbo----------- Rosen----------- Tra c y------------ G ee tty---------- M ohr ► — -_., Vinterrow d - Tele. Room - Hollom a n------ Si 7.0 0 ------------ M iss G a ndy - EHM im jh W 15’^3 ' CO M M -F* ^D Pp &HJSSI ^^ "S«£d0 1«S . I 9 J cm r^ i>< Hd e? rl ' I Aty soiisnr Huv'd^o s-n ^^1W ’^ m-M M 05 July 9, 1953 / ®-^^t^^ ^ \^& ®Mr. w. S.^oodfill President Grand Hotel Mackinac Island, Michigan Dear Mr, ^oodfill: lour letter of June 30, 1953, has been received in Mr. Hoover's absence from the city, and I am taking the liberty of acknowledging its receipt. lour communication will be brought to his attention promptly following his return to W ashington. of'\ij*eoming.cc-Cincinnati, with co Tolson---------- L a dd------------- N ic hols--------- Belm ont-------- dm — , G la vin----------- Ha rbo------------ Rosen----------- Tra c y------------ G ea ny----------- M ohr-------------- W interrow d — Tele. Room — Hollom a n------ Sizoo ------------ M iss G a ndy - ATTEN TION SAC: You are instructed to thoroughly' check your files in an effort to determine whether r- or not the Mr. Stevenson referred to by corresoo^er^ has been interviewed by an Agent of your office. ^\You should also furnish the Bureau any information wileh£T> might assist in clarifying the story set forth &y'.. u j W oodfill. Sulet results no later than July 1^,^11953^ under caption "Mr. J. S. W oodfill, President, Grand sz Hotel, Mackinac Island, Michigan, Research (Crime = Ji . > / > N OTE: Although inquiries regarding such phenomena r \ : are being handled by the Air Force at this pr^se^t <£M v/'\t.i> time, it is believed desirable to check the source n’^ I of this rumor and following receipt of reply Upro® ^ j Cincinnati, refer correspondent's inquiry to^bhe'AifPForce. In 1939 and again in 1940 '/oodfill invited th# Director to attend the Michigan Hotel Convention, and-^oth invitations were declined. An informant reported that in^l^^ § gambling on Mackinac Hotel. JUL 101953 M A IL E D 2 7 | ^ G ra^oteU WORLD’S LARGEST SUM M ER HOTEL W . S.W oodf ill 'President M r. Tolson. M r. L It . N M ACKIN AC ISLAN D June JO , 1955 1 in bo Filmin' Tracy :— "M r. Gcarty_____ M r. M -1it ______ ■ M ICHIGAN i eiw. rv • w------- M r. Holloman__ M r. Sizoo______ M iss Gandy____ Federal Bureau of Investigation W ashington, D. C* Gentlemen* A relative of mine living in Circleville, O hio has advised me of the following account« Two years ago a respected farmer living near Circleville saw a lighted object dancing around, flying around in the air near him late at night in a pasture or field, — a\.O yi$ £ saucer* In due time this came to have general knowledge in the community, and about one year -ago the story appeared in the Circleville newspaper* Since then he is presumed to have been consulted with representatives of the F.B.I., so it is said there, and only three weeks ago or so it is said the F.B.I representatives came to consult with him again* This time they brough+pictures to show the farmer of various types of these flying saucers or space ships that have been apprehended by the government from time to time, and the farmer was able to identify one of them as the type of thing he had seen two years ago* The fanner was told, as the story goes, by your representatives, that the par­ ticular flying saucer he identified is the type that is known to have been flown down from the planet M ars, and that similar ships have been captured, and that your agency or the government hold captive one man at least in California who was taken from one of these things from M ars* This M artian it is understood is now being taught how to speak English — in California — and taught American customs* much more It is said that it is apparent that this M artian comes from a civilization advanced than our own civiliation***. and thatthis account has general ^? knowledge as reported here in that community ‘& I understand that the farmer is a M rx Stevenson^ that he is held in very high repute in th^ community, prosperous, conservative and of presumed sound mind RE CO RDE D„68 M B® ® JUL 13 1953 v N o. 2 I can only believe that the account ia a lot of nonsense, insofar as the F.B.I. telling the farmer that the government has captured several "flying saucers", and that they are from M ars, and that a M artian is being held captive in California. It would be apparent to me that if the government did have such knowledge, they would not confide such information to the farmer, — and moreover that it is too utterly fantastic to credit with recognition as true. The farmer no doubt saw a "flying saucer", a light reflection or other light phenomenon such as the govern­ ment has said all such things really are, and not a space ship from M ars or anyother place in outer space. I am writing to hopefully secure your advice, insofar as you can properly advise me publicly as a citizen, of what the truth is in this story. I should like to set ray relative there straight^ And I am curious personally to know what the real story is about this farmer - M r. Stevenson of the Circleville, O hio area. Respectfully yours, FBI-" ATLANTA DIRECTOR, FBI FLYING SAUCERS 7-8-53 JUL 3 1953 K D E RA l BU RE A U O f ......... 0 U . S D E PA RTM E N T of just ice CO M M U N ICA TIO N S SE CTIO N URG E N T MR. TOM MCRAE ATLANTA 11-0-2 AM JB TER M r M r M r. Tra M r. Gea M r. M ol M r. Win Tele. Ko M r. Heil M r. Sizoo |SB G andy COMPLAINANT. THREE FORTYFIVE AM THIS DATE MCRAE TELEPHONICALLY FURNISH FOLLOWING -FANTASTIC TALE - ASSURING THAT NEITHER HE NOR ANY MEMBER OF -^CONSTITUTION- STAFF HAD BEEN DRINKING BUT HAD WITNESSED THIS STORY. MCRAE STATED EDWARD E. WATERS, ONE EIGHT FIVE FIVE PEACHTREE RD, NE, TELE ELGIN NINE FIVE SIX TWO, CALLED ON HIM AT NEWSPAPER OFFICE STATING HE ANDTWO OTHER COMPANIONS WHILE TRAVELING IN CAR ON BANK- HEAD HIGHWAY ABOUT MABLETON, GA. ENCOUNTERED THREE SMALL ANIMALS WHICH THEY BELIEVED HAD LANDED FROM SOME PLACE IN FLYING SAUCER. WATERS INFORMED MCRAE THAT AS THEY APPROACHED THE THREE OBJECTS SSTARTING MAKING THEIR WAY BACK TO WHAT HE BELIEVED A FLYING SAUCER, THAT TWO OF THE ANIMALS ESCAPED IN SAUCER BUT THIRD WAS KILLED WHEN HIT BY THEIR AUTOMOBILE. WATERS DISPLAYED OBJECT OR ANIMAL TO MCRAE AT NEWSPAPER OFFICE. MCRAE STATED ANIMAL DID NOT RESEMBLE ANYTHING HE HAD EVER SEEN BEFORE BUT LOOKED AS IF IT BELONGED TO MONKEY FAMILY. ANIMAL MEASURED AND FOUND TO BE APPROXIMATELY TWENTYONE INCHES LONG, HAD RATHER POINTED HEAD, LARGE EARS AND SKIN WAS PINKISH. DUE TO EARLY MORNING HOUR ^O^^^BLE TO LOCATE SCIENTIST TO EXAMINE ANIMAL BUT DID HAVE ONE OF LECHING VETERINARIANS THIS CITY EXAMINE IT. RE C’D SS.H ^ Z I 8 W c.®9£U 5 7‘ 33U^^^»8 5 m a^-Ju^a,!^^ ES. 92 £ < 0-13 2 MCRAE STATES VETERINARIAN WOULD NOT COMMIT HIMSELF BUT VET POINTED OUT HAD NEVER SEEN ANIMAL IN MONKEY FAMILY WITHOUT HAIR AS THIS ONE NOR HAD EVER NOTED A DEAD ANIMAL THAT DID NOT TURN PALE AT DEATH. VETERINARIAN STATED ANIMAL HAD HAD A TAIL BUT SAME WAS MISSING AND WHEN ’ QUESTIONING WATERS ABOUT SAME WATERS SEEMED SOMEWHAT SURPRISED BUT STAT IT WAS POSSIBLY CUT OFF IN ACCIDENT. MCRAE ADVISED WHERE WAS BLOOD AROUND MOUTH OF ANIMAL CAUSED BY ACCIDENT WHICH RESEMBLED HUMAN BLOOD MCRAE FIRST THOUVHT WATERS POSSIBLY TRYING TO PULL PUBLICITY GAG DUE TO RECENT NEWSPAPER STORIES BUT BELIEVED HAD THIS BEEN HIS MOTIVE WATE WOULD HAVE TIMED HIS VISIT BETTER AS THEY WERE ABLE TO PRINT ANYTHING AFTER MIDNIGHT. MCRAE STATED NEWSPAPER WOULD POSSIBLY RUN STORY ON ABOVE FACTS TODAY. ATLANTA INDICES NEGATIVE ON WATERS. ABOVE FURNISHED IN VIEW OF POSSIBLE PUBLICITY THIS DATE. NO INVESTIGATION BEING CONDUCTED THIS OFFICE UCAB. MATTER REFERRED TO OSI OFFICE NINE AM EST TODAY. CARSON END AND ACK LINE X SIX SHUD LAST THREE WORDS BE WHXX THERE WAS BLOOD YES THANKS ALSO LINE 10 SHUD IT BE THEY WERE UNABLE YES OK TU 12-11 PM OK FBI WA RD V VC: M I;. BELM ON T DOM . IN TEL, DIVISION JUL8 f 1953 teletype FEI AKANTA XRECTCR, FBI FLYING SAUCERS, MR. 7-8-53 11-0-2 AM URGENT FE D E RA L BU RE A U O F IN VE S1IG A T1O ’ u. s. D E PA RTM E N T O F JU STICE CO M M U N ICA TIO N S SE CTIO N CONSTITUTION- REPORTER,TOM MCRAE, - ATLANTA COMPLAINANT. THREE FORTYFIVE AM THIS DATE MCRAE TELEPHONICALLY FURNISH! FOLLOWING -FANTASTIC TALE - ASSURING THAT NEITHER HE NOR ANY MEMBER OF -^CONSTITUTION- STAFF HAD BEEN DRINKING BUT HAD WITNESSED THIS STORY. MCRAE STATED EDWARD E. WATERS, ONE EIGHT FIVE FIVE PEACHTREE RD, NE, TELE ELGIN NINE FIVE SIX TWO, CALLED ON HIM AT NEWSPAPER OFFICE STATING HE ANDTWO OTHER COMPANIONS WHILE TRAVELING IN CAR ON BANK- HEAD HIGHWAY ABOUT MABLETON, GA. ENCOUNTERED THREE SMALL ANIMALS WHICH THEY BELIEVED HAD LANDED FROMSOME PLACE IN LYING SAUCER. WATERS INFORMED MCRAE THAT AS THEY APPROACHED THE THREE OBJECTS SSTARTING MAKING THEIR WAY BACK TO WHAT HE BELIEVED A FLYING SAUCER, THAT TWO OF THE ANIMALS ESCAPED IN SAUCER BUT THIRD WAS KILLED WHEN HIT BY THEIR AUTOMOBILE. WATERS DISPLAYED OBJECT OR ANIMAL TO MCRAE AT NEWSPAPER OFFICE. MCRAE STATED ANIMAL DID NOT RESEMBLE ANYTHING HE HAD EVER SEEN BEFORE BUT LOOKED AS IF IT BELONGED TO MONKEY FAMILY. ANIMAL MEASURED AND FOUND TO BE APPROXIMATELY TWENTYONE INCHES LONG, HAD RATHER POINTED HEAD, LARGE EARS AND SKIN WAS PINKISH. DUE TO EARLY MORNING HOUR MCRAE UNABLE TO LOCATE SCIENTIST TO EXAMINE ANIMAL BUT DID HAVE ONE OF LEADING VETERINARIANS THIS CITY EXAMINE IT. MCRAE STATES VETERINARIAN WOULD NOT COMMIT HIMSELF BUT VET POINTED OUT HAD NEVER SEEN ANIMAL IN MONKEY FAMILY WITHOUT HAIR AS THIS ONE NOR HAD EVER NOTED A' DEAD ANIMAL THAT DID NOT TURN PALE AT DEATH. VETERINARIAN STATED ANIMAL HAD HAD A TAIL BUT SAME WAS MISSING AND WHEN QUESTIONING WATERS ABOUT SAME WATERS SEEMED SOMEWHAT SURPRISED BUT STAT. IT WAS POSSIBLY CUT OFF IN ACCIDENT. MCRAE ADVISED ©HERE WAS BLOOD AROUND MOUTH OF ANIMAL CAUSED BY ACCIDENT WHICH RESEMBLED HUMAN BLOOD MCRAE FIRST THOUVHT WATERS POSSIBLY TRYING TO PULL PUBLICITY GAG DUE TO RECENT NEWSPAPER STORIES BUT BELIEVED HAD THIS BEEN HIS MOTIVE WATER WOULD HAVE TIMED HIS VISIT BETTER AS THEY WEREx^BLE TO PRINT ANYTHING AFTER MIDNIGHT. MCRAE STATED NEWSPAPER WOULD POSSIBLY RUN STORY ON ABOVE FACTS TODAY. ATLANTA INDICES NEGATIVE ON WATERS. ABOVE FURNISHED IN VIEW OF POSSIBLE PUBLICITY THIS DATE. NO INVESTIGATION BEING CONDUCTED THIS OFFICE UCAB. MATTER REFERRED TO OSI OFFICE NINE | AM EST TODAY. CARSON END AND ACK LINE X SIX SHUD LAST THREE WORDS BE WHXX THERE WAS BLOOD YES THANKS ALSO LINE 10 SHUD IT BE THEY WERE UNABLE YES OK TU 12-11 PM OK FBI WA RD v T he Little M an W ho W asn’t E dward W atters and two friends said they saw a flying saucer on U . S. H igh­ way 78 riear Atlanta, Gal, and several sm all creatures running toward it. T hey ran over one but the others entered the sau­ cer and flew off in a blaze of U ght. M r. W at­ ters exhibits the ‘‘m an from M ars” but an anatom y pro­ fessor called it a skinned m onkey. /0M 5J(»II« (jJ- Washington Daily N ews 7/9/53 CSA U CE R) A TL A N TA — TW O BA RBE RS A N D A BU TCHE R PRO D U CE D A 2 1-1*0 L O N G " CRE A TU RE TO D A Y TO BA CK U P THE IR TA L E THA T THE Y HA D SE E N A FL YIN G SA U CE R A N D TM RE E L U SIVE L ITTL E M E N A FTE R CO N SU M IN G O N E BE E R A PIE CE . A N A N A TO M Y PRO FE SSO R SA ID . HO W E VE R, THA T THE CO RPSE THE E A RTH M E N SU SPE CTE D W A S FRO M O U TE R SPA CE A PPE A RE D TO BE A M O N K E Y. THE M E N W E RE CO N VIN CE D IT W A S FRO M O U T O F THIS W O RL D S THE Y SA ID THE Y RA N IN TO IT W ITH THE IR A U TO M O BIL E W HIL E D RIVIN G O N A HIG HW A Y N E A R HE RE L A ST N IG HT. I " RIG HT THE RE IN THE M ID D L E O F THE HIG HW A Y W A S THIS THIN G , G L O W IN G RE D A U O VE R." SA ID E D W A RD W A TTE RS, 2 8-YE A R-O L D BA RK E R.. IT L O O K E D L IK E A FL YIN G SA U CE S PICTU RE HE HA D SE E N IN A SCIE N CE M A G A Z IN E , HE SA ID " THRE E L ITTL E M E N W E RE RU N N IN G FO R IT," W A TTE RS CO N TIN U E D . " THE Y A L L JU M PE D . TW O O F THE M M A D E IT. I HIT THE O THE R O N E ." W A TTE RS SA ID THE M A CHIN E SO O N RO SE IN TO THE A IR A N D Z O O M E D A W A Y. HE SA ID IT W A S N O T M O RE THA N W A IST HIG H A N D A BO U T HA L F A g W ID E A S THE RO A D . W A TTE RS* CO M PA N IO N S, A RN O L D PA YN E , A BU TCHE R. A N D THO M A S W IL SO N , A BA RBE R. TO L D THE SA M E STO RY. W A TTE RS SA ID THE IN CID E N T O CCU RRE D A BO U T M ID N IG HT A FTE R THE Y HA D CO N SU M E D O N E BE E R A PIE CE . D R. W . A . M ICK L E , A N A TO M Y PRO FE SSO R A T E M RO Y U N IVE RSITY, E XA M IN E D THE A N IM A L , W HICH W A D BE CO M E A VICTIM O F A N A U TO M O BIL E A CCID E N T. M ICK L E SA ID IT L O O K E D L IK E A M E M BE R O F THE " RHE SU S M O N K E Y FA M IL Y," A L THO U G H IT M A D N O HA IR" IF IT’S A CRE A TU RE ’FRO M O U TE R SPA CE , THE Y HA VE N’T IN VE N TE D A N YTHIN G N E W S," HE SA ID . / «W A TTE RS D E CID E D TO FRE E Z E THE THIN G W ITH D RY ICE A N D PU T IT^< J A .O N D ISPL A Y.‘ 7/8— N 63 3 P qE CQ RDE D-lM -3^ IN DE XE D-124 DATE: July 10, 1953 E X-103 I \ Tolson______ L a dd------------- N ic hols--------- Belm ont-------- Cle„------------ G la vin----------- Ha rbo------------ Rosen----------- Tra c y_______ Gearey------- M ohr-------------- Vinterrow d — Tele. Room _ Hollom a n------ Si zoo------------ M iss G a ndy _ TO: Director of Special Investigations The Inspector general Department o' the Air orce The Pentagon ’ashington 25, D, C, FROM: John Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation SUBJECT: FLUNG SAfGXRS , The following information was furnished to the Atlanta "ield Office of this Bureau at 3:45 A,M,. on July 8, 1953, by Hr, Tom^'cRae, "Atlanta Constitution" reverter, Mr, McRae stated Mr, Edward E, W aters, 1355 Peach Tree Road, N ortheast, Atlanta, Georgia, telephone number Elgin 9562, contacted him. at the off ice of the "Atlanta Constitution" and advised as follows: According to W aters, he and two other companions, while travelling in an automobile on Bankhead Highway in the vicinity of Mableton, Georgia, encountered three small animals which they believed had landed from a flying saucer, W aters advised as he and his companion approached, the three animals started making their way back to what was believed to be a flying saucer, According to ters, two of the animals escaped in the flying saucer but the third was killed when hit by the automobile in which W aters and his companions were riding, According to McRae, aters displayed the animal which had been killed to him at the "'tlanta Constitution" newspaper office, McRae stated the animal did not resemble anything he had ever seen before but itrJopked as though it belonged to the monkey family, According' to McRae, the animal was approximate!y 21 inches long, ^c^ a rather pointed head, large ears and pinkish skih^^'MpR^e Stated because of the early morning hour he was unable to locate a scientist to examine the animal, but he did have one'1 fff the leading veterinarians of Atlanta, Georgia, examine it, y _ CO M M -FBI; ■ , A JUL 101953 Yr W W Z1^ M A IL E D 2 7 1 ] ^^X^ UH-XS ^HJ^g g< y jJitsnr jo idju s n I J W OOt low . 9AI3 93 8 E cpro.t ■ < ? . i VE O3 JIAM McRae advised the veterinarian would not com it himself but the veterinarian pointed out he had never seen an animal in the, monkey family without hair nor had he ever seen a dead animal that did not turn pale at death. According to McRae, the veterinarian stated the animal's tail was missing and that when he had questioned *aters aboit the hissing tail Vaters had seemed somewhat surprised and indicated it had possibly been cut off in the accident, McRae stated there w^-8 blood around the mouth of the animal, which resembled human blood, At the time McRae furnished the above informs- tion to the Atlanta Office of this Bureau, he stated neither he nor any member of the "Atlanta Constitution" newspaper staff had been drinking but had witnessed the above, I'cRae stated he first tho ght W aters had tried to pull a p bl icity gag in this matter; however, it was McRae's opinion if this had been W aters’ motive, W aters would have timed his visit to the newspaper office better as the newspaper was unable to print anything on the story after midnight, McRae informed the Atlanta Office of this Bureau the ’’Atlanta Constitution" newspaper would probably run a story concerning the information set forth above, It is noted your office was telephontcally con­ tacted on the morning of July 9, 1953, by a Liaison rep­ resentative of this Bureau concerning the above matter. The above is furnished for your information and no investi­ gation is being conducted in this matter by this Bureau, - 2 - July 24, 1953 Mr. V. 3. W oodfill Pre sident Grand Hotel Mackinac Island, Michigan Dear Mr. W oodfill: ^t.bC ■ Four letter of June 30, to my attention upon my return to want to thank you for making this to me. 1953, was brought the city, and I information available I wish to advise that the situation which you discuss in your letter does not pertain to any matter within the investigative jurisdiction of the FBI. Obviously, therefore, no representative of this Bureau conducted the interview with Mr. Stevenson which you describe relative to 'flying saucers." Sincerely yours, CH J. E dga r Hoover m JUL 2 8 1953 John Edgar Hoover Di rector cc Cineinnati Reurlet July 15, 1953 Tolson---------- L a dd------------- N ic hols--------- Belm ont-------- Cle«------------ G la vin----------- Ha rbo------------ Rosen----------- Tra c y------------ G c a rty---------- M ohr-------------- W interrow d — Tele. Room _ Hollom a n------ Sizoo ------------ M iss G a ndy — NOTE: Mr. W oodfill's letter of June 30,-1953, stated that a farmer named Stevenson of Circlevill e,"> Ohiv, (had reportedly seen a flying saucer and had been subsequently rynterv iewed on the matter by representative of the FBI^ fHr. W oodfill desired to know if this were true. - q ^ Bulet of July 9, 1953, to him was an "in-^sence" reply, contain ing,. a not'd for S/^C, Cincinnati to determine the basis of the rumor. C incinndti letter of July 15, ^53, indicates that Stevenson was 'interviewed on July 14, ^.9^; at that time Stevenson indicated that he had been interviewed on the subject by one Jack W , Grant of Columbus, Ohio, who made the statement that he (Grant) had once been "checked" by the FBI. Cincinnati files reflect no prior interview with the farmer, who is Brucf^Stepenson, Rural Route 2, Circleville, Ohio. ^^Z Ml ^ ' Il M*** I M OSJUl UN ITED STATES GOVERN M EN T STA N D A RD FO RM N O . 64 Office Mef^randum • : DIRECTO R, FBI DATE: July 15, 1953TO M R. W .^fTO O DFILL, President Grand H otel M ackinac Island, M ichigan RESEARCH - CRIM E RECO RDS SAC, CINCINNATI (105-0) L\ ReBulet dated 7-9-53. Sheriff CH ARLES RADCLIFF, Circleville, Pickaway County, O hio, advised he is cognizant of l^flying saucer'* report made by M r. BRU CE STEVENSO N, Rural Route 2, Circleville yO hld. According to Sheriff RADCLIFF, M r. STEVENSO N reported that a saucer-shaped object had landed on his farm some time ago, and this report eventually reached local newspapers. In June, 1953, an individual discussed the matter with M r. STEVENSO N. Sheriff RADCLIFF advised that this person did not, to his knowledge, represent himself to be an FBI Agent. The Sheriff further declared that he has known BRU CE STEVENSO N all his life and that he is a prosperous, well-respected local farmer, who is considered trustworthy. M r. BRU pifSTEVENSO N, Rural Route 2, was interviewed 7-1U -53 at which time he stated that shortly after he received some publicity regard­ ing his report of sighting a saucer-shaped object, he was visited by one JACK>rAER0-DYN AM ICS ALOIS PIVEC - IN FORM AN T Enclosed herewith are photostats of parts of two letters furnished by ALOIS PIVEC and his wife, OLGA PIVEC, both of 164 Hallstead Street, East Orange, N J.. Both photostats are in German and concern the developm ent of a new principle in aero-dynamics and alleged attem pts by the Com m unists in Austria to obtain this inform ation. There is also enclosed a blind m em o, setting forth the sum m ary of the inform ation in the letters and the circum stances under which they were obtained. This information is being furnished to the Bureau for whatever action is deem ed appropriate. The indices of the N ewark Office are negative regarding ALOIS PIVEC, OLGA PIVEC and AQOLPH DORN IG. E nds. (7) .0 TRANSLATIO N FRO M GERM AN Item #1 12-21-53 M r. ALO IS PIW ETZ 16h H alsted Str. New Jersey, U . S. A. Dear M r. PIW ETZ , Your brother will probably have communicated with you about me as we became acquainted with each other at a construction job. I told him a few things about inventions or utilization. Dear M r. PIW ETZ , be not angry with me because I am now turning to you. I hesitated such a long time as my wife does not wish to go abroad. Enclosed I am sending you 2 inventions, that is, ideas and I leave it to your own power of judgment whether one or both, or none of these inventions is suitable. If one seems to be profitable to you, you should apply for a patent in your own name as the best possible way and enter for me and for yourself U 5% each of the net profit and 10% for your brother. I am giving you entirely a free hand, as you will undoubtedly try to attain the greatest possible profit. And now, dear M r. PIW ETZ , I am taking the liberty of telling you something about an invention which the entire world wants to have. (I am only writing the most important facts.) Before the war I intended to make a toy, something which flies, and purely accidentally I discovered a hitherto unknown aerodynamic law. I experimented further. I improved and informed several comrades. They were enthused and emigrated to South America. There they tried it on their own responsibility. People were killed and they failed to perfect the incomplete invention. They approached me again. As they were only artisans, these flying machines were, of course, built primitively. The first experiments to fly with a motorcycle motor attained the result of 250-300 km. Not bad for the years 1938-391 W ith a powerful motor they then flew 2600-2800 km. (hour kilometers). rr/WMW 8-/: fKiSPkkV 8 MMMV^-. ^, „ CO PIES D ESTRO YED 270 N OV 19 1564 After the war they came to me again and told me about their misfortune, that about 60% of all flights had been fatal. To make it very clear, they wanted to find out how I construct my flying apparatuses, because with a device, which endangers lives,they could not, of course, appear before the public, and, therefore, all this is still, so to speak, a private secret. In America, this flying machine is called "flying saucer," and since among my former comrades a quarrel broke out and they distrust each other and none of them has the intelligence, which this invention demands, they have not progressed over there. I imagine that they have stubbornly adhered to some construction, that is, become involved in it that they cannot advance. It has taken me years to reach the point where I can already say with respect to the construction plan that now the machine is safe for flying. Thereby I am losing, however, some speed, but, in return for it, safety is secured and this is the main thing. This machine is so very simple in its construction that, if one gives me an engineer and experts, I can build this apparatus in 5 to 6 weeks at the most (but only experimentally for a crew of 1 to 3 men). Then this machine attains, with an automobile motor of 80 to 120 h.p. about 700 to 1,000 km. If a firm would exist, which does not shun the costs, I can, because of the simple construction of the machine, build the first machine immediately in such a manner that it exceeds the 2000 km. limit per hour. Because of the new aerodynamic law it is possible without any difficulty (everything without propellers) to reach such speeds. Now the idea has come to me to build some kind of popular flying machine which is cheaper than an automobile. O ne does not need any starting or landing strip and one would have a travelling speed of about $ 00 to 700 km. per hour. I believe that America would be the most favorable place in the world for it. You will now understand that I am very anxious to establish contact with a firm which is greatly interested in this invention. But as I have no knowledge of English, it is for me, from the very beginning, an affair which will come to nothing. If you, dear M r. PI.'.ETZ , can start the matter, you will not have done it in vain. I am not niggardly and besides I want to go to the U . S. A. to realize there a still larger project for which I need co-workers. The circular flying machines shall bring me the money for my further future plans, for I believe popular flying machines, according to my model and besides IC# safe from crash, will be a gigantic business. I do not know the magnates over there; perhaps H ENRY FO RD or an airplane factory, possibly a helicopter plant would be interested in it. But I shall announce the names of my comrades only after I have received a contract pertaining to license or gratuities and after my arrival in the U . S. H owever, it must be added that I shall not lay out the money for the passage if some firm accepts me for the construction of the flying machines. But in addition to all that I - need someone who lives over there and who knows the English language, and now I am asking you, my dear M r. PTAETZ ,whether you c an function as my manager as they say in the U . S. A. W ell, you know that the manager receives payment, and I believe that you will enjoy working with me later on inventions when I am over there. Incidentally I mention that I took a course as a chemist.(The "Do" - apparatuses, later called fog - or rocket-missiles, originated with me and also many other things.) I hope that you can decipher my hieroglyphic script. Such small writing is not in my line. So that you may see that I am not exaggerating, I declare upon oath that the invention, known by the name of "flying saucer," is my own, that I know the men who are building these machines in South America, and that I can construct the above-described machine myself and attain at least 2000 km. /s/ A. DO RNIG. I hope that you will be interested in it. I am awaiting your communication very hopefully. W ith friendly greetings, Respectfully, /s/ ADO LF DO RNIG Item #2 1-21-5U ADO LF DO RNIG W aidmannsdorferstr. 80 Klagenfurt - W est Dear M r. PIVEC, I have received your letter of 1-12, on 1-19. M any thanks for your efforts. W ith joy I have taken cognizance of the fact that you have already contacted American authorities concerning my invention. H owever, I have no great hopes, because I know that with the U . S. everything is defective, exactly as with the English. - Example: Already a long time ago I wrote 2 or 3 letters to the U . S. authorities at Salzburg and I was in Salzburg myself during the past year, but everything was in vain. - At the most, in response to my letters, some Russian agent comes; that is all. W hen I wrote in Switzerland at first to President TRU M AN and then to President EISENH O W ER through an official bureau, also everything was of no avail. In the end, always Russian agents come. In M ay 1953* a big dirty pig arrived who wanted to make me believe that he would take me in an automobile to the emigration office for Austrians in Switzerland. H e enraged me to such an extent that I hit him in the face with my fist. But he had also helpers and I am not sure how it ended. I awoke,lying on the ground, and all had disappeared. Several days ago a man approached me at my working place who only pointed a finger upon me, saying: "Youl" W hen I looked at him; he quickly ran away. I could not recognize him, but seemingly he knew me. - But the English are even more stupid. I wrote to the local city commandant's office about my invention (just like to you) but no reply came. W hen at one time I accidentally listened to "Radio Canada," I learned about my statements. Those people said that one had finally succeeded (possibly Scotland Yard) to obtain exact data on the German flying saucers and that one would, therefore, establish a research station in Canada with English experts, etc. I wondered whether the entire world had gone crazy. I offer my invention for sale, and those people make such a noise about it! They will never perfect the machine without my data. W ell, I let you know that I am somewhat in the bad books here; strictly speaking since 1937, because of our eagle, also called misfortune. O ur coat of arms, the bird of Austria, has in its claws hammer and sickle, and when I announced in 193(7)7 in public that the communist symbols also appear on our money, the gendarmery arrested me and told me that I was crazy* Since I repeatedly declared that a ’’red dog” sits in the government in complete secrecy, everything has failed. But that since then an information has always been based upon the word crazy, I do not believe, although I know that the communists have always guarded me very strictly. Furthermore, I accidentally (relatives) discovered the fundamentals of Russian atom physics (a law of nature, unknown to America) and, therefore, since 1933 all my attempts to get into the U . S. A. have been frustrated in every respect. I cannot journey to that country. Since I (relatives) also exactly know the most secret Russian communications methods (apparatuses) and the system, they are doing their utmost to prevent me from establishing contact with the U . S. A. I hardly believe that it will be possible by normal means. I shall not place myself into an airplane againl The Americans do not know how many Russian agents are with them. After I had written to the Pentagon about my invention, a rejection arrived. From Salzburg I have never received a reply. Seemingly, the English have lost my address and when I reported to the local FSS that I can construct the Russian apparatuses, I received... ' *)Examiner’s comment This communication is incomplete. - 5 - ADO LPH DO RNIG O n January 12, 1954, ALO IS PIVEC, 164 H allstead Street, East O range, NJ, appeared at the Newark O ffice and advised that he had received a letter from one ADO LPS-U O RNIG, W aidmannsdorferstr 80, Klagenfurt, W est Austria, on about December 20, 1953. PIVEC stated that the letter requested him to attempt to sell a number of inventions, which he, DO RNIG, had developed* PIVEC stated that the request was to contact Aircraft Companies and Sewing M achine Companies in the U nited States and attempt to interest them in these devices. According to PIVEC, DO RNIG requested that no governmental agencies be contacted. PIVEC stated that the inventions, which DO RNIG had developed were new type of-^ewing machine and a flying saucer. PIVEC stated that he came to this office because he felt that the flying saucer was of some importance in the national defense of this country. PIVEC stated that he has never met DO RNIG but that DO RNIG was given his name by-TlYEC’S brother, FRITZ , '"ho resides in Graz, Austria, and who is employed at Siemens-H alske Belggier Gasse 11, Graz, Austria. PIVEC stated that his brother workedwith DO RNIG, at one time, and he believes that DO RNIG is a chemist or some type of engineer. PIVEC stated that the contents of the letter seemed fantastic to him and that if the letter were not written in such an intelligent manner, he would have doubted DO RNIG’S sanity. H e stated that DO RNIG claims to have sold a new principle of aero-dynamics, which made it possible to construct a practical flying saucer and that DO RNIG had developed a model that flies without the usual hazards. According to PIVEC, the letter continues by stating that DO RNIG has been in contact with other men through­ out the world, who have been attempting to develop the saucer and that he has been the first to win real success. By way of background,^FlVEC stated that he was born in the vicinity of Leoben, Austria in 192$ and arrived in New York City on M arch 29, 1952 from Bremerhaven, Germany. H e is employed at the Public Service Laboratory in M aplewood, NJ» \ O n January 30, 1954, O LGA PIVEC, 164 H allstead Street, East O range, NJ, appeared at the Newark O ffice and advised that she was the wife of ALO IS PIVEC. She stated that another letter had been received from ADO LPH DO RNIG, by her husband, ALO IS PIVEC. She stated that her husband did not want to furnish the information in this letter to the FBI. She stated that he was not aware that she was furnishing this information and wished to keep the interview confidential. CO PIES D ESTRO YED 2 70 N OV 19 1864 M rs. PTVEC stated that the letter received recently by her husband, from DO RNIG, contained information that DO RNIG had been contacted by Communists in Austria, who wished to take him to Switzerland in order efforts to sell DO RNIG’S new invention O LGVPi^EC advised that she was born of that he might further develop his new principle of aero-dynamics. According to the letter, DO RNIG has continued to refuse any offer by the Communists and wished PTVEC to increase his in the U nited States. By way of background, German parents in South Russia and at the time of the German invasion of Russia, during W orld W ar H , she and her family were resettled in Germany. After the war, she married ALO IS BTVEC and came to the U nited States with . him. jli^A Da te : To: from: Subject: April 12 EHL! “T W .Y 171954 Director Federal Bureau of Investigation May 13 1954 There is FLYING SAUCERS MISCELLAN EOUS IN iGRMA TION CON CERN ING D Tolson----------- L a dd Rosen------------ Tra c y_______ M ohr Trotter______ W interrow d — Tele. Room _ Hollom a n — N ic hols--------- Belm ont.-------- Clegg G la vin Harbo Director of Special investi gattons The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon W ashington 25 John Edgar Hoover There is attached a copy of a memorandum dated 1954 captioned "Adolph Dornig" which contains information furnished to the Newark office of this Bureau by Alois Pivec and his wife, Olga Ptvec both of New Jersey143 Hallstead Street, East Orange also attached a translation from the German language of the parts of the two letters furnished by.Pivec and his wife to the N ewark office The files of this Bureau fail to reflect that any investigation has been conducted by this Bureau of Adolph Dornig, Alois pivec in view ofor Olga Ptvec the information set forth in the attached memorandum dated April 12 1954 and the translation of the parts of the letters referred to hereinno investigation is contemplated by this Bureau in this matter cc - 1 - Records Admini strati on Branch Attention: Criminal Division (/\ti&Q dM!fent) (by Q -6^Q rm on same date) M AILE D 27 ■M M M M M M M m mJ FE DE RAL BURE AU O^N VE ST lG AT ION RE CORDS SE CT ION , 1954 N ame Check Unit-Room 6523 □□Service Unit-Room 6524 □□Forward to File Review □ Retu rn to Supervisor Room Z- Z All References □ M ain References Only M ain References Only □□Restrict to Locality of □□ Breakdown □□Buildup □□Variations □ E xact N ame Only □ E xact Spel1ing □ Check for Alphabetical Loyalty Form SUBJE CT Address 2^ - Loca1 i t i es Bi rthdate & Place Searcher R# FILE N UM BE R SE RIAL FE DE RAL BURE AU O^N VE ST I G AT I ON RE CORDS SE CT ION __L __________ 1954 □ N ame Check Unit-Room 6523 □ Attention 7>ut-dJ - .^z__________ I I Service Unit-Room 6524 ff □ Forward to File Review S Return to^'^<^4X Initial -‘ FILE N UM BE R SE RIAL FE DE RAL BURE AU O^N VE ST lG AT ION RE CORDS SE CT ION N ame Check Unit-Room 6523 a l ten l i un ____:__ __ Service Unit-Room 6524 Forward to File Review Supervisor Room______ ri_ □ All References 0 Subversive References /Z CO M ain References Only References OnlyM ain □□Restrict to Locality of □ Breakdown □ Bu i Idup □□Variations □□ E xact N ame Only □ E xact Spel1ing □□Check for Alphabetical Loyalty Form SUBJE CT Address Loca1i t i es Bi rthdate & Place R# Date Searcher FILE N UM BE R SE RIAL CHANGED TO 6? -/^/^^ 4-528 a-m/y -3^3 CHANGED TO Miss Linda Butler Box 63 Hilton, Kentucky April 27, 1954 >A2S Dear Linda: . / ^jj 4 1 Taank you very much for your letter of .April 21, 1954, Although I would like to be of assistance, it is not possible for me to express an opinion regarding the subject you mentioned since it does not relate to a matter within the jurisdiction of the FBI, You may desire, however, to communicate with The Honorable, The Secretary of the Air Force, The Pentagon, W ashington 25, D, C,, for whatever information he can give you, Sincerely yours, 3, Edgar Hoove? John Edgar Hoover Director NOTE: First name salutation is being used since the correspondent indicates she is a seventh grade student. She requested the Director's opinion regarding Flying Sauc Tolson----------- L a dd-------------- N ic hols--------- Belm ont-------- Clegg--------- G la vin------------ Ha rbo------------ Rosen------------ Tra c y------------- G ea rty----------- M ohr--------------- Vinterrow d — Tele. Room ‘d Hollom a n — M iss G a ndy - "L ^ Th 9 7 WVGEM:ew ' usn^ K ?^ y W ^' COM M . voo*- FBI APR 2 8 1954 M A IL E D 3 1 MOV M 6l1^y '^"s/l B?^ ^^^ RECORDED • 19 10 APR 29 1954 a££L:V£^C hitVrUR U S jf^-OF jUSHe’F ^HE' ^li 6 m F/^ ^ °2 # >v - 5 H r•f4 TRUE COPY Apri1-21-1954 Milton, Ky, Federal Bureau of Investegation W as hi ng ton D. C. Dear Si r, The seventh grade of Milton Are studying about Flying Saucers, and I would like to have your opinion on them, Sincerely Yours, /S/ Linda Butler Milton, Ky, Address on envelope Box 63 Milton, Ky, STA N D A RD FO RM N O . 64 Office Niemorandum • u nited states g overnm ent TO : Director, FBI from ^SAC, Cincinnati (100-0) SU BJE CT : BETH U RU M ; INFO RM ATIO N CO NCERNING DATE: 6-8-^U O n 6-7-5U , M r. TH O M AS EICKH O FF, 3721 Tappan Avenue, Cincinnati 23 O hio, and M r. RALPH "ST called at this office. miwSM ANN, 2768 H ighland Avenue, Cincinnati 12, O hio M r. EICKH O FF advised he is the operator of a beauty salon in the Neave Building, Cincinnati, and M r. Z IM M ERM ANN advised he is President of the Z immermann Packing Company in Cincinnati. M r. EICKH O FF did all the talking for the two men and he furnished the following informa­ tion: O n 6-3-51) an ad appeared in the "Cincinnati Enquirer," general circulation, Cincinnati, O hio, to the effect that on a newspaper of 6-11-5U a program would be presented at Taft Auditorium, Cincinnati, O hio, on "The Real flying Saucer Story." The advertisement which M r. EICKH O FF exhibited disclosed no sponsor for this program and it was only noted on the ad that tickets for the program sold for $ 2.00 per person and would be on sale at the Central Ticket O ffice in Cincinnati. M r. EICKH O FF advised that although he belongs to no organization interested in flying saucers, he has been interested in this subject and has been interested to the extent that he desired to know the sponsorship of the program. H e stated that he found out from the Central Ticket O ffice that the ad had been placed by H ENRY M ALAY, 36k W est Lewiston Avenue, Ferndale 20, M ichigan. H e advised that he telephonic ally contacted M ADAY on 6-3-51) and M ADAY stated that he was only the for renting the hall and that he was acting on behalf of TR TH U RU M and GEO RGE H U NT W ILLIAM SO N. H e stated*that on 6-h-^h M ADAY called him back and told him that there had been a disagreement between M ADAY, BETH U RU M and W ILLIM SO N over M ADAY’s arrangements for the sale of tickets for the program and the renting of the hall. EICKH O FF advised that at this time M ADAY said nothing to discredit either BETH U RU M or W ILLIAM SO N and indicated that their disagreement only concerned his placing the ad in the newspaper prior to having the tickets for the program available in Cincinnati RCD:CVM CC: Los Angeles (RM ) Indianapolis (RM ) RECORDED-86 ^ IN DEXED - 86 REGISTERED M AIL AIR M AIL SPECIAL DELIVERY CO PIES D ESTRO YED 270 N OV 19 1964 20 JUN 11 1954 bets ns’- G. J eri-* ^ol vni^iod ' rnoxt s^a -. b ■/t -rx.^.f. h+sm iafitD* edit nt baiseq^a 5s its 4£-£*$ - ' be arft no g s^ok y^h o aa< di im irsnjoiq a-df nut ^oanog^ on hosoibetb ■ ^j'; % '♦?■' lol bios JBS'T$aiq j/' - : .fisnotoat? nt b-'o-J' Letter to Director June 8, 195U M r. EICKH O FF continued that ten minutes after he had talked to M ADAY on Friga’r7''6-U -5U , he received a call from GEO RGE HUN T-TIEliAM SON and a M jx^CSnSPEAKER, who confirmed to him that M ADAY was no longer associated with them, and who asked that EICKH O FF meet with them at a . luncheon at the Terrace Plaza H otel on 6-7-5H . M r. EICKH O FF, in explanation of his interest in this matter, ad­ vised that he had read such books as "Flying Saucers From O uter Space," written by DO NALD E. KEH O E, retired major, U . S, M arine Corps, which book was published by H arper’s Publishers, and a book entitled "Flying Saucers H ave Landed," by GEO RGE ADAM SKI, which book is published by W erner-Lowery Company in England, and is distributed by the British Book Center in New York City. H e said that he has also heard broadcasts by persons he considers reputable news commentators, such as W ALTER W INCH ELL, FU LTO N LEW IS, JR., and FRANK EDW ARDS, to the effect that reliable persons have reported observing flying discs or saucers. H e said contrary to these reports, the U . S. Air Force has denied the ex­ istence of the flying saucer and he felt that persons such as TRU M AN BETH U RU M and GEO RGE H U NT W ILLIAM SO N, in presenting a program such as that contemplated, were either truthful or they were frauds. H e stated that if they had a true story to tell, then he felt it was of such nature that it should be given as wide a distribution as possible, so that the people might learn the true facts regarding flying discs. H e said, however, if their story was not true, then the holding of such a meeting as was contemplated would be a fraud on the general public. H e estimated that such a meeting in Cincinnati might draw two thousand people, which, at $ 2.00 apiece, would result in a $ h,000.00 take for the promoters. To identify TRU M AN BETH U RU M , M r. EICKH O FF had with him two copies of the magazine "Valor," which he stated he got from BETH U RU M , this magazine being self-identified as the "Golden Times W eekly," published by Soul Craft Chapels, Post O ffice Box 192, Noblesville, Indiana. The two issues which M r. EICKH O FF had with him were numbers 15 and 16 of volume 6 of the publication, the number 15 being dated 2-6-5U and number 16 being dated 2-13-5U . The number 15 issue contained an article concerning TRU M AN BETH U RU M , in which he is identified as a truck driver from Redondo Beach, California, and it refers to an article dated 12-31-53, which appeared in the "Daily Breeze," a newspaper at Redondo Beach, California, which allegedly contained a description of an encounter - 2 - Letter to Director June 8, 195k which TRU M AN BETH U RU M had with a crew of assumed space explorers under the supervision of a ravishing woman commandant in the Nevada desert. The article also reflects that TRU M AN BETH U RU M allegedly was aboard flying saucers on eleven occasions.. At the bottom of the first page of issue number 15 there appeared in what M r. EICKH O FF stated was the handwriting of TRU M AN BETH U RU M the statement "This is a true story, a factual experience — TRU M AN BETH U RU M ." The above mentioned article in "Valor" also reflected that TRU M AN BETH U RU M is 55 years of age and that his residence address is 519 North Gertruda Avenue, Redondo Beach, California. M r. EICKH O FF also had with him a letter addressed to TRU M AN BETH U RU M from W ILLIAM GILRO Y of the Saucers Research Foundation, which letter re­ flected that that organization was holding a three-day convention June k, 5 and 6, 195k at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles, California, and that it had invited TRU M AN BETH U RU M to this convention to say a few words concerning his experience. GILRO Y was identified in this letter as business manager of Criswell Predicts Your W orld of Tomorrow, 1922 North H ighland, H ollywood 28, California. M r. EICKH O FF reiterated that he felt BETH U RU M ’s story, if true, should be given wide publicity, but that if the story was false, then he should be prosecuted for fraud. H e stated that he first took his in­ formation to the Air Force in the person of Lieutehant^Colonel JO H N O ’M ARA of W right-Patterson Air Force Base, O hio, whom EICKH O FF visited personally at O 'M ARA's home in Fairborn, O hio, on Sunday, 6-6-51. ETU KH O FF indicated that he asked Colonel 0’ M ARA if there were such things as flying saucers and if BETH U RU M ’s story could be true, and he said O ’M ARA denied that there was such a thing as a flying saucer and indicated to him that DO NALD E. KEH O E, the author of "Flying Saucers in Cuter Space" was a fraud and that information is available in W ashington that KEH O E is a fraud. H e said he was advised, however, by Colonel O ’M ARA that the Air Force could take no action with respect to BETH U RU M or W ILL­ IAM SO N. EICKH O FF continued that it was his intention to aid in the promotion of a meeting for BETH U RU M in Cincinnati. H e advised that the original meeting scheduled for June 11 had been cancelled, and that he felt this meeting had such important information for the people as a whole that he was going to make every effort to make the meeting one of national - 3 - Letter to Director; June 8, 1954 significance. ‘H e said he intended to invite to the meeting all nationally prominent news commentators. H e intended to try to get radio time to ad­ vertise the meeting but he did not wish to participate in this matter in any way if it would violate security regulations in any manner, or if BETH U RU M and his associates were in any way fraudulent. H e stated that he so informed BETH U RU M , W ILLIAM SO N and M r. M ANSPEAKER at the luncheon meeting which was held at the Terrace Plaza H otel on 6-7-54* They informed him that they were not afraid of an investigation; that BETH U RU M ’s story was factual, and that they had no objection to EICKH O FF* s advising Government authorities regarding it. / M r. EICKH O FF stated that his report to this office was part of his 1 plan to inform all the Federal agencies he thought should know about the activities of BETH U RU M . H e advised that in line with his contemplated ’ plans that on the evening of 6-7-54 there was to be another meeting at rhe home of L. H <7pTRINGFIELD, 7017 Britton Avenue, Cincinnati 27, O hio, at which meeting there would be M r. STRINGFIELD, W ILLIAM SO N, M ANSPEAKER, BETH U RU M , RALPH Z IM M ERM ANN and M r. EICKH O FF. H e said at this meeting they would plan a method of operation and make arrangements for this meeting of national significance. H e said he intended to set the date of the meeting far enough in advance so that if any Governmental agency determined that there was fraud involved that agency would have sufficient time to act prior to the holding of the meeting. H e advised he intended to keep a detailed record of all actions taken by this group, and that he would voluntarily furnish such information to the FBI. EICKH O FF advised that he had not known and had not met either BETH U RU M , W ILLIAM SO N or M ANSPEAKER prior to the events described above. H e said that GEO RGE H U NT W ILLIAM SO N identified himself as an archeologist and a writer for the magazine '’Valor," who resides in Noblesville, Indiana. H e said that M ANSPEAKER, whose first name he did not know, is also connected with "Valor” magazine in some way. H e was asked as to what interest "Valor" magazine has in BETH U RU M , and whether BETH U RU M was sponsored by any other organization. H e advised that he did not know the interest of "Valor" magazine in BETH IRU M , and so far as he knew, BETH U RU M was acting on his own and had no organizational affiliations or sponsorship. H e was asked as to what disposition would be made of receipts from a large meeting and he advised that he did not know what disposition would be made of the money. H e said he understood that Letter to Director; June 8, 195k BETH U RU M had been on tour for some time and that the meeting scheduled for Cincinnati originally on 6-ll-5k ‘was to be the beginning of a new series of meetings. The files of this office contain no information which can be identified with TH O M AS EICKH O FF, TRU M AN BETH U RU M , GEO RGE H U NT 'W ILLIAM SO N, J. H . STRINGFIELD, and Lt. Col. JO H N O ’M ARA. The indices reflect that by letter dated 2-7-52, Indianapolis file 61-5, the Indianapolis O ffice advised the Cincinnati O ffice under the caption of "Silver Shirt Legion of America, Inc.; Internal Security - X," that the Silver Shirt Legion of America, Inc., whose leader is W ILLIAM DU DLEY PELLEY, was at that time operating under the name of Soul Craft Press, with headquarters and printing facilities in Noblesville, Indiana. W ith regard to RALPH Z IM M ERM ANN, the indices of this office reflect that as of July, 19k2, he was general manager of the Z immermann Packing Company, a mechanical packing firm at 139-lhl W est Fourth St., Cincinnati. No further action is being taken in this matter by this office, and the foregoing is for the Bureau’s information and for the information of the Los Angeles and Indianapolis O ffices. - 5 - SAC, Cincinnati June 22, 1954 RE CORDE D 3 Director* FBI (62-83 8 94) TRU M AN BETH U RU M ; FLYING DISCS M ISCELLANEO U S - INFO RM ATIO N CO NCERNING (ESPIO NAGE) Reurlet 6/8/54 You are instructed to recontact Thomas Eickhoff, referred to in your referenced letter and advise him this Bureau has no jurisdiction concerning the investigation of matters relating to flying discs and that the U nited States Air Force has such jurisdiction. You are instructed to advise him this Bureau cannot approve or disapprove of his activities in connection with this matter and that the placing of this Bureau on notice as to his activities will not exonerate him in the event he engages in any fraudulent or criminal activities. You are instructed to furnish the information set forth in your referenced letter to O SI locally memorandum suitable fordissemination to and to the Bureau in a O SI headquarters. NO TE: Thomas Eickhoff, office he is interested Cincinnati, O hio advised the Cincinnati in flying discs and has recently met several persons who claimed o have had experiences with flying discs. H e stated he intended to assist such persons in arranging for public meeting in Cincinnati, at which matters relating to flying discs will be discussed and that he expects the meeting will result in a "four thousand dollar take." H e advised he believed the experiences alleged by the persons referred to above and that those persons would participate in the meeting. H e stated he had been advised by the Air Force that it was it's opinion claims made by the persons referred to above concerning flying discs and their experiences with same were fraudulent. H e stated he wanted to put all federal agencies on notice in order that they prevent the planned meeting re flying discs if it was by the Government. M ohr. W interrowd_____ T ele. Room____ Holloman______ M iss G andy___ 2 53 mm JUN 221954 M A IL tP 3 7 | T olson Boardman N ichols__ Belmont— G lavin__ Harbo___ Rosen___ T amm___ EH M :egp £ 9l? ■ mV W '^ could act to deemed necessary DIH E CT O R, F BI 6/^ 54 SAC, SE AT T LE RE P O RT S O N ALLE GE D SIGH T IN G O F SU BM ARIN E S P ARACH U T E LAN DIN GS, F LASH IN G LIGH T S, E T C. E SP IO N AGE / // It has been the experience of this office that during this season, from now until winter, there is received a considerable num ber of alleged reports on sighting of submarines, flashing lights, parachute landings, flying saucers, etc. Ln every instance when such reports are received, the information is im m ediately disseminated to DIO , 13 N D, U . S. N avy; O SI, U SAF ; and R-3, U . S. Arm y. < A Inasm uch as Seattle is the District H eadquarters for the Intelligence Agencies in the P acific N orthwest, reports received, usually from the U SCG, concerning incidents in the state of O regon are Im m ediately reported to that office as well as the Intelligence Agencies. I M any of the reports are of a nebulous type, im possible of corroborating,' ^ and of doubtful authenticity. Som e, by prelim inary inquiry and evaluation prove to be without foundation. H owever, as stated above, reports of this type are im mediately disseminated to the Intelligence Agencies without evaluation, followed by additional inform ation as obtained. a T his office has no control of the dissemination of these reports on a "spot" basis by the local intelligence offices to their H eadquarters in W ashington, D. C. T he Bureau will recall the widespread dissem ination given by the m ilitary agencies of "Radio M essage M arch 13, 1953, Interpreted as Calling for M obilization of Com munist P arty" (SAC Letter #23, dated 3/31/53). I Q T he purpose of this letter is to advise the Bureau that in all instances im m ediate dissemination is m ade of all unusual incidents that appear to have any m ilitary significance. T his office also acts as a co­ ordinator on all reports to be certain that all interested agencies are cognizant. INITIALS ON ORIGINAL T he Bureau m ay be assured that it will be kept advised of all significant incidents as they arise but will not be bothered with every trivial incident that occurs unless instructed LAD:hz cc: P ortland E nds. NOT RBC 87 JU 9 1954 53 ’JU119W DIRECTOR, FBI SAC, SEATTLE RE: REPORTS ON ALLEGED SIGHTING OF SUBMARINES, 6-18-54 PARACHUTE LANDINGS, FLASHING LIGHTS, ETC. ESPIONAGE OSI advises us that they have no interest whatsoever themselves in connection with these matters and that Operations of the Air Force doesn’t even advise them. Colonel S. W. RAYNOR, District Commander, OSI, states that there is an evaluation at Wright-Patterson Field where the data is correlated, that the reports are handled from the Air Force here to that point in a routine fashion and that OSI gives no credence whatsoever to it because they have never had any previous experience of any kind as to anything arising out of the situation. There is attached hereto a copy of a communication marked ’’CONFIDENTIAL" requesting data concerning the situation as well as several recent publications, some of which are Issued by the Air Force itself. It is the opinion of Colonel RAYNOR that the releases are a poor thing and create mass hysteria, but he says he has nothing whatsoever to do with the situation. -2 - 2251 ;> - June 25, 1954 ^ CO W DE D^ j E X-112 5677 North Las Casas Avenue Chicago 30* Illinois Dear Mr, Gunderson t I sincerely appreciate the interest which prompted your letter of June 21, 1954; however, I am not in a position, as a matter of policy, to comment regarding the book you mentioned since it does not deal with a natter within the Jurisdiction of the FBI, It is suggested that you consider the advisabt lity of communicating with The Honorable, The Secretary of the Air Force, The Pentagon, W ashington 35, D, C,, for whatever information he can give you along the lines of your inquiries. Sincerely yours, John Edgar Hoover Di rector T olson ___,__ Board man_____ N ichols_______ Belmont______ G lavin________ Harbo________ Rosen________ T amm_________ T racy_________ M ohr > interr owd___ T ele. Room___ Holloman_____ M iss G andy___ , N OTE} Correspondent desired information concerning the book "Flying Saucers Have Landed" by Desmond Leslie and George Adamski. F ederal Bureau of Investigation, 6/21/5U W ashington, D. C. Gentlemen: A book was published in 1953 by Desmon