4^S © Q (S°3 *0 °3 6) ((XiATtSI^IAL © D eclassification authority derived :rom FBI A utom atic D eclassification G uide, issued M ay 24, 2007 NW 9 1 1 73 T^^ ®®ia gy LOW Udiit n«cM:34743666 Paae 1 ^&% i ^rsshgtaum ffilpwq' REV. CHARLES C. BARNES, PASTOR Box 39 1 , jffir^Iiitnfeille, © regnn ' January 31, 1949 Mr. J, Edgar Hoover Washington D.C. * Dear Mr. Hoover: Here is a bit of information which may be of great signi­ ficance, or may be merely an observation of a sientific experi­ ment. It may be known by military authorities and the A.E.C. or only a few may have seen it and none reported it to the right place. Here it is. Can you pass it to the rig^t persons? . Last May one afternoon I saw four beams' in the sky passing from the northwest to the southeast and converging in the Cascade mountains. In those four narrow beams small ^loudd were forming. And where the beams met apparently against the mountains a great explosion effect was to be seen. I would say that they were visible for at least 10 minutes or longer. The sight brought to mind an article read before the war about experiments carried on in Europe with various types of radio beams to effect rainfall. I would guess that I had seen the article, in the Science Digest. ‘ ^Hj . The Columbia River flood of last summer and the unusual ,^^/ precipitation this winter have forced me to* feel that this observation of mine should be sent somewhere in the interest j of national security. ~ ^y : I have one son in the Ai r Corps and anothercwbrkg with the ^y i A.E.C. at Hanford which causes me to pray for peace,’as well ; as the fact that as a minister I deplore the waste and tragedy . . of war. That is one reason that I have refrained from passing v ' on information and ideas that might incite warlike attitudes. May I add these words to paragraph two. The explosion effect seemed to rise to a height of about ten thousand feet. SW0I83J Nomas swiiniimio £a^j 999£WK:PPOC1 £2146 MN MhSH 10 UMUW30 woixusMiM io a^nas i Nd asm 9W9N *J« _____ ®00H *9191 _u^3uiuuea _____ OQJW ‘^ _B9umo ______ ireSg -jw ______Xomx -JR ___ U980M •JR a«w« PP«1 ’JR awo •TO U09I01 •OH #R«W «i»# #^#.IW' ^W^|#>#i^ ff# #| » ww #B#1^# < ^ ^ p^O^# pai^l' ^» ^ «^t^®O" iW