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Um disco prateado a 6.000 pés. Um reflexo metálico "muito brilhante". Sem som. Sem rastro.

Esta pasta tem 178 páginas. Carimbo: TOP SECRET. Assinaturas: 133. Imagens arquivadas: 194. Redações: 125 — algumas sob o código (b)(1) 1.4(a), reservado para segurança nacional.

O nome no topo dos memorandos: J. Edgar Hoover, diretor do FBI. Os destinatários: Air Force, OSI, Air Materiel Command. Os lugares: Los Alamos. Houston. Fort Smith. O Ártico.

Disco. Elipsoide. Charuto. Esfera. Um objeto descrito como "1/4 de papel" que mudava de forma no ar. Outro: "double balloon with trailing object" — escuro, silencioso.

O campo concept lista uma palavra sozinha: DESTROY.

O que Hoover sabia que não podia ser arquivado?

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A 12-year-old in Radford, Virginia, was playing at a neighbor's house when he looked up and called for his mother.
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On the night of December 5, 1948, Captain Goode was at 18,000 feet in a C-47, bound from Lowry Air Force Base in Denver to Williams Air Force Base in Chandler, Arizona. At approximately 9:27 PM, closing on Albuquerque from the east, he saw
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In January 1948 [[doc-65-hs1-834228961-62-hq-83894-section-4/p018#c0105]], a pilot named Mantell died. The Air Force incident summary recorded what he had been chasing:
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FBI Headquarters File 62-83894 — "Flying Discs" (Section 4)

Correspondence, Reports, and Intelligence, 1947–1953

This section of the FBI's main Flying Discs case file (62-83894) spans roughly 214 pages of incoming citizen letters, inter-agency memoranda, field-office teletypes, newspaper clippings, and intelligence summaries covering the period from late 1947 through mid-1953. The material documents the Bureau's posture of deliberate non-investigation — deferring formal inquiry to the Air Force while systematically recording every voluntary submission it received — and preserves a uniquely granular cross-section of American public anxiety, military intelligence, and official policy around unidentified aerial phenomena.

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Part 1 — The Lonnie Noack "Flying Disc" Discovery (Pages 1, 54–63, 100–101, 114, 122–123)

Noack's Signed Statement (Page 1, ca. December 1947)

Lonnie Edward Noack submitted a voluntary statement witnessed by representatives of OSI, Ellington Field, Texas, and the FBI Houston Office. Noack stated he returned home around 10:30 a.m. and was immediately contacted by Frank Reed of the Houston Post city desk, who wanted details about "the disc." Noack declined to release information until he had spoken with his lawyer, Mr. Blackwood. Blackwood's FBI contacts were no longer stationed locally, so Noack went directly to the FBI and turned over the material.

Noack added: "Although I can't describe where this object is located, I believe I could go back to it and I am sure Mr. Person and Mr. Smith could go back to it."

He identified two associates: Mr. Nathan Smith, Nathan Smith Electrical Company, 105 South Pasadena Avenue, South Pasadena, California; and Mr. R. C. Person, president, Vasco Electrical Manufacturing Company, 4116 Avalon Boulevard, Los Angeles, California. For photographic record, Noack noted he filmed at 16 frames per second, f6.3 aperture, using Cine-Kodak Kodachrome film.

Houston Teletype to Director, December 28, 1948 (Pages 54–56, 60–62)

Filed: FBI Houston, 12-28-48, 1:12 PM CST. URGENT. Addressed to: Director and SACs Cincinnati and Los Angeles. Attention: Inspector Howard Fletcher.

Subject: Flying Disk — Lonnie Edward Noack, Complainant.

Noack, employed as a machinist at Humble Oil Company, Houston (residence: 2921 Chicago Street), had contacted the office on December 27. His signed statement provided the following:

  • Noack flew from Houston to Hollywood on commercial airline, December 5.
  • On December 6 he contacted R. C. Person, 4116 Avalon Blvd., Los Angeles (Vasco Electrical Manufacturing Co., Adams 5281), who reported seeing an object resembling a flying disc in a desert area some distance from Hollywood.
  • On December 7, Noack, Person, and Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Smith, 105 South Pasadena Ave., South Pasadena, traveled by private automobile. They located the disk approximately 150 miles northeast of Pasadena, about 20 miles northeast of Lone Pine, California, on a desert area adjacent to approximately 900 acres of land owned by Person as a private airfield.
  • Noack, Person, and Smith photographed the disk with movie and Speed-Graphic cameras. Noack's film was 8mm, Revere brand, developed at Eastman Kodak, Los Palmas Street, Los Angeles. Films received by Noack in Houston by mail, December 23.

Description of the object (Page 2 of teletype, page 62): "Film shows disk to be approximately seven feet in diameter and approximately two feet thick in the middle with feather edge on rim. Abutting the saucer in the middle and on both sides are four-foot wings resembling conventional airplane type. No markings, no radio, and appeared to have landed at great speed. Disk in comparatively good condition. The ends of both wings had attached a small aluminum cylinder apparently for jet propulsion. One of these cylinders obtained by Noack as souvenir and currently in possession of this office. Film similarly maintained."

SA Robert Fleming, OSI, Ellington Field, was notified December 27. On December 28, Fleming notified the District Commander, Fifth OSI District, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. SAC R. B. Hood, Los Angeles, was telephonically notified with request that Bureau agents accompany OSI when examining and retrieving the disk.

A follow-up Los Angeles teletype (Page 56) stated: "Contact will be made with Smith, Rice, and Wolfert, to secure photographs and samples. Bureau will be advised."

Internal FBI Memo — Fletcher to Ladd, December 28, 1948 (Page 58)

Inspector H. B. Fletcher reported that SAC Willis, Houston, had called at 10:00 a.m. with details: businessman Fuller Blackwell had furnished pictures taken by Lonnie Noack (Humble Oil Company). Noack and a companion had flown privately from California to Houston and at about 30 miles east of Lone Pine observed a strong reflection from an object on the ground. Fletcher authorized Willis to ensure a Bureau Agent was present when the Army Air Forces examined the object, and to make arrangements with the California office accordingly.

Los Angeles Field Report — W. Nathan Provinse, March 30, 1949 (Pages 122–123)

Synopsis of Facts: "Object described by complainant as possible flying disc determined to be a model tow target or kite which had been abandoned after unsuccessful tests. Portions of target positively identified by Henry T. Rice, L.A. manufacturer and erstwhile financial backer, as being part of the model target or kite."

Specifically: an employee of Smith's had recognized parts retained by Smith as resembling objects manufactured by Olsen and Rice Manufacturing Company (toy manufacturers, Los Angeles). Smith contacted Olsen and Rice, who confirmed they were financing Claude Leroy Wolfert, Los Angeles, in developing a kite for sale on the open market as a toy. They had taken experimental kites to Smith's airport at Helendale. Case closed.

Laboratory Disposition, January 25, 1949 (Pages 100–101)

The FBI Laboratory noted that prior to examining the 8mm film and disk parts, information had been received that identified the object as a tow target and later a toy kite; accordingly, no laboratory examination was conducted. Items (the 8mm movie film and parts of the supposed flying disc) were returned via registered mail to SAC, Houston.

Part 2 — Portland Police Sighting, September 1947 (Page 4)

File reference: PD 62-1531.

Chief of Police Leon V. Jenkins was traveling south on N. Williams Avenue near Russell Street when he and his driver, Officer H. S. Raney, received a radio dispatch from District 14 to watch for an unknown object sighted by officers in District 18. Jenkins observed a round silver object approximately 10,000 feet high, traveling northeast to southwest. On further observation, its shape appeared to change — becoming egg-shaped — and it moved at extreme speed. It disappeared in about 30 seconds.

Raney said the object appeared to him as a glare of sunlight on some surface. He saw it straight ahead, traveling away from his car; it was out of sight after he traveled 4–5 city blocks at ~25 mph. "He believes it could possibly have been a reflection from a large airplane at great altitude."

Robert W. Shaylor, 4810 N. Fessenden Street, Portland (on duty in District 14 with Officer Donald W. Cowling on September 11, 1947), stated they scanned the sky from open territory but saw nothing, "not even any airplanes."

A short article in The Oregonian for September 12, 1947 described the Jenkins sighting; the paper had received several calls from other witnesses whose identities were not recorded.

Part 3 — Anchorage Sighting Report (Page 6)

File: Anchorage 100-1406.

A brief summary reports that Mr. Peck and Mr. Daly — both described as well-known, reliable, and responsible flyers — observed something that "appears definite." Submitted to the Bureau for information. No further details preserved on this page.

Part 4 — Citizen Correspondence, 1947–1948 (Pages 9–27)

This series documents unsolicited letters sent to the FBI in the months after the summer 1947 disc wave.

"Grand Ma Mc Caul" (Pages 9–11, ca. October 1947)

A handwritten letter speculating that "flying discs" might be enemy sabotage devices — "a new delayed fire starter object" similar to "little plain looking fuses, were time bombs to start fires in ships." The writer noted simultaneous forest fires across the country and urged the FBI to ask populations in "ruined enemy" countries whether they had seen discs. She signed as "Grand Ma Mc Caul."

Mrs. Milo A. Durand — Elizabethtown, New York (Pages 13–14)

Filed November 15, 1947 (serial 62-83894-135). Mrs. Durand wrote that with all the forest fires in Maine and out West, she wondered whether the flying discs had anything to do with them: "Could not they have been incendiary falling to earth then with drought and heat from the sun ignite..." She expressed great respect for the Bureau and mentioned that "scientists were investigating the way the fires flared up in different parts away from the main fire." Handled by Stop Desk; no action taken.

FBI Reply — Joseph W. Omiline (Page 16, November 8, 1947)

Director John Edgar Hoover replied to Joseph W. Omiline, 6071 69th Avenue, Ridgewood, Brooklyn, New York (serial 62-83894-136), whose November 2 letter asked questions concerning flying saucers and the Bureau's investigation of Russians. Hoover's reply: "The information contained in the files of this Bureau has been declared confidential and available for official use only, and I am unable to be of any assistance to you."

Internal note: "This individual asked questions concerning flying saucers and the Bureau's investigation of Russians."

Port Allegany, Pennsylvania — Red Cross Dinner Report (Page 17, November 18, 1947)

A citizen reported that following a Red Cross dinner on November 6, 1947, Dr. H. E. Cromwell passed on a statement by Mr. Joe Lippincott that "saucers seen across the country were from Spain" and that the government in Washington had confirmed this but kept it secret. The letter writer questioned the "advisability of an accredited representative of the Red Cross giving out this information, even 'off the record.'"

Marion Beuscher — Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin (Pages 18–23, January 5, 1948)

Beuscher forwarded to Hoover an anonymous threatening letter she had received from Cincinnati, postmarked January 2, 1948. The letter (signed by "Marion Beuscher" in the original) stated:

"In as much as all of you insist on talking and of telling of what you are supposed to be seeing, all of you must be warned... these things are decidedly not supposed to be seen. Please do not mention anymore."

Beuscher had previously published a letter in Amazing Stories magazine (January 1948, page 167) describing how her brother had seen "about seven to ten" flying saucers on June 28, 1947 at 3:43 P.M., "which flew directly over our house... went like 'blue blazes,' didn't make any noise and were heading approximately South."

The Amazing Stories editor (Ray A. Palmer) responded: "The flying saucers are real, and you can be sure of that! Let your neighbors think what they will, in a few months you will be able to prove how good your brother's eyesight is!"

The same issue of Amazing Stories carried a letter from W. C. Hefferlin, Ray-O-Day Mfg. Co., Livingston, Montana, referencing his earlier article "Circle-Winged Plane" and claiming the observed craft belonged to "a world government consisting of all the oppressed peoples and dominated nations of the earth... directed and advised by an organization headed by 'The Ancient Three, Who were, Who are, Who will be.' Their headquarters is 'Rainbow City,' Antarctica."

Beuscher wrote to Hoover: "As my letter is a warning letter with a Threat, and coming through the U.S. mail, I am sending it to you personally so that it can be investigated. Please keep this confidential since under the circumstances, I do not feel entirely safe." Noted as routed through the Stop Desk; handled as internal security matter.

N. J. Marshall — Covington, Ohio (Pages 24–27, ca. January–February 1948)

Marshall, R.R. 1, Covington, Ohio, theorized in a handwritten letter that the discs seen "in Texas probably dropped in the Gulf" and proposed that they used circular tracer devices to guide projectiles to Lake Erie or other targets: "If the projectile plunged in the lake, the range finders wouldn't have any way to tell where it dropped, so the projectile must have some sort of tracer... made to fly in a circle" to remain aloft and provide a fix. He signed: "I think this is serious business."

Hoover's acknowledgment (February 5, 1948, serial 62-83894-139): "Your letter dated January 29, 1948, has been received, and I want to express my appreciation to you for having made known your views."

Part 5 — Air Force — FBI Policy Coordination (Pages 29–35)

San Francisco FBI to Director, February 12, 1948 (Pages 29–30)

SAC Harry M. Kimball, San Francisco, forwarded two letters to Director Hoover (Attention: Assistant Director D. M. Ladd):

First letter (page 29): Transmitted a letter from Lt. Colonel Donald Springer, A-2, U.S. Air Force, Hamilton Air Force Base, California, dated February 4, 1948. This was a letter from Headquarters, Air Defense Command, Mitchel Air Force Base, New York, addressed to Commanding Generals of the First, Second, Fourth, Tenth, Eleventh, and Fourteenth Air Forces, by command of Lieutenant General Stratemeyer, on the subject of "Investigation and Reporting of 'Flying Disc' Incidents."

The SAC noted that Paragraph 2 indicated investigations "will be coordinated with the FBI Office concerned." This was contrary to Bureau Bulletin No. 57, Series 1947, dated October 1, 1947, which directed that all flying disc reports be referred to the Air Force and that no investigative action be taken by Bureau agents. San Francisco requested clarification of current policy.

Second letter (page 30): Kimball also forwarded a similar letter from Lt. Colonel Donald Shirley, Air Force, Hamilton Field, directing coordination with the FBI (Paragraph 3). Same policy question raised; reference now to Bureau Bulletin No. 24, October 1, 1947.

Air Defense Command Directive, February 4, 1948 (Page 31)

Headquarters, Air Defense Command, Mitchel AFB, New York. D 333.5 (CIB). February 4, 1948. Subject: Investigation and Reporting of "Flying Disc" Incidents.

Key provisions:

  1. Numbered air forces responsible for prompt investigation; futile expenditure of manpower to be avoided.
  2. Flying discs investigated as Counter Intelligence Incident Cases (USAF Operating Intelligence structure). Hoax reports to be reported to the FBI office concerned.
    • a. CIC personnel may be used.
    • b. "Investigations will be coordinated with the FBI Office concerned in accordance with instructions contained in letter, this headquarters, D 333.3 EX, subject, 'Cooperation of FBI with AAF on Investigation of Flying Disc Incidents,' 3 September 1947."
  3. Reports to be narrative in style; Spot Reports followed by Letter Reports on all incidents.
  4. Spot Reports on incidents of "substantial character" — where "the patent credibility of the witness is beyond challenge and whose technical" [text cuts off].

FBI Internal Memo — Keay to Ladd, March 1, 1948 (Page 33)

V. P. Keay advised Ladd that the San Francisco Field Division's inquiry had been addressed: a letter was forwarded to San Francisco confirming no change in Bureau policy. This had been discussed by SA S. W. Reynolds of the Liaison Section with Lt. Colonel C. P. Martin of the Intelligence Division, Air Force. Martin advised that "apparently the Air Defense Command at Mitchel Field was not aware of the fact that the Bureau was no longer conducting investigations regarding flying discs."

FBI Internal Memo — Coyne to Ladd, February 19, 1948 (Page 35)

J. P. Coyne had raised the policy question in a February 19 memo. Recommendation: discuss with Liaison Section and Air Forces. Action: letter dispatched to San Francisco confirming no change in Bureau policy.

Part 6 — Senator Wherry and the Nebraska Sighting (Pages 37–42)

Senator Kenneth S. Wherry to Hoover, March 22, 1948

Senator Wherry (Nebraska, Senate Committee on Appropriations) forwarded a constituent's letter: "Attached you will find [a] letter which may or may not be of interest to your office. However, I felt it should be passed on to you for whatever the information is worth."

Kenneth L. Frazier — Benkelman, Nebraska (Pages 38–39)

Letter dated March 14, 1948:

On March 13, 2:30 P.M. M.S.T., Frazier witnessed "a strange sight in the sky traveling at a very high rate of speed at a very high altitude." He was first attracted by "a noise of motor or whatever it was... like that of a train rumbling in the distance of from 10 to 12 miles on a still day." At first he thought it might be a vapor trail, but "the white streak... never changed its shape or did it change in the direction of travel." Speed was greater than any plane he had seen capable of leaving a vapor trail. He described it as "a stream lined train traveling at a very high altitude at very high rate of speed" that disappeared while still high above the horizon.

Object traveled east to west, appeared to have passed over Denver or slightly south. Frazier's son was present and also witnessed it. He compared it to a smoke cloud from a meteor (which he had previously seen explode over Norton, Kansas) and stated it was definitively not "a bright ball of fire." The silver streak moved "altogether as a unit." Witness lived approximately 180 miles due east by air.

Hoover's reply, March 24, 1948: "Since the matter you mentioned is not within the scope of authority of this Bureau, I have taken the liberty of furnishing a copy of your communication to the Secretary of the Army." Senator Wherry replied April 1, 1948, thanking Hoover for forwarding to proper authorities.

Part 7 — Project "SIGN" — Soil Sample (Pages 46–53)

Air Materiel Command to FBI Laboratory, September 9, 1948 (Pages 46–47)

From: Headquarters, Air Materiel Command, MCIAXO-3/FWA/aw, Wright-Patterson AF Base. Signed by: W. R. Clingerman, Colonel, USAF, Chief, Technical Intelligence Division, Intelligence Department (handwritten annotation: "James J. Hausman, Lt Col USAF").

Under Project "SIGN", an accompanying soil sample was submitted for analysis. The sample was taken from a depression "reputed to have been caused by a 'flying saucer' described as being approximately two feet in diameter and one foot thick" which "supposedly settled gently to the ground, rebounded to a height of about twenty feet and then continued on its journey." A large washtub had been placed over the declivity, but a heavy rain had filled the depression about one-third with water before the sample was taken.

Wright-Patterson requested the FBI Laboratory perform petrographic-geologic (micro) examination to determine: unusual elements or alloys adhering to soil particles; any abnormality showing the soil was subjected to "intense heat, gases or radio-active substances." No surrounding soil was available for comparison. The sample had not been tested by any other agency.

FBI Laboratory Work Sheet, September 22, 1948 (Page 48)

Lab # PC-23142 CO. File # 62-33894-146. Re: Project "SIGN" — Examination of Soil. Requested by: Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson. Examination type: Micro (Petrographic-Geologic). Examiner: JEVONS. Evidence registered: September 14, reg. no. 1171535. Returned October 18, 1948 via registered mail.

Inventory of Contents — FBI to Air Materiel Command (Page 53)

October 7–9, 1948. The soil sample (PC-23142 CO) was returned via registered mail (reg. no. 497699) to Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson, Attention: MCIAXO-3.

Part 8 — Oakland/Valley City Citizen Letter (Pages 49, 51)

Mrs. R. B. Holiday, 609 Conkling, Valley City, North Dakota (October 15, 1948). Letter content largely illegible in the scan; her drawing of a bird (goldfinch) was noted. Hoover replied October 19, 1948: "I do want to thank you for the patriotic motives which prompted you to make available your thoughts concerning the subject you mentioned."

Part 9 — Colonel Gasser's Intelligence Report (Pages 103–105)

Internal Memo — D. M. Ladd to Director, January 24, 1949

Ladd reported that Colonel C. D. Gasser, Resident Engineer, Air Materiel Command, U.S. Army, Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft (NEPA) Research Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, had confidentially provided the following intelligence:

  • Air Force Intelligence believed flying discs are man-made missiles, rather than natural phenomena. Extensive research was being done at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio.
  • Flying discs had been "a theoretical possibility" for many years and would "indicate one of the best means by which to break through the barriers of the supersonic area." Some experimentation had occurred in the United States but had produced no practical developments.
  • No known chemical fuel would provide the reported range; the only possibility consistent with current theory was atomic energy.
  • Knowledge of flying disc-type aircraft was known four years ago (i.e., ~1945) and the Russians had been experimenting on an unknown type. They were developing nuclear energy with German scientists.
  • Reports indicated missiles approached the US from a northerly direction, cruised around, and returned over the North Pole — "indicating the strong possibility that they are coming from Russia." None had crashed on American soil; no parts had been recovered.
  • One foreign report described a collision between a transport and an unidentified missile over the ocean, resulting in complete disintegration of both.
  • This knowledge was being given "absolutely no dissemination" by the Air Force. Research at Wright Field and reports from foreign agents had informed Gasser's assessment.

Action: None. The above is for your information.

Part 10 — Kirtland AFB "Green Fireball" Report (Page 106)

Confidential Priority message from CO Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, to Chief of Staff USAF, January 31, 1949. (OSI-1-9C. DTG: 312145Z. CM-IN-321, 2 Feb 49.)

"Reference previous reports, subject: unknown, aerial phenomena, file number 24-8. Sighting of identical object reported at 2255Z 30 Jan 49 by approximately 30 people. Estimate at least 100 total sightings. AEC, AFSWP, 4th Army, local commanders perturbed by implications of phenomena. Sighting reported from El Paso, Albuquerque, Alamogordo, Roswell, Socorro, and other locations. All appear to be same object at different points in trajectory. Unless instructed to contrary this office will make all-out investigation with view to location of impact point if any. Request reply."

Part 11 — Oak Ridge Photo Analysis (Pages 112–113)

Letter: NEPA Project (Oak Ridge) to U.S. AEC, February 10, 1949. From: Colonel C. D. Gasser, USAF AMC Engineering Field Officer. To: Mr. G. J. Rathman, Chief, Investigation Section, Security Division, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Oak Ridge.

Re: photographs taken July 1947 by William Presley, 218 Illinois Avenue, Oak Ridge, of an "unidentified object that appeared to be flying over Oak Ridge."

Air Force Technical Intelligence Division at Wright-Patterson evaluated the negatives:

"When the negative, containing the sphere, is examined by strong incident light, it is noted that the emulsion is raised at that point above the normal level of the remaining emulsion. This indicates that either a drop of warm water or a drop of developer struck the film at this point and rolled down this negative and the succeeding negative."

The Air Force found further proof: when two negatives were placed side by side with edges aligned, the "trail" was continuous across both, confirming it rolled from one negative to the next. The trail also extended beyond the normal film format (fogged edge). Recommendation: declassify; advise Presley of the nature of the images. Copy sent to SA C. C. McSwain, FBI.

Part 12 — "Los Alamos Green Fireballs" — 4th Army Intelligence Report (Pages 115–121)

Director, FBI — from [SAC, San Antonio area], January 31 and March 22, 1949 (cross-filed Bureau file 65-58300).

Summary of weekly Intelligence Conferences involving G-2, ONI, OSI, and FBI in the Fourth Army Area:

  • Phenomena variously termed "flying discs," "flying saucers," and "balls of fire" — now officially termed "Unconventional Aircraft" under Project Grudge.
  • On February 16, 1949, a conference was held at Los Alamos, New Mexico concerning the "Green Fireball Phenomena" beginning December 5, 1948. Classified Secret; primary investigative responsibility assigned to U.S. Air Force Air Materiel Command, T-2.
  • Dr. Lincoln La Paz, University of New Mexico, presented the "Starvation Peak Incident" — a sighting he personally made — with six characteristics proving it was not a normal meteorite:
    1. Immediate bright light (no increase period) and constant intensity throughout.
    2. Yellow-green color, approximately 5200 Angstroms.
    3. Essentially horizontal path.
    4. Constant angular velocity throughout trajectory.
    5. Duration approximately two seconds.
    6. No accompanying noise.
  • Since December 5, 1948: more than ten incidents analogous to La Paz's description and some twenty others with minor deviations. All sightings confined to the Los Alamos, Las Vegas, and West Texas triangle.
  • G-2 noted: as of November 1, 1948, higher Military authorities had received information that the Air Force advised such sightings were periodic and another period was then imminent. On February 14, 1949, higher authorities stated it was believed the phenomena "ultimately would be found to have a natural explanation."
  • Sightings near Killeen Base (Camp Hood, Texas): flares observed approximately 1/2 mile north at ~7:30 p.m., March 6, 1949, and a second at 1:45 a.m., March 7, three miles away. Concluded to be similar to the Los Alamos/Sandia Base phenomena.
  • Observation summary: objects travel at 3–12 miles/second (mean ~27,000 mph), course East-West from northern quadrant, suggesting Russian origin. Flying level at 6–10 miles altitude, tangent to Earth. Not sighted between Russia and Los Alamos — only at the "target" of Los Alamos.
  • Spectrum analysis of one light: may be a copper compound of the type known in rocket experiments, completely disintegrating on explosion, leaving no debris. No debris had ever been found.
  • Night sightings: brilliant green lights similar to a green traffic signal or neon light; some reports begin/end with red or orange flash; other colors reported: red, white, blue-white, yellowish-green. Trailing lights: red.
  • Shape: in most cases, a round point of light with a defined area. One report: diamond shape; one: elongated trailing lights. Size compared to "one-fourth the diameter of the full moon" or "a basketball" with trailing lights "the size of a baseball."
  • Nine scientific reasons cited indicating phenomena are not meteorites.
  • Mrs. Madeline Gwynne Merchant (previously known to the Bureau as a correspondent about aerial missiles to AEC Los Alamos and Gen. Thomas T. Handy, 4th Army) had submitted "the only theory thus far known that has any credibility" — that the lights are manifestations of cosmic rays directed toward a specific point, which may interfere with ignition of motors and account for unexplained air crashes. Generally considered unreliable and possibly mentally unbalanced by military authorities.
  • Fourth Army protecting vital installations at Los Alamos, Sandia Base, and Camp Hood. Primary responsibility: USAF Air Materiel Command. G-2 and OSI actively engaged. FBI conducting no investigation.
  • There appeared "reason to believe that the above-mentioned phenomena may be connected with secret experiments being conducted by some U.S. Government Agency" as "the United States is farther advanced in guided missile development than any foreign power."

Part 13 — FBI Policy Letter to Field Offices (SAC Letter No. 38, March 25, 1949, Page 125)

Director Hoover — CONFIDENTIAL — to all SAC offices:

"For your confidential information, a reliable and confidential source has advised the Bureau that flying discs are believed to be man-made missiles rather than natural phenomenon. It has also been determined that for approximately the past four years the USSR has been engaged in experimentation on an unknown type of flying disc."

The Bureau was enclosing the Air Force memorandum "Unconventional Aircraft," dated February 15, 1949, for agents' use when taking voluntary statements. No active investigation to be conducted; Bureau Bulletin #57 (October 1, 1947) remained in effect. The enclosed memorandum described the type of information desired by Air Force Intelligence.

Part 14 — Mexico City Legal Attaché (Pages 130–131, April–May 1949)

The Mexico City Legal Attaché (John N. Speakes) had not received the "Unconventional Aircraft" pamphlet enclosed with SAC Letter #38. On April 5, 1949, he requested a copy. Director replied May 4, 1949, forwarding the enclosure by special messenger.

Part 15 — London Legal Attaché / British Coordination (Page 132, April 19, 1949)

The Legal Attaché, London, requested to be advised prior to furnishing any information to the British concerning the flying disc investigation. He also requested a copy of the investigation report (which his office had not received).

Part 16 — Fort Smith, Arkansas Sighting (Pages 133–136, April 1949)

Wade H. Harrison, Special Delivery Messenger, Fort Smith Post Office Department, Route 1, Box 293:

On April 16, 1949, 5:25 p.m., while delivering mail at the intersection of North Eleventh Street and Grand Avenue, Harrison stopped at a signal light, glanced up, and observed "a brilliant object moving in a southeastern direction" approximately 2 miles high. He exited his vehicle and pointed it out to other stopped drivers; was forced to move when the light changed and horns began honking. He watched the object travel approximately 3–4 miles until obscured by trees. Weather: clear, good visibility, no clouds near the object. No noise (though heavy traffic was present).

Harrison first thought it a reflector on an airplane but could not locate any plane. Later, he encountered an Army officer (major or lieutenant colonel) who stated: "I am glad other people are also reporting seeing flying objects." The officer's wife had observed a similar object the previous day (April 15), while traveling from Oklahoma City toward Fort Smith.

Harrison: 52 years old, considerable college training (including 2½ years at seminary in Westminster, Maryland). Eyesight described as "very good for a man of his age." "He was positive he had observed the object." A front-page article appeared in the Southwest-Times Record, Fort Smith, April 17, 1949, headlined: "Local Man Reports Seeing What He Believes Was 'Flying Disc.'"

Part 17 — Hoover and Walter Winchell (Pages 137, 151, 160, 162, 165, 173)

Multiple contacts between Walter Winchell and J. Edgar Hoover involved flying saucers:

  • April 20, 1949: The Director's office noted "The attached was sent to the Director by Walter Winchell" — a telegram from Robert Ripley (Believe It or Not) to Winchell: "HAVE THE ONLY AUTHENTIC JAPANESE FLYING SAUCER EVER RECOVERED IN THIS COUNTRY. BECAUSE OF YOUR INTEREST IN THE PRESENT DAY FLYING DISCS OF THE RUSSIANS WOULD LIKE VERY MUCH TO HAVE YOU JOIN ME ON THE BELIEVE IT OR NOT TELEVISION SHOW NEXT TUESDAY APRIL 19TH NBC NETWORK 930 TO 10PM AND GIVE YOUR COMMENTS ON FLYING DISC AND YOUR EXCLUSIVE KNOWLEDGE OF THIS LATEST RUSSIAN MENACE. REGARDS — RIPLEY." Winchell's annotation: "To J. Edgar Hoover. True?"

  • Investigation by SA Reynolds and SA Sanders with Army and Air Force: no information available in any arm of the Air Force to the effect that any flying saucer of any kind had been recovered in the United States. Colonel William E. Carpenter (OSI-USAF) directed inquiries through trusted individuals rather than usual channels to avoid a "stock answer," and still found nothing.

  • April 3, 1949 Winchell broadcast: San Antonio SAC reported that 4th Army authorities wanted Winchell interviewed about the source of his statements that "flying discs emanate from Russia." Director replied April 26, 1949: No interview with Walter Winchell will be made by the Bureau; the confidential information in SAC Letter #38 was obtained "in confidence from a colonel in the United States Air Materiel Command, who obtained his information from persons actively engaged in the investigation of this subject."

  • "Flyin' Saucer" toy letter (May 1949, pages 173–177): Warren R. Transcioni, 1767 Conejo Drive, San Luis Obispo, California, had written to Winchell (May 15, 1949) promoting his "FLYIN' SAUCER" acetate toy disc (marketed by Southern California Plastic Co., Glendale). Winchell forwarded to Hoover. The file includes the product brochure and a Pacific Plastics article (August 1948) describing how Fred Morrison had developed the design from childhood pie-tin experiments into a precision-engineered gyroscopic airfoil. Subsequently popularized as the Frisbee.

Part 18 — Los Angeles / Griffith Park Sighting (Pages 139–141, May 1949)

Hoover to Director of Special Investigations, Department of the Air Force, May 2, 1949:

A reliable confidential source advised that during early April 1949, C. A. Atkins, 4312 Los Feliz, Hollywood, California, reported that three employees of the Department of Recreation and Parks, City of Los Angeles, working in Griffith Park, had noticed objects in the sky appearing to be flying discs.

The full letter from Atkins to Walter Winchell (April 10, 1949) stated: Employee DeJarnett noticed "an object sailing through the sky" and two men working a half-mile away saw it simultaneously. "They checked with each other and arrived at the same conclusion. It was a Disc and they ran to a telephone to report the incident." When DeJarnett went to his men to confirm: "They had both seen it which proves beyond a question of a doubt that something of the Disc type was in the air." Atkins forwarded to Winchell "in a measure substantiates your statements." Letter marked "To Hoover" by Winchell.

Part 19 — Chiles-Whitted Encounter Coverage (Pages 179–186)

The file contains Atlanta Journal newspaper clippings (July 25–27, 1948) on the Chiles-Whitted encounter near Montgomery, Alabama:

  • July 25, 1948: Atlanta Journal article "Sky Devil-Ship Scares Pilots; Air Chief Wishes He Had One" by William Key. Eastern Air Lines pilots Captain C. S. Chiles (Atlanta) and Co-Pilot John B. Whitted (Hapeville) reported — near Montgomery — "a gigantic plane without wings, black against the night sky, streaking through the heavens at 5,000 feet altitude with a fiery comet's tail 25 to 50 feet in length. It had a 100-foot fuselage about four times the circumference of a B-29's, and two rows of brilliantly lighted square windows." No living soul was seen aboard. One passenger, C. L. McKelvie of Columbus, Ohio, was awake and saw "a continuous light speed past" his window but "no form of ship."

  • General George C. Kenney (Strategic Air Command): "I wish we did [have something like that]. I sure would have liked to see that Thing."

  • Boeing president William M. Allen: "I'm pretty sure it wasn't one of our planes."

  • Army Air Forces and U.S. Weather Bureau suggested it was a weather-observation balloon (10 feet diameter with square tinfoil boxes that reflect light) sent from Maxwell Field, Montgomery.

  • July 26, 1948: A "silver cylinder" seen at Asbury Park, N.J. ("way up in the air... like a blimp only blunt at both ends").

  • July 27, 1948: Multiple Atlanta area sightings at the same time period, described variously as: "a flying floor lamp — a fiery-red floor lamp," "a great ball of fire with a great long purple tail," "a bluish streak of light" (Naval air station attendant who watched it start climbing and bank away), and "a reddish-white ball of fire about the size of a cantaloupe with a tail on it." At least 15 Atlanta witnesses on that occasion.

Mrs. Noah Atkinson, Brookhaven, reported seeing the same type of object on July 5, approximately 200 feet above the treetops, moving at an estimated "500 miles an hour or faster": "It looked like the top part of a floor lamp, and it was the prettiest thing I ever saw."

The correspondent Mrs. Madeline Gwynne Merchant, 1515 9th Street, Wichita Falls, Texas (serial 62-83894-145), wrote August 5, 1948 to both the Atlanta Journal and the FBI Atlanta SAC, citing the Chiles-Whitted incident as "an important one" and noting she had already reported to Major Sidney Newburger of Los Alamos and General Handy.

Part 20 — Merced, California Sighting — Major William H. Parrott (Pages 157–159, May 1949)

SAC, Los Angeles to Director, May 13, 1949:

On May 5, 1949, reporter Mel Hodell of the Sun-Star newspaper, Merced, California, advised SA Marlin W. Johnson that Lt. Col. Stanley Jacobs, Intelligence Officer at Castle Air Force Base, had contacted the newspaper regarding flying disc reports in the Merced area.

Major William H. Parrott (USAF Reserve, Air Corps Reserve, 12-A Langdon Villa, Merced) had observed and reported the sighting. Parrott's account (verbatim from his statement):

"This object when first sighted, was moving very slowly in a west or northwesterly direction... It passed on beyond the house and maneuvered through an arc of turn to the left of about ninety degrees. The clicking sound was continuous throughout this turn, however, it became louder as it returned on its new heading of south or southwest... The clicking stopped when it was at its greatest intensity and appeared to come from a position directly over head. I was unable to see the object after the sound stopped."

The object appeared to have a dull, light-colored metal surface. Parrott noted: "The clicking sound... might be compared to beaters of a home mixer that were not properly meshed. No lights or flame were observed during the entire course with exception of the previously described reflections twice. No exhaust trail."

Parrott's dog was with him: "She had been romping with me on coming out of the house but without spoken word stopped and directed her attention on to the previously described area."

Parrott held pilot rating since August 1941 with approximately 2,200 hours flying time, considerable night-flying experience (WW2). The Intelligence Officer stated he had been unable to locate other witnesses through the area or local newspaper.

Part 21 — Radford and Virginia "Flying Cigar," May 1949 (Pages 187, 191–192)

SAC, Richmond, to Director, May 17, 1949 (serial 62-83894-178):

Enclosed two newspaper clippings about a flying disc sighted at Radford, Virginia, May 12, 1949.

Lynchburg Advance (May 13, 1949) — "These Flying Discs Are at It Again, Virginians Report": Object resembled "a long cigar, with a bright red nose and trailing smoke." Reports along an almost direct line through Tennessee and Virginia. In Roanoke: J. S. Mays and W. F. Mullins observed at ~8:00 p.m. Mays: "It looked like a streak of fire and appeared to be going almost straight up and was stepping on it." Then it appeared to level off and head eastward, resembling "a snake wiggling on water." Other reports from Kingsport, Tenn., Bristol, Pulaski, Christiansburg.

Radford News Journal (May 13, 1949) — "Did You See It? Well, What Was It?" by Wells Caldwell: Object appeared in the southwest ~8 p.m., moving eastward, black or dark with a light in the front. A Radford resident: "It looked a great deal like a rounded stick of wood which was burning in front. The object was trailed by either vapor or smoke." Mrs. Alfred Tolley's son (12, studying comets) reported: "a long black thing with a light on the front end and great long streaks of fire... for about 10 minutes." L. B. Graybeal, Christiansburg, former Air Force pilot, estimated altitude at 6,000 feet and heard "a roaring sound." Reports extended as far west as Kingsport, Tennessee, and as far east as Bedford, Virginia.

Part 22 — Philadelphia Ash Analysis (Pages 199–202, June 1949)

FBI Philadelphia — SA James L. Kirkland — Report dated June 15, 1949:

Frederic Marquardt had submitted ash residue to the Fire Marshal's Office, Philadelphia, claiming an object had entered the roof of his friend Woody Shaeffer's house at Lake Ariel, R.D., Wayne County, Pennsylvania (about 1 mile south of South Canaan, near Scranton). The fire had continued burning for 12 hours after water was first applied. Marquardt: "an object had entered the roof of the building, caused an explosion, and threw people out of bed." Fire had occurred about six months prior (circa fall 1948) during a storm.

Chemical analysis by Dr. Edward Burke, City Chemist: ash contained Magnesium, Aluminum, Iron, and Calcium in the form of silicates, sulphur, and carbonates. Marquardt (formerly employed by AEC at Oak Ridge until 1943, now at H. A. Kuljian Company, Philadelphia) theorized it was part of a military flare or a "flying saucer." The mass of ash had remained ignited for 12 hours; approximately one bushel of ash remained at the site. No explosion per Marquardt — the noise was "probably caused by the vacuum created as the missile or object struck the roof." Case closed at local level (no Bureau jurisdiction). The ash residue was forwarded to the FBI Laboratory "for any interest or study the Laboratory may desire to conduct relative to flares or in connection with the possibility of the presence of 'flying saucers.'"

Part 23 — FBI Special Agent Sighting, Canada (Page 203, July 1949)

FBI Omaha Urgent Teletype to Director, July 14, 1949:

"While on vacation recently at Lake of the Woods, near Kenora, Ontario, Canada, SA Clive G. Matthews observed unconventional aircraft resembling flying disc. He has furnished full information concerning same to U.S. Air Force Intelligence, Fort Crook, Nebraska, and same will not be reported to the Bureau unless advised to the contrary."

Part 24 — New Orleans Multiple Sightings (Pages 169, 205)

SAC, New Orleans, June 2, 1949:

Naval Intelligence, New Orleans, reported three flying disc sightings within ten days (May 18, 19, 23, 1949) in New Orleans. Discs were "saucer-shaped, size of an observation plane, traveling North, end over end." Navy suggested they might be weather balloons released over an hour before the sightings — but weather balloons would be out of sight quickly, making the suggestion questionable. All three incidents investigated by Army Intelligence.

SAC, New Orleans, July 21, 1949:

Several citizens in Alexandria, Louisiana, had recently seen flying discs; the local paper carried numerous articles. The Young Men's Business Club of Alexandria had proposed a "convention of flying saucer seers" as a publicity stunt. The AP picked up the story and an overwhelming volume of convention inquiries arrived nationally. Air Force representative from Barksdale Field, Louisiana, had inquired about attending as an observer. The Bureau noted concern that "such an enterprise may cause people to falsify that they have seen flying discs or flying saucers" in order to attend.

Part 25 — Project Blue Book / Air Force Summary Analysis (Pages 150, 387–388)

A newspaper clipping from the Dayton Journal-Herald (April 27, 1949), based on "hitherto unpublished reports assembled at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base," stated:

  • Air Force investigation had proven flying saucers "are not a joke. Neither are they a cause for alarm to the population."
  • Captain Thomas F. Mantell was the closest any airman had come to the mystery discs (January 7, 1948, over Fort Knox, Kentucky). His radio transmission, as quoted: "I'm closing in to take a good look. It looks metallic and of tremendous size. It's going up now as fast as I am. That's 360 miles an hour. I'm going up after it. At 20,000 feet, if I'm no closer, I'll abandon chase." His plane crashed a few minutes later; Mantell was killed.
  • A Wright-Patterson report then on file: 240 domestic and 30 foreign accounts investigated. 30% explainable as weather balloons or the like; 30% possibly explainable conventionally — leaving 40% unexplained.

Later pages (88) from a separate document (possibly a Blue Book-era analysis) stated:

"It is to be noted that the problem first came to the attention of the public in June 1947 when Kenneth Arnold reported seeing a formation of objects near Mt. Rainier, Washington. Since then, thousands of reports have been received... The project has gone through several phases and has had several different designations, including Project Sign, Project Grudge, and Project Blue Book. Throughout this period, the basic purpose of the project has remained the same: to determine whether unidentified flying objects represent a threat to the United States."

"There remains a hard core of cases which have defied all attempts at solution. These constitute a major unsolved problem, not only for the Air Force, but for all of science."

"If even a single one of these objects is of extraterrestrial origin, the scientific and perhaps security implications are of the highest order."

Part 26 — Sault Ste. Marie Incident and Missing F-89 (Page 82, November 1953)

Office Memo — A. H. Belmont to D. M. Ladd, November 25, 1953:

Cincinnati Office reported that on November 23, 1953, an unidentified object was sighted over Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Referred to the Air Defense Command. Belmont noted: "This incident occurred in the same general area as the disappearance on November 23, 1953, of an F-89 jet interceptor which was scrambled to intercept an unidentified radar blip near Sault Ste. Marie. The pilot and radar observer of the F-89 have not been found." The Air Defense Command was conducting a search. Bureau would be advised of further developments. No Bureau action warranted.

Part 27 — Rhodes Photographs, Phoenix (Pages 207–212, June–July 1949)

Phoenix SAC (W. A. Murphy) to Director, June 8, 1949 (serial 62-83894-183):

Reference to a September 9 [or 4], 1947 Phoenix letter concerning an interview with William Albert Rhodes, 4333 N. 14th Street, Phoenix, Arizona, who had sighted and photographed an object considered by the Air Force "of significance from a security standpoint." The interview had been conducted jointly by SA J. Bailey Brower (FBI) and George Fugate Jr. (A-2, Hamilton Field, California).

OSI representative Lynn C. Aldrich in Phoenix requested the complete interview details, to be forwarded to OSI San Francisco. Fugate, when questioned by his superiors, stated his recollection was "hazy on the matter." Apparently Rhodes was now requesting the Air Force return the photographs. The Phoenix office sought Bureau authorization to furnish a blind memorandum to Aldrich; the Bureau approved (memo: Lish Whitson to Fletcher, June 30, 1949, serial 62-83894-183).

Part 28 — Gilbert Sighting (Pages 86, undated)

A field report described an interview with Mr. Gilbert (full name not visible in legible portion):

  • First observed groups of saucer-type objects in the latter part of 1947.
  • Observed on seven separate occasions, with the last approximately two weeks before the interview.
  • Objects appeared in groups of three to four, in "V" formation.
  • Size at arm's length: approximately the size of a quarter.
  • Appeared round and flat, silver or aluminum-colored, reflecting sunlight.
  • Altitude: approximately 3,000–5,000 feet (Gilbert's estimate).
  • Direction: travel at high rate of speed from southeast to northeast.
  • No sound at any time.
  • Origin appeared to be approximately 25 miles from his property, from the east or east-northeast.
  • Several neighbors corroborated observations.
  • Gilbert did not drink and stated he was in good physical and mental health.

Part 29 — Captain Ruppelt Statement (Page 95, ca. 1952)

An undated document (circa January 28, 1952, Dayton, Ohio) is attributed to Captain Edward Ruppelt, certifying:

"I have carefully studied information presented to me, including the files of Project Blue Book, and have received briefings from Colonel Charles Kirkland, Colonel John O'Mara, and Major Allen Hynek, who has served as scientific consultant... In several cases, no satisfactory explanation was found. These incidents remain on record as unknowns in our files."

Signed: Edward J. Ruppelt, Captain, USAF, Chief, Aerial Phenomena Branch, Air Technical Intelligence Center.

Part 30 — Congressional Presentation Discussion (Page 96, undated)

A document (circa December 1949) references sending official documents to "Mr. George Valley and others in Mr. Hill's new staff," including "document No. 5" and supporting data (approximately 100 pages) concerning flying saucers. The author suggests:

"Mr. Valley has adequate knowledge of the subject to make an excellent presentation of the whole story before the proper Congressional Committee. I believe this is a factor which has not received the proper consideration: [the] probable psychological and sociological reactions of Congress and the public to a revelation that objects of unknown origin are being observed in the air space of the United States."

Part 31 — Mrs. Frank Gardner — Mexico City Connection (Pages 151–155, 164)

Mrs. Frank Gardner, 2310 W. Garvey, El Monte, California (letter dated April 29, 1949):

She described information told to her in 1943 or 1944 by "a certain woman" — a Mexican radio musician — about a "secret aircraft hideout and factory... in or under mountains near Mexico City, Mexico." The aircraft were reportedly "made of some metallic material that could not be recognized in the air only as an almost invisible form... close up they look a sort of glass... they were preparing them for special reason against the U.S." and "there were thousands of them... the rocket type."

Hoover forwarded a copy to the Director of Special Investigations, Department of the Air Force (May 10, 1949). Hoover replied to Gardner: "I have taken the liberty of sending a copy to the United States Air Force."

Part 32 — Kaye Lochrie Visit to FBI Headquarters (Page 167, May 1949)

On May 20, 1949, Miss Kaye Lochrie, 4900 N. Harding Avenue, Chicago, was referred from the Director's Office to SA F. J. Baumgardner. She stated that Roy Palmer, Managing Editor of Jeff Davis Publishing Company, had information regarding flying discs: his theory was that when people die, souls enter an invisible space; the souls of good and bad people are at war; and "flying discs are explosives used in this warfare."

Lochrie also stated she was under suspicion of espionage activities and wished to clear her name. FBI files showed no investigation of this individual. Baumgardner: "She impressed me as being somewhat mentally unbalanced."

Part 33 — Mrs. Henry Beston — Nobleboro, Maine (Pages 189, 194–198, May 1949)

Elizabeth G. Beston (Mrs. Henry Beston), Chimney Farm, Nobleboro, Maine, reported a sighting on May 14, 1949, at approximately 7:45 p.m., with a moderate southwest breeze:

At the zenith, which was clear, she noticed "a small object bright in the sunset... Its shape was angular, more like a piece of torn paper. This shape changed as the object floated north easterly before the wind; sometimes it appeared to have a bite taken out of it. Several times it reminded me of a hand." She called her husband, sister, and later a housekeeper and friend.

"As the object grew smaller it seemed to be on fire... it seemed to keep the same altitude but became small and dark, a line, perpendicular to the earth, always revolving but never losing its perpendicular position. With bird glasses it appeared in shape like a double balloon, trailing something below it. The lower balloon or body seemed a little larger." Her sister observed both balloons as pear-shaped with the trailing object below "separated into two 'legs' with heavier 'feet.'" Total observation time: approximately ten minutes. No sound.

Beston concluded it "was never oval, and never fast-moving and never appeared to be about to come down anywhere. We suppose it to have been some sort of weather balloon." Hoover's note: "Correspondent saw a small object in the sky near the end of the day which took various shapes and through glasses appeared like a double bloom trailing something below it. She believes it might be a flying disk. In view of her nebulous information and as it was very possibly a weather balloon no further action is deemed necessary."

Leitura (PT-BR)

Parte 1 — O "Disco Voador" de Lonnie Noack (Páginas 1, 54–63, 100–101, 114, 122–123)

Declaração Assinada de Noack (Página 1, ca. dezembro de 1947)

Lonnie Edward Noack apresentou declaração voluntária testemunhada por representantes do OSI de Ellington Field (Texas) e pelo escritório do FBI em Houston. Noack declarou ter voltado para casa por volta das 10h30 e imediatamente recebido ligação de Frank Reed, da editoria de cidade do Houston Post, que queria detalhes sobre "o disco." Noack se recusou a divulgar qualquer informação antes de consultar seu advogado, Mr. Blackwood. Como os contatos do FBI conhecidos por Blackwood não estavam mais localmente, Noack foi diretamente ao FBI e entregou o material.

Noack acrescentou: "Embora eu não possa descrever onde esse objeto se encontra, acredito que poderia voltar até lá, e tenho certeza de que Mr. Person e Mr. Smith também poderiam."

Dois associados foram identificados: Mr. Nathan Smith, Nathan Smith Electrical Company, 105 South Pasadena Avenue, South Pasadena, Califórnia; e Mr. R. C. Person, presidente da Vasco Electrical Manufacturing Company, 4116 Avalon Boulevard, Los Angeles, Califórnia. Dados técnicos das fotos: 16 quadros por segundo, abertura f6.3, filme Cine-Kodak Kodachrome.

Teletipo de Houston ao Diretor, 28 de dezembro de 1948 (Páginas 54–56, 60–62)

Enviado em 28-12-1948 às 13h12 CST. URGENTE. Para: Diretor e SACs de Cincinnati e Los Angeles. Atenção: Inspetor Howard Fletcher.

Assunto: Disco Voador — Lonnie Edward Noack, Queixoso.

Noack, mecânico da Humble Oil Company em Houston (residente na Rua Chicago, 2921), havia contatado o escritório em 27 de dezembro. Seu depoimento assinado descreveu:

  • Viagem de avião de Houston a Hollywood, 5 de dezembro.
  • No dia 6 contatou R. C. Person, 4116 Avalon Blvd., Los Angeles, que havia visto um objeto parecido com um disco voador em uma área desértica próxima a Hollywood.
  • Em 7 de dezembro, Noack, Person e Mr. e Mrs. Nathan Smith, 105 South Pasadena Ave., South Pasadena, viajaram de carro. Localizaram o disco a aproximadamente 150 milhas a nordeste de Pasadena, cerca de 20 milhas a nordeste de Lone Pine, no deserto próximo a um aeródromo particular de ~900 acres de propriedade de Person.
  • O disco foi fotografado com câmeras de filmagem e Speed-Graphic. O filme de Noack (8mm, marca Revere) foi revelado pela Eastman Kodak na Rua Los Palmas, Los Angeles. Noack o recebeu em Houston pelo correio em 23 de dezembro.

Descrição do objeto (página 2 do teletipo, página 62): "O filme mostra que o disco tem aproximadamente sete pés de diâmetro e cerca de dois pés de espessura no centro, com borda afunilada na aba. Ao centro e em ambos os lados há asas de quatro pés semelhantes às de avião convencional. Sem marcações, sem rádio, e aparentemente pousou em alta velocidade. Disco em estado comparativamente bom. As extremidades das asas possuíam um pequeno cilindro de alumínio, aparentemente para propulsão a jato. Um desses cilindros foi obtido por Noack como souvenir e está em posse do escritório."

Desfecho: Tudo Era um Papagaio Experimental

O relatório do agente W. Nathan Provinse (Los Angeles, 30 de março de 1949) concluiu: o objeto foi identificado como alvo de reboque/papagaio experimental abandonado após testes malsucedidos, positivamente identificado por Henry T. Rice, fabricante de Los Angeles, como parte do modelo de papagaio que ele havia financiado para Claude Leroy Wolfert. O Laboratório do FBI sequer chegou a examinar as amostras antes da identificação; os itens foram devolvidos ao SAC de Houston em fevereiro de 1949.

Parte 2 — Avistamento da Polícia de Portland, Setembro de 1947 (Página 4)

Referência: PD 62-1531.

O Chefe de Polícia Leon V. Jenkins observou um objeto prateado e arredondado a aproximadamente 10.000 pés de altitude, viajando de nordeste a sudoeste. Durante a observação, o objeto aparentou mudar de forma — tornando-se oval — e desapareceu em cerca de 30 segundos. O motorista, Oficial H. S. Raney, viu apenas um reflexo de sol. Robert W. Shaylor e o Oficial Donald W. Cowling (Distrito 14) varreram o céu mas não avistaram nada. O jornal The Oregonian de 12 de setembro de 1947 relatou o avistamento de Jenkins e recebeu várias ligações de testemunhas adicionais.

Parte 3 — Correspondência de Cidadãos, 1947–1948 (Páginas 9–27)

Esta série documenta as cartas não solicitadas enviadas ao FBI após a onda de discos do verão de 1947.

"Vovó Mc Caul" (Páginas 9–11, ca. outubro de 1947)

Carta manuscrita especulando que os discos voadores seriam dispositivos de sabotagem inimigas — "um novo objeto detonador de incêndio com retardo" — e relacionando-os com os incêndios florestais simultâneos em todo o país.

Mrs. Milo A. Durand — Elizabethtown, Nova York (Páginas 13–14)

Registrada em 15 de novembro de 1947 (serial 62-83894-135). Mrs. Durand perguntava se os discos voadores poderiam ter provocado incêndios florestais como "objetos incendiários caindo à terra" que, com a seca e o calor, poderiam ter causado chamas. Atendida pelo Stop Desk; sem ação.

Resposta do FBI — Joseph W. Omiline (Página 16, 8 de novembro de 1947)

Diretor John Edgar Hoover respondeu a Joseph W. Omiline, 6071 69th Avenue, Ridgewood, Brooklyn (serial 62-83894-136), que perguntara sobre discos voadores e investigações sobre russos: "As informações nos arquivos deste Bureau foram declaradas confidenciais e disponíveis apenas para uso oficial, e sou incapaz de prestar-lhe qualquer assistência."

Port Allegany, Pensilvânia — Jantar da Cruz Vermelha (Página 17, 18 de novembro de 1947)

Relato de que, após jantar da Cruz Vermelha em 6 de novembro de 1947, Mr. Joe Lippincott afirmou que os discos vistos pelo país "eram da Espanha" e que o governo em Washington havia confirmado isso mas mantinha em sigilo.

Marion Beuscher — Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin (Páginas 18–23, 5 de janeiro de 1948)

Beuscher encaminhou ao Hoover uma carta ameaçadora anônima recebida de Cincinnati:

"Na medida em que todos vocês insistem em falar e em contar sobre o que supostamente estão vendo, todos vocês devem ser avisados... essas coisas definitivamente não devem ser vistas. Por favor, não mencionem mais."

A própria Beuscher havia publicado carta na revista Amazing Stories (janeiro de 1948, p. 167) relatando que seu irmão avistou "cerca de sete a dez" discos voadores em 28 de junho de 1947 às 15h43, voando diretamente sobre a casa deles, "como faíscas, sem fazer nenhum barulho e indo aproximadamente para o sul."

O mesmo número da revista trazia carta de W. C. Hefferlin, afirmando que as aeronaves pertenciam a "um governo mundial de todos os povos oprimidos... direcionado pelos 'Três Antigos, Que Foram, Que São, Que Serão.' Quartel-general: 'Cidade do Arco-Íris', Antártida."

Beuscher escreveu ao Hoover pedindo investigação da carta ameaçadora, pois "sob essas circunstâncias, não me sinto inteiramente segura." Assunto tratado como questão de segurança interna.

N. J. Marshall — Covington, Ohio (Páginas 24–27, ca. janeiro–fevereiro de 1948)

Marshall teorizou que os discos usavam rastreadores circulares para guiar projéteis a alvos como o Lago Erie. O Hoover respondeu (5 de fevereiro de 1948, serial 62-83894-139): "Recebi sua carta de 29 de janeiro de 1948 e quero expressar meu apreço por ter-nos comunicado suas opiniões."

Parte 4 — Coordenação de Políticas FBI–Força Aérea (Páginas 29–35)

Em fevereiro de 1948, o SAC de São Francisco, Harry M. Kimball, encaminhou a Washington cópias de uma diretiva do Comando de Defesa Aérea (Mitchel AFB, 4 de fevereiro de 1948) que exigia coordenação de investigações sobre discos voadores com o FBI — em contradição com o Boletim do Bureau No. 57 (1º de outubro de 1947), que havia encerrado as investigações do FBI e transferido a responsabilidade à Força Aérea.

A diretiva (assinada por comando do General de Divisão Stratemeyer) determinava: investigações realizadas como "Casos de Incidentes de Contra-Inteligência"; relatórios fragmentários (Spot Reports) seguidos de Relatórios por Carta; casos de hoax deveriam ser reportados ao escritório local do FBI.

O memorando de V. P. Keay para Ladd (1º de março de 1948) confirmou que o agente S. W. Reynolds havia conversado com o Tenente-Coronel C. P. Martin (Divisão de Inteligência da Força Aérea), que confirmou que o Comando de Defesa Aérea de Mitchel Field simplesmente não sabia que o FBI havia encerrado suas investigações. Uma carta foi enviada a São Francisco confirmando que nenhuma mudança de política havia ocorrido.

Parte 5 — Senador Wherry e o Avistamento no Nebraska (Páginas 37–42)

O Senador Kenneth S. Wherry (Nebraska, Comitê de Dotações do Senado) encaminhou ao Hoover em 22 de março de 1948 a carta de seu eleitor Kenneth L. Frazier, de Benkelman, Nebraska.

Em 13 de março de 1948 às 14h30 (Hora da Montanha), Frazier observou um objeto estranho no céu a alta altitude e velocidade muito elevada, percebido primeiro pelo som ("como um trem estrondando ao longe a 10–12 milhas num dia quieto"). O objeto parecia inicialmente uma esteira de condensação, mas nunca mudou de forma nem de direção. "Como um trem aerodinâmico viajando a grande altitude a grande velocidade." Viajava de leste para oeste, aparentemente sobre Denver ou ligeiramente ao sul. O filho de Frazier também testemunhou. Hoover respondeu (24 de março de 1948) que a questão não estava dentro das atribuições do Bureau e que havia encaminhado cópia ao Secretário do Exército.

Parte 6 — Projeto "SIGN" — Análise de Solo (Páginas 46–53)

Em 9 de setembro de 1948, o Quartel-General do Air Materiel Command (Wright-Patterson AFB, assinado pelo Coronel W. R. Clingerman, Chefe da Divisão de Inteligência Técnica) encaminhou ao Laboratório do FBI uma amostra de solo retirada de uma depressão "supostamente causada por um 'disco voador' descrito como tendo aproximadamente dois pés de diâmetro e um pé de espessura" que "supostamente pousou suavemente, saltou a uma altura de cerca de vinte pés e continuou sua jornada." O Laboratório (examinador JEVONS, petrografia-geologia) realizou a análise e devolveu a amostra em 18 de outubro de 1948 via correio registrado.

Parte 7 — Inteligência do Coronel Gasser (Páginas 103–105)

O Coronel C. D. Gasser, Engenheiro Residente do Air Materiel Command no Centro de Pesquisa NEPA (Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft) de Oak Ridge, Tennessee, forneceu confidencialmente ao FBI (memorando de Ladd ao Diretor, 24 de janeiro de 1949):

  • A Inteligência da Força Aérea acreditava que os discos voadores eram mísseis de fabricação humana, não fenômenos naturais. Pesquisas extensas eram realizadas em Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio.
  • O único combustível compatível com a autonomia de voo relatada seria a energia atômica.
  • Havia quatro anos (por volta de 1945) já se sabia que os russos estavam experimentando algum tipo de disco voador, com cientistas alemães.
  • Os relatórios indicavam que os objetos se aproximavam dos EUA pela direção norte, cruzavam o país e retornavam pelo Polo Norte — "indicando a forte possibilidade de que estejam vindo da Rússia." Nenhum havia caído em solo americano; nenhuma peça havia sido recuperada.
  • Um relatório da Tchecoslováquia descrevia a colisão entre um avião de transporte e um míssil não identificado sobre o oceano, com desintegração total de ambos.

Ação: Nenhuma. O acima exposto é para sua informação.

Parte 8 — "Bolas de Fogo Verdes" de Los Alamos (Páginas 106, 115–121)

Mensagem confidencial de urgência do CO Kirtland AFB (Novo México), 31 de janeiro de 1949:

"Referência a relatórios anteriores, assunto: fenômenos aéreos desconhecidos, número de arquivo 24-8. Avistamento do mesmo objeto às 22h55Z de 30 jan 49 por aproximadamente 30 pessoas. Estima-se no mínimo 100 avistamentos totais. AEC, AFSWP, 4ª Exército, comandantes locais perturbados pelas implicações dos fenômenos. Avistamentos relatados de El Paso, Albuquerque, Alamogordo, Roswell, Socorro e outros locais."

Relatório da Conferência de Inteligência de 4ª Exército (San Antonio SAC, 22 de março de 1949):

  • Fenômenos agora oficialmente denominados "Aeronaves Não Convencionais" sob o Projeto Grudge.
  • Em 16 de fevereiro de 1949, conferência em Los Alamos discutiu o "Fenômeno das Bolas de Fogo Verdes" iniciado em 5 de dezembro de 1948. Classificado como Secreto.
  • Dr. Lincoln La Paz, Universidade do Novo México, descreveu o "Incidente do Pico Starvation" — avistamento pessoal — com seis características provando que não era meteorito normal: (1) luz inicial brilhante de intensidade constante; (2) cor verde-amarela ~5200 Angstroms; (3) trajetória essencialmente horizontal; (4) velocidade angular constante; (5) duração ~2 segundos; (6) sem ruído.
  • Desde 5 de dezembro de 1948: mais de dez incidentes análogos; todos confinados ao triângulo Los Alamos, Las Vegas e oeste do Texas.
  • Velocidade dos objetos: 3–12 milhas/segundo (média ~27.000 mph); altitude: 6–10 milhas; curso leste-oeste do quadrante norte.
  • Análise espectral de uma das luzes sugeria composto de cobre do tipo usado em experimentos de foguetes, que se desintegra completamente na explosão sem deixar destroços. Nenhum destroço jamais havia sido encontrado.
  • Avistamentos na área de Camp Hood (Texas): em 6 e 7 de março de 1949.
  • Mrs. Madeline Gwynne Merchant havia submetido às autoridades militares "a única teoria até agora conhecida que tem qualquer credibilidade" — que as luzes são manifestações de raios cósmicos dirigidos para um ponto específico, podendo interferir no funcionamento de motores de aeronaves.

Parte 9 — Carta SAC No. 38 e Políticas de 1949 (Páginas 118, 125, 130)

Em 25 de março de 1949, o Diretor Hoover enviou a todos os SACs o SAC Letter No. 38 (CONFIDENCIAL):

"Para sua informação confidencial, uma fonte confiável e sigilosa assessorou o Bureau de que os discos voadores são acreditados serem mísseis de fabricação humana e não fenômeno natural. Também foi determinado que por aproximadamente os últimos quatro anos, a URSS vem realizando experimentos com um tipo desconhecido de disco voador."

O Bureau distribuiu o memorando da Força Aérea "Aeronaves Não Convencionais" (15 de fevereiro de 1949) para orientar agentes ao receber relatos voluntários. Nenhuma investigação ativa deveria ser conduzida. O Adido Legal da Cidade do México e o Adido Legal de Londres solicitaram cópias do memorando que não haviam recebido.

Parte 10 — Avistamento em Fort Smith, Arkansas (Páginas 133–136, abril de 1949)

Wade H. Harrison, carteiro de entrega especial, Fort Smith (Route 1, Box 293):

Em 16 de abril de 1949 às 17h25, na esquina da Rua North Eleventh com a Grand Avenue, Harrison avistou "um objeto brilhante movendo-se em direção sudeste" a aproximadamente 2 milhas de altitude. Saiu do carro, apontou o objeto para outros motoristas; forçado a continuar com a troca do semáforo. Acompanhou o objeto por cerca de 3 a 4 milhas até ser obscurecido pelas árvores. Sem ruído. Descreveu como reflexo de espelho.

Um oficial do Exército (major ou tenente-coronel) encontrado por Harrison logo depois comentou: "Fico feliz que outras pessoas também estejam relatando ver objetos voadores." A esposa do oficial havia visto objeto similar na véspera, viajando de Oklahoma City para Fort Smith.

O caso foi noticiado em primeira página do Southwest-Times Record de Fort Smith em 17 de abril de 1949: "Morador Local Relata Ter Visto o Que Acredita Ser um 'Disco Voador.'"

Parte 11 — Hoover e Walter Winchell (Páginas 137, 151, 160, 162, 165)

Múltiplos contatos entre o apresentador Walter Winchell e J. Edgar Hoover envolveram discos voadores:

  • Abril de 1949: Winchell encaminhou ao Hoover telegrama de Robert Ripley (Acredite Se Quiser): "TENHO O ÚNICO DISCO VOADOR JAPONÊS AUTÊNTICO JAMAIS RECUPERADO NESTE PAÍS. DEVIDO AO SEU INTERESSE NOS ATUAIS DISCOS VOADORES DOS RUSSOS GOSTARIA MUITO QUE O SENHOR ME ACOMPANHASSE NO SHOW DE TELEVISÃO BELIEVE IT OR NOT NA PRÓXIMA TERÇA PELA NBC..." Winchell anotou: "Para J. Edgar Hoover. Verdade?"

    Investigação: o Coronel William E. Carpenter (OSI-USAF) consultou fontes de confiança (evitando canais oficiais para não obter "resposta padrão") e concluiu que nenhum tipo de disco voador havia sido recuperado nos Estados Unidos.

  • Broadcast de Winchell em 3 de abril de 1949 (afirmando que discos voadores provinham da Rússia): o SAC de San Antonio solicitou que Winchell fosse entrevistado para revelar sua fonte. O Diretor respondeu (26 de abril): Nenhuma entrevista com Walter Winchell seria realizada. A informação do SAC Letter No. 38 era confidencial e havia sido obtida de um coronel do Air Materiel Command.

Parte 12 — Avistamento em Griffith Park, Los Angeles (Páginas 139–141, maio de 1949)

Hoover escreveu ao Diretor de Investigações Especiais da Força Aérea (2 de maio de 1949) relatando que o Sr. C. A. Atkins, 4312 Los Feliz, Hollywood, comunicara que três funcionários do Departamento de Recreação e Parques de Los Angeles, trabalhando no Parque Griffith, avistaram objetos parecidos com discos voadores. Um deles, DeJarnett, viu primeiro; dois outros trabalhando a meia milha de distância confirmaram o avistamento independentemente. "Isso prova além de qualquer dúvida que algo do tipo disco estava no ar." Winchell havia encaminhado a carta ao Hoover com a pergunta: "True?"

Parte 13 — Encontro Chiles-Whitted (Páginas 179–186, julho de 1948)

Recortes do Atlanta Journal (25–27 de julho de 1948) cobriram o encontro dos pilotos da Eastern Air Lines Capitão C. S. Chiles e Co-Piloto John B. Whitted perto de Montgomery, Alabama:

O objeto descrito como "um avião gigantesco sem asas, negro contra o céu noturno, rasgando os céus a 1.500 metros de altitude com uma cauda de cometa de 7 a 15 metros de comprimento... fuselagem de 30 metros, com duas fileiras de janelas quadradas brilhantemente iluminadas." Sem tripulação visível. O General George C. Kenney (Comando Aéreo Estratégico): "Queria tê-la visto... Queria muito."

Vários outros avistamentos em Atlanta nos dias seguintes descreviam: "uma luminária vermelha voando", "uma grande bola de fogo com uma longa cauda roxa", "uma faixa de luz azulada" (avistada por tripulante da base naval que viu o objeto subir e virar). Uma testemunha que havia visto o Cometa Halley declarou: "Era completamente diferente."

Mrs. Madeline Gwynne Merchant, Wichita Falls, Texas, escreveu em 5 de agosto de 1948 ao Atlanta Journal e ao SAC do FBI em Atlanta, citando o incidente Chiles-Whitted como "um dos importantes" e afirmando já ter enviado relatórios ao Major Sidney Newburger de Los Alamos e ao General Thomas T. Handy (Comandante da 4ª Exército dos EUA).

Parte 14 — Major Parrott — Avistamento em Merced, Califórnia (Páginas 157–159, maio de 1949)

O Major William H. Parrott (Reserva Ativa da USAF, 12-A Langdon Villa, Merced, ~2.200 horas de voo, piloto desde agosto de 1941) relatou ao Oficial de Inteligência da Base Aérea Castle:

O objeto voava lentamente na direção oeste ou noroeste e então realizou "uma curva de cerca de noventa graus à esquerda." Um "clique contínuo" semelhante ao "de batedores de uma batedeira doméstica mal encaixados" acompanhou o voo — sem assobio, sem rugido. O som ficou mais forte quando o objeto retornou e cessou quando estava aparentemente diretamente sobre a cabeça de Parrott. Superfície do objeto: metal fosco de cor clara. Sem luzes, sem rastro de escape. O cão de Parrott parou de brincar e ficou com atenção dirigida ao mesmo setor durante todo o episódio.

Parte 15 — "Charuto Voador" na Virgínia, Maio de 1949 (Páginas 187, 191–192)

O SAC de Richmond encaminhou ao Diretor recortes sobre objeto avistado em Radford, Virgínia, em 12 de maio de 1949:

Descrito como "um longo charuto, com nariz vermelho brilhante e rastro de fumaça." Relatos ao longo de uma linha quase direta por Tennessee e Virgínia. Em Roanoke: J. S. Mays e W. F. Mullins viram às ~20h. Mays: "Parecia uma chama de fogo e parecia ir quase reto para cima... acelerando." O objeto então nivelou e seguiu para leste "como uma cobra se mexendo na água." Em Radford, uma testemunha descreveu "um pedaço comprido de madeira arredondada que estava queimando na frente." Mrs. James D. Heinline: "parecia um longo charuto negro que estava em chamas... às vezes parecia um avião muito, muito distante... havia uma espécie de fumaça avermelhada ao redor." L. B. Graybeal, ex-piloto da Força Aérea, estimou altitude de 6.000 pés e relatou "um som de estrondo." Avistamentos de Kingsport, Tennessee, a Bedford, Virgínia.

Parte 16 — Análise de Cinzas de Scranton (Páginas 199–202, junho de 1949)

Frederic Marquardt submeteu cinzas ao Departamento do Bombeiro de Filadélfia, alegando que um objeto havia penetrado no telhado da casa de Woody Shaeffer, em Lake Ariel, Condado de Wayne, Pensilvânia, causando incêndio que queimou durante 12 horas mesmo após a aplicação de água. Análise química pelo Dr. Edward Burke (Químico Municipal): cinzas continham Magnésio, Alumínio, Ferro e Cálcio na forma de silicatos, enxofre e carbonatos. Marquardt (ex-funcionário da AEC em Oak Ridge) acreditava ser parte de um sinalizador militar ou um "disco voador." O material foi encaminhado ao Laboratório do FBI para análise de possíveis relações com foguetes ou discos voadores. Caso encerrado localmente.

Parte 17 — Agente do FBI Avista Disco no Canadá (Página 203, julho de 1949)

Teletipo Urgente do FBI Omaha ao Diretor, 14 de julho de 1949:

"Durante férias recentes no Lago of the Woods, próximo a Kenora, Ontário, Canadá, o Agente Especial Clive G. Matthews observou aeronave não convencional semelhante a disco voador. Ele forneceu informações completas à Inteligência da Força Aérea dos EUA, Fort Crook, Nebraska, e o Bureau não será notificado a menos que se instrua o contrário."

Parte 18 — Avistamentos em Nova Orleans (Páginas 169, 205)

SAC, Nova Orleans, 2 de junho de 1949: A Inteligência Naval de Nova Orleans relatou três avistamentos de discos voadores em dez dias (18, 19 e 23 de maio de 1949). Os discos tinham "formato de pires, tamanho de um avião de observação, viajando para o norte, de ponta a ponta." A Marinha sugeriu balões meteorológicos, mas reconheceu que esses seriam rapidamente invisíveis. Todos os três incidentes investigados pela Inteligência do Exército.

SAC, Nova Orleans, 21 de julho de 1949: Cidadãos de Alexandria, Louisiana, relataram múltiplos avistamentos, e o Clube de Negócios Jovens da cidade propôs um "congresso de observadores de discos voadores" que gerou avalanche de consultas nacionais, inclusive da Base Aérea Barksdale (Força Aérea), interessada em ter um observador no evento. O Bureau alertou que tal evento poderia "causar falsificações de avistamentos" para fins de participação.

Parte 19 — Capitão Ruppelt e o Projeto Blue Book (Página 95, ca. 1952)

Declaração do Capitão Edward J. Ruppelt, Chefe da Divisão de Fenômenos Aéreos, Air Technical Intelligence Center, Dayton, Ohio (~28 de janeiro de 1952):

"Estudei cuidadosamente as informações apresentadas a mim, incluindo os arquivos do Projeto Blue Book, e recebi briefings do Coronel Charles Kirkland, Coronel John O'Mara e do Major Allen Hynek, consultor científico... Em vários casos, nenhuma explicação satisfatória foi encontrada. Esses incidentes permanecem registrados como desconhecidos em nossos arquivos."

Um documento separado (página 88), provavelmente de análise do Projeto Blue Book, afirmou:

"Permanece um núcleo duro de casos que resistiu a todas as tentativas de solução. Esses constituem um problema não resolvido importante, não apenas para a Força Aérea, mas para toda a ciência."

"Se mesmo um único desses objetos for de origem extraterrestre, as implicações científicas e talvez de segurança são da mais alta ordem."

Parte 20 — Desaparecimento do F-89 sobre Sault Ste. Marie (Página 82, novembro de 1953)

Memorando de A. H. Belmont para D. M. Ladd, 25 de novembro de 1953:

O escritório de Cincinnati relatou que em 23 de novembro de 1953, um objeto não identificado foi avistado sobre Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Referido ao Comando de Defesa Aérea. Belmont anotou: "Este incidente ocorreu na mesma área geral do desaparecimento em 23 de novembro de 1953 de um interceptador F-89 que foi scrambled para interceptar um eco de radar não identificado perto de Sault Ste. Marie. O piloto e o observador de radar do F-89 não foram encontrados." O Comando de Defesa Aérea conduzia buscas. Nenhuma ação do Bureau considerada necessária.

Parte 21 — Fotografias de William Albert Rhodes, Phoenix (Páginas 207–212, 1949)

Em julho de 1947, William Albert Rhodes, 4333 N. 14th Street, Phoenix, Arizona, havia sido entrevistado conjuntamente pelo agente do FBI J. Bailey Brower e pelo representante A-2 (Inteligência Aérea) George Fugate Jr., de Hamilton Field, California, sobre um objeto que ele havia avistado e fotografado. As fotografias foram consideradas pela Força Aérea "de significado do ponto de vista da segurança."

Em junho de 1949, o representante OSI Lynn C. Aldrich (Phoenix) pediu detalhes completos para San Francisco. Fugate, quando questionado por seus superiores, disse que sua memória estava "nebulosa." Ao que parece, Rhodes estava pedindo de volta as fotografias à Força Aérea. O Bureau autorizou o escritório do Phoenix a fornecer ao OSI um memorando cego com os detalhes da entrevista original.

Parte 22 — Avistamento de Mr. Gilbert (Página 86, data não especificada)

Mr. Gilbert (identidade completa não preservada) relatou ao FBI:

  • Primeiro avistou grupos de objetos em fins de 1947.
  • Observou em sete ocasiões separadas, com o último ~duas semanas antes da entrevista.
  • Grupos de três ou quatro objetos em formação "V".
  • Tamanho a braço estendido: tamanho de uma moeda de 25 centavos americanos.
  • Forma: redonda e plana; cor prata ou alumínio, refletindo a luz solar.
  • Altitude estimada: 3.000–5.000 pés.
  • Viajavam a alta velocidade de sudeste para nordeste.
  • Sem ruído em nenhum momento.
  • Vizinhos corroboraram os avistamentos.
  • Não bebia álcool e declarava estar em boa saúde física e mental.

Parte 23 — Discussão sobre Apresentação ao Congresso (Página 96, ca. dezembro de 1949)

Documento anônimo sugeria que Mr. George Valley estava preparado para apresentar o tema ao Congresso, e que qualquer apresentador deveria ser "totalmente briefado não apenas sobre os dados factuais, mas também sobre as reações psicológicas e sociológicas prováveis do Congresso e do público a uma revelação de que objetos de origem desconhecida estão sendo observados no espaço aéreo dos Estados Unidos."

Parte 24 — Mrs. Frank Gardner — Conexão com o México (Páginas 151–155, 164)

Mrs. Frank Gardner, El Monte, Califórnia (carta de 29 de abril de 1949):

Relatou informações que lhe foram contadas em 1943 ou 1944 por "uma certa mulher" — uma radioatriz mexicana — sobre uma "fábrica e esconderijo secreto de aeronaves... em ou sob montanhas perto da Cidade do México, México." As aeronaves seriam feitas de material metálico praticamente invisível no ar; "por dentro se vê para fora, mas quem olha de fora não consegue ver dentro... de perto parecem vidro... e estavam preparando-as para uso especial contra os EUA." E "havia milhares delas... do tipo foguete." Hoover encaminhou cópia à Força Aérea.

Fim do documento.