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Office M emorandum • UNITED S11iLL:.u -o-OVERNMENT
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Director, FBI
SAC, Knoxville
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"FLYING SAUCEBS" Ol3SERVED OVER OAK RIDGE AREA
INTERNAL SECURITY - X
DATE: February 18, 1949
Reference is made to Knoxville letter to the Director dated January 10~
1949, entitled as above.
There is being :forwarded for the Bureau's information a cop~ of ~-:=-==j
a letter :from Colonel C. D. GASSER, USAF, AMC Engineering Field
Officer, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to Mr. G. J. RATHMAN, Security
Division, U. s. Atomic Energy Commission, Oak Ridge. This letter
is self explanatory and reveals that the photographs forwarded
with referenced letter are the result of accident or purposeful
hoax and are not actually photographs of a "f l:.:1t:1 saucer".
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Colonel GASSER personally advisec1: that whi l e the ·photographs
are not real, his statements m£ '1<' conc'3r.1i.ng the ext otence of
:f'l.y1ng saucers and the opinions '}Y.p:rtc l ~ad by h1L1 nevertheless
stand as previously stated.
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