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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
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THIS CASE ORIGINATED AT
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HOUSTON
REPORT MADE AT
DATE WHEN r,tAD.lit
PERIOD FOR
WHICH MADE
LOS ANGELES
12/28 . 29; 1/7,$
3/30/49
TITLE ..t'LYING DISC~
1011~"IE EDWA..W1
CK, com9lainant;
Houston, Texas,
ecember 27, 1948
SYN OPSIS OF FACTS:
Object described by complainant as possible flying disc
determined to be a model tow target or kite which had
been ab3ndoned after unsuccessful tests.
Portions of
target positively identif'ied by HENRY T. RICE, L.A.
manufacturer and erstwhile financial backer as being
part of the model target or kite.
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REFEREhCE :
Teletype f r om Houston to Director dated 12/28/!8.
Teletype from Los Angeles to Lirector dated 12/2u/48.
Teletype f r om Los Angel es to Virector dated 12/29/48.
DETAILS:
This investigation is predicated upon the receipt of referenced
teletype from the Houston Office advising that LONNIE EIJ?ARD NOACK had located
an object in the desert near Helendale, California, r esembling a flying disc.
This object , described as a flying disc, had been l ocated by NOACK, R. C.
PERSON and :t.r. and l rs . NATHAN SMITH of Soutli Pasadena, Califori1ia, approxi­
mately one hundred and fifty miles northeast of Pasadena or about twenty
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miles from Lone Pine, CaliJ.'ornia.
Special Agent ElJi!ARD OLSEN detemined that R. C. PERSON, Vasco
tanufacturing Company, was traveling in Arizona and not available for interview.
APPROVED AN
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