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Office Memorandum • UNITED sTATEs GOVERNMENT
TO
Director, FBI
DATE: June 2, 1949
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SAC, New Orleans
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SUBJECT:
C FLYING DISCS
Re SAC Letter 38, dated Jfarch 25, 1949 entitled as above.
The Bureau is advised that through the Office of Naval Intellie;ence,
NeT1 Orleans, Louisiana, this office has been advised that within the past ten
days thr ee sightings of flying disc·s have been reported in the City of New Or­
leans.
The infornation seems to be that the single discs Yrere i n str aight flight
and traveling i n a general direction of North, in late afternoon,about the size
of an observation plane , but the shape of a saucer.
The Navy stated that two
witnesses have advised that the object was traveling end over end; that weather
conditions were good; that sightings ,·rere made outdoors by persons who did not
wear glasses; that the dates Yrere I.lay 18, 19 and 23, 1949.
The Navy states
that it was possible these objects wer e weather balloons, but that these are
used from only one airport, released over an hour befor e the times of sighting
and would generally be out of sight in a few minutes.
The above is being furnished the Bureau for futur e reference since
the Navy has informed that all three instances were investigated by the Army
Intelligence•
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