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UNITED STA'i' ES GOVERNMENT \
SUBJECT:
Director, FBI
SAC, Louisville
ALF E. HIXENBAUGH' s Photographs
of"-1:l ying Saucers;
INFORMATION CONCERNING
DATE:
8/2/50
On Jwte 28, 1950, the Louisville Times , a newspaper of general
circulation published at Louisville, Kentucky, carried a two
column cut showing three frames of a. movie camera. film of wha.t
pur ported to be a moving picture of a. flying saucer.
'fhe photo-
gr aphs , taken by ALF (AL) HIXE113AUGH, Times staff photographer,
were taken, HIXENBAUGH sa.id, on a 16 rnm magazine - loadi ng movi e
camera.
The news articl e, accompanying the photographs , stated HIXENBAUGH
took 50 feet of film in which "the bright flyi ng object shows
clearly . "
The photographer, according to the article , was a.t
Longest and Everett Avenues near his home, 2205 Longest , at 4 : 15
p. m., June 27, 1950, on his way to take some moving pictures of
birds .
The articl e relates tha.t HIXENBAUGH "suddenly hear d the
roa.r of a big plane -- a twin-motor ed DC- 3 - - and glanced over-
head.
At first he thought it was a. jet plane then he l ooked to
the west of the plant, which was flying southwest toward Standi-
ford Field -- and saw the l arge disk.
It had a slight corona.
around it and seemed to be lower tha.n the plane ."
According to HIXENBAUGH, the object appeared "motionless for about
ten seconds ... then it began to get smal l er, finally vanishing into
the west . 11
The article notes that while the "saucer" appeared on
all the film HIXENBAUGH took, the airplane was out of the picture
field quickly, appear ing on only about 10 feet .
HIXENBAUGH, accord-
ing to the article , advised military officers at Godman Field who
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in turn notified flight headquarters at , right- Patterson Field.
Ji copy of the newspaper article and photographs a.re being forwarded
to the Bureau as enclosures .
A subsequent newspaper article stated that representatives of the
military would fly to Louisville to examine the films.
In addition
~1?R being printed in the Louisvi lle Times, the movie film taken by
i¥fXENBAUGH was carried on a national television network a.nd received
national collllllent 'from r,ALTER .. INCHELL ,
ITTXEPBAUGH has received tele-
phonic and wri~ten queries concerning subject matter of the picture
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