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from various persons and organizations throughout the United States,
he said.
On July 28, 1950, HIXENBAUGH telephonically communicated with the
Louisville Division stating that ne had been advised that a repre-
sentative of one of the Army Intelligence Agencies would be in Louis-
ville on Saturday, July 29, 1950, to view the film.
He expressed fear
that the persons who might be contacting him might be unauthorized in-
dividuals and asked if he could bring the film to the FBI office for
clearance .
HIXENa'.UGHwas advised that the Bureau did not clear em-
ployees of other agencies and if he had doubt as to their authenticity
he should check with the agency they professed to represent .
HIXEN-
BAUGH was advised that in the event they were not representatives of
the agency they professed to represent, the information should b~ fur-
nished this office and appropriate action would be taken under the Im-
personation Statute .
On July 29, 1950, ROBERT STE.IYAU, 1608 South Second Street, Louisville,
staff photo6rapher for the Courier-Journal, a newspaper of general cir-
culation published in Louisville, KentucKy, personally called at the
Louisville Office .
STEPJAU stated that he and WILLIAM DAVIS, who is
in charge of photographers for both the Courier-Journal and Louisville
Times, doubted the authenticity of the photographs taken by HIXENBAUGH
and went on to state that approximately two years ago lITXENBA.OGH took
what he claimed was a night photograph of a "flying disk". The photo-
graph was published at that time in the Louisville Times and showed a
streak of light across the heavens.
STEINAU said that he and D!VIS
subsequently were advised by a friend of HIXENBAUGH that the picture
was "a fraud".
The friend related that HIXENBAUGH was lying on his
back on the .ground with his camera pointing toward the sky when the
friend flipped one or more lighted matches across the focal plane of
the camera.
STEINAU said that HIXENBAUG:; enjoys a poor reputation among other staff
photographers of the Courier- Journal and Louisville Times and he believes
HIXENBAUGH perpetrated both the original hoax concerning the flying disk
and this later "hoax" concerning the flying saucer to attract attention
to himself.
STEINAU produced a print made from tliree frames of the orig-
inal motion picture negative submitted by HIXE}!BAUGH for television use.
He also furnished an enlargement of one of the frames.
He called atten-
tion to the fact that the trees appearing in the photograph and the air-
plane appearing in the center background both are out of focus and appear
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