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STANDARD FORM NO. ~
Office Memorandum • UNITED sTATEs GovERNMENT
TO
DIRECTOR, ?BI
DATE:Septernber 6, 1949
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SAC, INDI.Al~APO:i:..IS
SUBJECT:( 1i'LYii~G SAUCERS
SECURITY !.iATTER - X
ELBSRT -: • ~ARRIS of OSI, Benjamin Harrison Air Base called
at this office recently to ascertain if there was any current
inform:-tion on "fl:-ing saucers".
He state~that he had been in-
structed recently to contact Dr. RICHA..1ID K. PARRISH of Decatur,
Indiana, with r eference to a flying saucer e allegedly observed
in the vicinity of Lake of the ','foods, Canada, on or about July 1,
1949.
An FBI Agent by the name of :mcALF of the Omaha office
was alleged to have seen the same saucer.
ii'hen FARRIS conversed ,·1ith Dr. PA1RISH, the Dr . told him
that when he returned from Canada, he found himself in the midst
of a polio epidemic and that as a result he 1--ad read as much
literature as possible with respect to polio, its symptoms,
diagnosis, etc.
Dr . PAR.~SH told FARRIS that in his opinion,
the cases ·,·,hi.ch were thought to be polio in the vici nity of
Indiana, were not polio, but possibly the result of
aniwn poisoning and that he felt the presence of flying saucers
D catur,
ad airect bearing on the polio epidemic .
Dr . PARRISH pointed
t that flying saucer s were observed in the Carolina' s in 1948
and there was a polio epidemic in the vicinity at that time.
FARRIS stated he had consulted one of the physicians at the
Benjamin Harrison Air Base and had also checked the records with
reference to allesations concerning the si~hting of flying saucers
and had done a little research nith respect to correlating the
presence of flying saucers and any polio epidemic.
He further
stated that he ,;·ias reporti!lg the matter to the proper Air Force
authorities, 'i'lright Field, Dayton, Ohio.
It has also come to the attention of this office that FA.~S
ma.de inquiry of the Indiana University 1:edical School, Indianapolis,
Indiana, where the doctors treated the entire matt er as a big joke.
FARrlIS also stated that Dr. PAmllSH had heard 1·1hile in Canada
that there had been some rath(.r strange events somerihere in the
interior with respect to finding ,•,hat might have been remains of
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flying saucers.
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The fore :oing is furnis.hed for the information of the Bureau.
This office is taking no action in the matter.
H.\K/fjd
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