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p-ANOA.RD rOR'M NO. 64
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, .Offii:e Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
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DATE: March 28, 1950
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SUBJECTq
LYING SAUCERS
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Reference is made to your inquiry on the attached routing slip:
"Just what are the facts re 'flying saucers •?
A short
memo as to whether it is true or just what Air Force
etc. think of them. "
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In response to your inquiry, Special Agent S. W. Reynolds obtained
the follov1ing information today (3/28/50) from L!ajor Boggs and Lieutenant
Colonel J . V. Hearn of Air Force Intelligence.
The Air Force discontinued
their intelligence project_ to determine what flying saucers are the latter part
of last year.
They publicly announced to the press in December, 1949, that
the project had .been discontinued.
They advised t hat the press release had
been concurred in by the Army and Navy.
The reason for the discontinuance,
according to Major Boggs and Lieutenant Colonel Hearn, was t hat after two
years of investigation over three- fourths of the incidents regarding flying
saucers proved to be misidentifications of a wide variety of conventional
items such as lighted weather balloons and other air- borne objects.
Colonel Hearn pointed out that the Commanders of the various areas
are charged with t he security of those areas.
Reports concerning flying saucers
received at this time will be investigated by the Ar ea Commander and his report
submit ted to the Air Force Intelligence Division as an intelligence item.
Major Boggs and Lieutenant Colonel Hearn made the observation that
many of t he r eported sightings of flying saucers at this time appear to be an out-
grov,th of recent magazine articles. They reiterated that t he Air Force is
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conducting no active investigation to determine whether flying saucers exist
or what they might happen to be.
by the Bureau in October, 1947, in order that the Air Force could take over
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You will recall that the investigation of flying saucers was discontinued
sucb~·~vestigations.
(62- 83894-141-160)
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