U.S. Air Force Flying Discs File, 1952

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(Conf) Des Verges, Dunham Sanborn, Request for Information about

Counter Intelligence Division
Director of Special Investigations, The IG

Directorate of Intelligence, DCS/O

SEP - 5 1952

Maj Fournet/bps/71016
AFOIN-2A2
W/5 Sept 52

1. Subject was the principal in the alleged sighting of an unidentified flying object in the vicinity of West Palm Beach, Florida on the night of 19 August 1952. A field investigation of a technical nature has been conducted by the Air Technical Intelligence Center, but no conclusive results have yet been obtained. However, there are indications of a possible hoax, vis. the results of the FBI lab analysis on Des Vergers' cap (ref your R&R to this office dtd 30 Aug 52) and the actions of Des Vergers subsequent to the alleged sighting.

2. A check of subject's Marine Corps personnel records has revealed that he was given a bad conduct discharge 1 November 1944 following his conviction by a civil court in Florida for violation of National Motor Vehicle Theft Act. He was sentenced to 2½ years in the Federal Reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio (Reformatory No. 23542-C). His Marine Corps medical records were negative as regards psychiatric indications or treatment.

3. It has also been learned, from a source whose reliability cannot be judged, that subject may have been confined at one time to a mental institution in the state of New York.

4. It is therefore requested that the following information be obtained:

a. Any records of psycho-neurotic examination and/or treatment while confined to the Federal Reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio.

b. Evidence that he was at one time confined to a mental institution in the state of New York.

JOHN G. ERIKSEN
Colonel, USAF
Assistant Deputy Director for Estimates
Directorate of Intelligence

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