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FBI attempts to explain UFO memo in vault
yahoo.com ^ | Mar 27, 2013 | Dylan Stableford

Posted on 03/29/2013 3:22:44 AM PDT by Las Vegas Dave

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has broken its silence on the most popular file in its digital vault. The one-page memo, dated March 22, 1950, was addressed to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover from Guy Hottel, then head of the FBI's Washington, D.C., field office. It relayed some information from an informant. The subject: FLYING SAUCERS INFORMATION CONCERNING "An investigator for the Air Force stated that three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico," Hottel writes. "They were described as being circular in shape with raised centers, approximately 50 feet in diameter. Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only 3 feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture. Each body was bandaged in a manner similar to the blackout suits used by speed fliers and test pilots.” No further evaluation was attempted, Hottel reports. The file, published by the vault in April 2011 under the Freedom of Information Act, has been viewed nearly a million times, the FBI said, in part because media outlets "erroneously reported that the FBI had posted proof of a UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico [in 1947] and the recovery of wreckage and alien corpses."

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TOPICS: UFO's; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: aliens; brakinghard; conspiracynews; dylanstableford; extraterrestrials; fbi; fbivault; guyhottel; hoover; hottelmemo; jedgarhoover; johnpodesta; mystery; newmexico; planecrash; roswell; transparency; ufo; ufos
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To: JoeProBono

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBEwqQU5s_0


21 posted on 03/29/2013 5:30:08 AM PDT by HerrBlucher (Praise to the Lord the Almighty the King of Creation)
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To: HerrBlucher
Papa ooh mir mir papa ooh mir mir papa ooh mir mir papa ooh mir mir

Ee-ee-ee ee-ee

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22 posted on 03/29/2013 5:45:06 AM PDT by mc5cents
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To: mc5cents

Papa oom mow mow...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQrQjNNZCAo


23 posted on 03/29/2013 5:50:18 AM PDT by HerrBlucher (Praise to the Lord the Almighty the King of Creation)
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To: coconut47

I saw one in the early 2000s and it freaked me out too.


24 posted on 03/29/2013 5:56:18 AM PDT by SwankyC (Democrats and Republicans agree, govt coercion is OK if it fits your idea of whats OK)
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To: Timber Rattler

I’ve read of a Hoover memo about wanting to get a look at recovered UFOs that the army had.


25 posted on 03/29/2013 6:06:10 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: BigCinBigD
For what its worth, I was a Maintenance Technician on the NORAD SAGE Computer System in Nov 1975 the nights that we had multiple UFO incidents at the 24th NORAD region in Gt Falls Montana. The incident I was witness to is described here:

Montana UFOs

These were very interesting nights that I will never forget and I was right there in the Blue Room when these "sightings" occurred and was listening to the controllers talking to the pilots (of the scrambled F-106's).

26 posted on 03/29/2013 6:37:22 AM PDT by JaguarXKE (Welcome to the new America.)
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To: coconut47

I saw one that freaked me out too, though I still highly doubt it was Alien. UFO, for sure, Alien? ehhh...


27 posted on 03/29/2013 6:44:43 AM PDT by Paradox (Unexpected things coming for the next few years.)
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To: Las Vegas Dave

Pictures of flying saucers declined significantly after hub caps went out of fashion.


28 posted on 03/29/2013 6:45:14 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Puppage

29 posted on 03/29/2013 6:58:12 AM PDT by John 3_19-21 ("as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.")
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To: Kirkwood

Indeed that’s when they came up with lights in the night sky gig.


30 posted on 03/29/2013 6:59:13 AM PDT by Vaduz
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Most of the Roswell keyword with a UFO connection, newest to oldest:
31 posted on 03/29/2013 7:18:16 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: Las Vegas Dave

I won’t go into detail here, but I once witnessed something in the sky that isn’t possible with current human technology. Thankfully, a second person was with me, who also witnessed it.

It bothered me so bad, that I got in touch with MUFON to find out if they had any similar reports on file. The investigator told me that mine was the only report of its type.

I still have no explanation for what I saw.


32 posted on 03/29/2013 8:07:50 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: JaguarXKE

Anyone who thinks we are alone, needs their head examined.


33 posted on 03/29/2013 8:46:13 AM PDT by BigCinBigD (...Was that okay?)
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To: Windflier

I don’t get this “freaked me out” attitude/emotion on many of the posts on this thread.

I saw something, found it interesting, told everyone I could. . .never scared me, freaked me out, nothing. Just aroused my curiosity.


34 posted on 03/29/2013 8:58:29 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: Young Werther

Queen of Outer Space?

....meet the man from Space


35 posted on 03/29/2013 9:36:59 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Puppage
Kazoo?

meet Ozmodiar

Meet Francisco Cervelli


36 posted on 03/29/2013 9:47:36 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Hulka
I don’t get this “freaked me out” attitude/emotion on many of the posts on this thread.

Seeing something totally out of your experience will sometimes do that.

Back in the '70s I worked at Camp Pendleton and was walking over to the PXs garden section when I happened to look up. It was one of those typical California days with not a cloud in sight and the bluest of skies.

Right smack in the middle was this coal-black object that looked like an "H" lying on it side, with the upper bar a bit shorter. It just hung there, motionless, looking like someone had drawn that object in the sky with India ink.

The hair on the back of my neck started to raise as I had a major WTF moment - TOTALLY motionless and ALIEN. In a few seconds it started to change color and went a bright silver. It was one of those twin-tailed Beechcraft airplanes the military had that carried a small radar dome on top - hence the shorter bar on that horizontal "H". I must have caught sight of it just as it made a wide sweeping banking turn, giving that illusion of motionless, and a trick of light turned it black.

That moment gave me some idea of what people experience when they see a UFO, and from that point on, always sympathized with them in their moment of uncertainty or fear.

37 posted on 03/29/2013 10:04:15 AM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: Vaquero
Howsa bout MISS UNIVERSE! Look familiar?

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U nbelievable

F emale

O bservation

38 posted on 03/29/2013 10:06:21 AM PDT by Young Werther (Julius Caesar said "Quae cum ita sunt. Since these things are so.".)
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To: DouglasKC

LOL


39 posted on 03/29/2013 11:09:54 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: Hulka
I don’t get this “freaked me out” attitude/emotion on many of the posts on this thread.

I doubt that many of those posting were really 'freaked out' by their sightings.

It's a kind of political correctness in this community. You're not supposed to believe in this stuff, or even attempt to have a rational conversation about such things on FR. Doesn't matter whether you've seen it with your own eyes or not.

40 posted on 03/29/2013 1:05:16 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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