It says “...and investigator FOR the Air Force” which means SOMEBODY WHO WORKS FOR THE AIR FORCE “stated that three so-called flying saucers HAD BEEN RECOVERED...”, not that he heard somebody in a bar talking about it or something.People who work FOR the Air Force talk smack in bars sometimes. Should it all be taken seriously?
I take it seriously.
If you are the Special Agent in Charge, you don’t make points with the big boys by sending drunken bar chatter memos to the Director of the FBI.
Those guys are good.
The memo is real, and what the memo talks about is real.
not just that. if there would have been the slightest credibility to it, mr. hoover would have been on it like a duck on a junebug.
fact is, mr. hoover — according to a friend who was an agent during that era, who still calls him “mr. hoover” — wanted a memo written for every phone call or report received by the bureau. he wanted every minute accounted for. there are no doubt memos involving wrong number calls to fbi field offices.
Someone in the Air Force was probably tired of dumb yokels asking about aliens so he mouthed off this story, not knowing the dumb yokel would go and tell the FBI what he heard from the Air Force guy.