FBI attempts to explain UFO memo in vault

yahoo.com ^ | Mar 27, 2013 | Dylan Stableford

[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."

[Las Vegas Dave]

"A bizarre memo that appears to prove that aliens did land in New Mexico prior to 1950 has been published by the FBI," the Daily Mail declared in 2011. "The Hottel memo does not prove the existence of UFOs," the bureau said in a blog post on its website this week. "It is simply a second- or third-hand claim that we never investigated." And the Hottel memo isn’t new, the FBI said. "It was first released publicly in the late 1970s and had been posted on the FBI website for several years prior to the launch of the Vault." Besides, the FBI notes, the Hottel memo is dated nearly three years after the infamous events in Roswell in July 1947. "There is no reason to believe the two are connected," the bureau said: The FBI has only occasionally been involved in investigating reports of UFOs and extraterrestrials. For a few years after the Roswell incident, Director Hoover did order his agents—the request of the Air Force—verify any UFO sightings. That practice ended in July 1950, four months after the Hottel memo, suggesting that our Washington Field Office didn't think enough of that flying saucer story to look into it.

[Las Vegas Dave]

Pinging the unidentified aerial phenomena list (ufo) ..

May 8, 1950-This is one of the most famous UFO pictures ever taken.
Photographed by Paul Trent, and first witnessed by his wife.
They were published in a local newspaper in McMinnville, Oregon.
Shortly thereafter, the Trent photos were published in Life magazine edition of June 26, 1950.
The rest is history.
(These photos have been deemed authentic for over 50 years. The analysis of the McMinnville photos by Dr.Bruce Maccabee PhD, can be found here = http://brumac.8k.com/trent1.html )

Those interested in the uap/ufo ping list, please Freepmail
LasVegasDave (freepmail works best)
if you would like your name added to the list.
( Approximately 200+ freepers are currently on the ping list ).

[Timber Rattler]

Link to the actual document

So Hoover's curiosity wasn't picqued by this?

[Las Vegas Dave]

That practice ended in July 1950, four months after the Hottel memo, suggesting that our Washington Field Office didn't think enough of that flying saucer story to look into it..

IMO: the files were most likely moved in their "BLACK VAULT"!

[DouglasKC]

According to the memo high power radar is enough to bring these suckers down...get on the horn and let everyone know we got those pint sized aliens on the run!

[lowbridge]

Hasnt anybody ever heard of midget manned weather balloons? /s

[HerrBlucher]

“We have just discovered an important note from space. The martians plan to throw a dance for all the human race.” Bubba hmm meh meh bubba hmmm meh meh bubba hmm bubba hmm bubba hmm meh meh......

[ZX12R]

Pics, or it didn’t happen.

[Young Werther]

Save the first dance for Me!

[BigCinBigD]

I knew it!

[Bon mots]

The are here "To Serve Man".

[Bon mots]

Thx for the ping!!!
Great find.

[Puppage]

get on the horn and let everyone know we got those pint sized aliens on the run!

What you talk'n bout,Douglas?

[Las Vegas Dave]

Some of the Trent photos can be seen here:

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=trent+2+ufo+photo&go=&qs=ds&form=QBIR

[coconut47]

Nobody ever believes anything like UFO’s unless they see them with their own eyes. I saw one back in the early 80’s in Wash. State and it scared the crap out of me.

[HerrBlucher]

Can you dance Locomotion and the Hully Gully too?

[JoeProBono]

[JoeProBono]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrGLNtZ0rEg

[HerrBlucher]

The Stroll? Squaresville man. The Hully Gully rocks...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMsJfozZ9f0

[JoeProBono]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQBKpV9emKc