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."

[HerrBlucher]

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

[mc5cents]

Papa ooh mir mir papa ooh mir mir papa ooh mir mir papa ooh mir mir

Ee-ee-ee ee-ee

Klaatu barada nikto

[HerrBlucher]

Papa oom mow mow...

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

[SwankyC]

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

[SunkenCiv]

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

[JaguarXKE]

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).

[Paradox]

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

[Kirkwood]

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

[John 3_19-21]

[Vaduz]

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

[SunkenCiv]

Most of the Roswell keyword with a UFO connection, newest to oldest:

• Latest theory says Roswell UFO was Russian craft
• Was Stalin behind the Roswell UFOs?
• DISCLOSURE!!!! FBI MEMO CONFIRMS ROSWELL!! [2011]
• Nuclear Physicist Describes Vast UFO Cover-Up
• Roswell witness spots small 'metallic' UFO above Main Street
• The 6 Most Famous UFO Sightings in History
• Two Simple Facts Prove Roswell UFO is Real
• COAST TO COAST AM: Roswell Revisited (11pm hour Pacific)
• UFO believer: We're not the only ones
• ROSWELL DEBRIS CONFIRMED AS EXTRATERRESTRIAL: Lab Located, Scientists Named
• Roswell: UFO investigators reveal possible otherworldly relic
• 'We're Not Alone,' Ex-Astronaut Says [Edgar Mitchell] (w/polls)
• Former astronaut: Man not alone in universe
• Roswell Fireman Confesses -- It was a Flying Saucer!
• V-shaped UFOs in NM photos
• Exeter -- the East Coast Roswell[New Hampshire]
• Alien contact covered up, says Apollo veteran Edgar Mitchell
• Ex-Astronaut: Aliens Are Real and NASA Knows It
• Top Astronaut: 'Aliens Do Exist' [Dr Edgar Mitchell who was the sixth man on the Moon......]
• COAST TO COAST AM -- George Noory broadcasting from Roswell on 60th anniversary of alien crash(?)
• Coast-to-coast am (07.07.06) from Roswell NM
• 50 Years After Roswell, New Evidence, Testimony Shed Light on UFO Crash
• Dead Airman's Affidavit: Roswell Aliens Were Real
• Roswell Aliens Theory Revived by Deathbed Confession (Cue Spooky Music)
• Roswell officer's amazing deathbed admission raises possibility that aliens DID visit
• Lt Walter Haut's Notarized Affidavit Verifying Roswell Egg Shaped Craft Signed Pre Death in 2002 C2C
• Former Canadian Defense Minister Says Alien Technology May Save Earth
• Lt. Walter Haut dies (Issued initial statement about UFO at Roswell).
• Walter Haut, spokesman who announced wreckage of flying saucer in Roswell, died at 83
• Roswell Smoking Gun, the Ramey Memo -- (explosive new proof;UFO crash N.M. 1947; gov't cover-up!)
• The UFO Phenomenon -- Seeing Is Believing (Peter Jennings tonight -- Live Thread)
• THEY'RE HEERE (4-Star NYPost Review Praises Peter Jennings for Exposing Gov't UFO Coverup)
• Flying saucers in New Mexico? Governor rekindles Roswell
• Anomalies Found in Roswell Metal
• UFO Marathon on The History Channel, Sunday, April 25, 2004
• Sci Fi Channel-backed researcher sues NASA over UFO files
• UFO Invasion at Rendlesham on the SCI FI channel (Live Thread)
• New Roswell Witness! [81 year old wife of involved sgt]
• CNN LARRY KING LIVE: Do UFOs Exist? [Transcripts]
• Contact: witnesses insist little green men crashed in New Mexico (Roswell UFO new witness)
• Roswell Incident Had Victims, Program Says

[Windflier]

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.

[BigCinBigD]

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

[Hulka]

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.

[Vaquero]

Queen of Outer Space?

....meet the man from Space

[Vaquero]

Kazoo?

meet Ozmodiar

Meet Francisco Cervelli

[Oatka]

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.

[Young Werther]

Howsa bout MISS UNIVERSE! Look familiar?

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U nbelievable

F emale

O bservation

[mowowie]

LOL

[Windflier]

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.