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   SUBJECT: The Majestic Twelve                                 FILE: UFO1064   
      
   PART 21   
      
   CUFON Computer UFO Network   
      
   Document #: 4   
   From: UFO INFO SERVICE   
   Date Sent: 06-09-1986   
   Subject: 1949 FBI MEMO RE: PHOTOS   
      
            CUFON-UFO INFORMATION SERVICE SEATTLE, WA   
      
            FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT DOCUMENT FILES   
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   Office Memorandum - UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT   
      
   TO : DIRECT OR FBI                            DATE: January 10, 1949   
   FROM : SAC KNOXVILLE   
   SUBJECT : "FLYING SAUCERS" OBSERVED OVER   
             OAK RIDGE AREA   
             INTERNAL SECURITY-X   
      
        There are being submitted herewith two photographs of reputedly   
   "flying saucers" which were seen at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, sometime   
   during July of 1947.  All of the information contained in this letter   
   was received from George Rateman, Resident Engineer, Air Material   
   Command, United States Army, who is the principal army technician   
   at the Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft Research Center   
   at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.   
      
        Mr. Rateman advised that the attached photographs were taken   
   by ______ in July of 1947.  He stated that interview with _______   
   revealed that he had been snapping photographs of his family in front   
   of his residence at 218 Illinois Avenue, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, late   
   in the afternoon, when he looked into the sky and observed the vapor   
   trail as exhibited by the photograph numbered "1."  __________ stated   
   that he took a snap of this trail, was winding the film to the next   
   number, when he looked into the sky and observed the ball of fire   
   as shown in photograph 2.  _______ made these photographs available   
   to reporters of the Knoxville News-Sentinel and a story concerning   
   them was run in that paper; however, as shown by the photostatic copy   
   of the newspaper clipping, which is also being submitted herewith   
   to the Bureau, the print was very indistinct; the news story did not   
   contain any factual information; and it was regarded generally by   
   the public at the time as a possible trick.   
      
        Later, it was learned by Rateman And _________ that _________   
   had made several copies of this photograph and had distributed them   
   among his aquaintances at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.  Upon ___________   
   finding that the photographs had received some distribution, he requested   
   Rateman as Head o f the Compliance and Investigations Division, to   
   recover as many as possible of the photographs, advise the persons   
   in whose possession they were found to say nothing to anyone concerning   
   them, and to return the said photographs to him for transmission to   
   the United States Air Force Intelligence Service.  Rateman advises   
   that he succeeded in rounding up twenty four copies of these photographs,   
   and that, according to the statements of ________, no more copies   
   were made or distributed.  Rateman further stated that _______ had   
   appeared extremely concerned over the matter and seemed quite emphatic   
   that the matter should be given no more publicity than was absolutely   
   necessary.  Rateman also advised that he studied the negatives from   
   which the reproductions were made, and they appeared to be authentic   
   in that trick photography should have been apparent, but from   
   the ______________ __________ ______.   
      
      
      
   NOTE: THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENT WAS OBTAINED THROUGH NORMAL CHANNELS,   
   INCLUDING THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA).  THE DOCUMENT IS   
   NOT A HOAX.  GUY HOTTEL WAS THE SENIOR AGENT IN CHARGE (SAC) OF THE   
   WASHINGTON FBI OFFICE IN 1950.  THIS IS ONE OF THE KEY DOCUMENTS THAT,   
   ALL TOGETHER, INDICATE A GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY COVER-UP OF UFOs   
   THAT MAKES WATERGATE LOOK LIKE CHILDS PLAY.   
      
      
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   Office Memorandum                         UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT   
      
   TO: DIRECTOR, FBI                             DATE: March 22, 1950   
      
   FROM: GUY HOTTEL, SAC, WASHINGTON   
      
   SUBJECT: FLYING SAUCERS   
            INFORMATION CONCERNING   
      
      
   The following information was furnished to SA [blanked] by   
   [                               blanked                                ]   
   [                               blanked                                ]   
      
   An investigator for the Air Forces stated that three so-called flying   
   saucers had been recovered in New Mexico.  They were described as   
   being circular in shape with raised centers, approxi-mately 50 feet   
   in diameter. Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape   
   but only three 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 flyers and test pilots.   
      
   According to Mr. [blanked] informant, the saucers were found in New   
   Mexico due to the fact that the Government has a very high-powered   
   radar set-up in that area and it is believed the radar interferes   
   with the controling mechanism of the saucers.   
      
   No further evaluation was attempted by SA [blank] concerning the above.   
      
      
      
   RHK:VIM   
      
      
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