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Sl'ANolll'lD FORM NO... • UNITED -sTATEs GOVERNMENT Director, FBI July 26, 1949 SAC, San Antonio SUBJECT: FLYING DISKS On July 15, 1949, the Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2, Fourth Arrey, advised that a small article which had appeared in the Galveston (Texas) News on July 10, 1949, advertised the fact that the Young Men 1s Business Club of Alexandria, Louisiana, announced that it was planning a convention for persons from all over the nation who have seen flying saucers. It was stated that the convention was planned so that members may compare notes. It was also stated that flying disks were reported twice inthe v-A3ek preceding the article in Alexandria, Louisiana. The above is furnished as a matter of information. cc: New Orleans

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Record of Telephone Cal I or r. Nicbols_---t• Miss Holmes absence from their office, Mr. Cuneo declined to speak to an. yone else and stated that he was just following up on a conversation he had with Mr . Ladd over the weelf:end. He asked that Mr. Ladd be informed of his call•.

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FICE OF D1RECTO RAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Record of Telephone Call or Visitor Mr. Tele. Room Miss Holmes Miss Gandy When informed that Mr. Hoover was not in his office, Mr. Cuneo asked to speak with Mr. Ladd, and after checking the call was transferred, to Mr. Ladd advises that Mr. Cuneo was calling about the matter he dicussed with Mr . Indd on last Saturday re a fluing_ saucer in Califor- nia . • Cuneo asked if he could release the stor He was told that this was up to him

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New York~ New York Dear Ernie: You LJill recall the r2-aphona converoa successful and casual t ngu i.r·y in the utcin-&t{i he men'ti oned cHd not develop i,r,,Jormation about the posa ibtlity that the ortginal letter in this matter may oove been a prani.. Sincerely youra, ~

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(RO FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT THE DIRECTOR July 12, 1949 You inquired as to what ~~s b#)ing done with : ::~ reference to the information concerning '/1:)IJng saucers, 1ll1rr:. ~M~or.!hi=r= - which information was furnished by Ernes~ uneo . .kb~~.. ~:::'___ I desire to aduise that aletter is being pre ared ~ fo r the Los Angeles Office suggesting that they make a discreet check of the background of the individual who wrote the lette~ t ~ nchell and thereafter interview him for details . It is belieued that a le~ter is satisfactor y inasmuch noted that this alleged incident occurred in 1947.

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SAC, LOS ANGELES PETER CAMERLO~NES, tNFORMATION CONCERNU . REMYTEL JUL • - SUTEL RESULTS YOUR BACKGROUND ID INTERVIEW OF SUBJECT. co CATIO SE bn i'ICJ J

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Los Angeles 13, california DIRECTOR, FBI INFORMATION CONCERFING Dear Sir: Re your teletype July 12, 1949. Present owner for one and one half years and former manager of court for six years, which includes 164 \". 37th Street, Los Angeles, do not know PETER CAMERLON JONES . Other investigation in an endeavor to locate JONES was not Very truly yours,

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• FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGAT. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TO: COMMUNICATIONS SECTION. SAC, too AROELES "'- ISFORUATION CONCERNtlm. SUBJECT. . ADDRESSED A LETTER TO WAL~INCHELL RELlTIRO TBAT IN AUGUST, NINETEEN FORTISEV1!2l, HE WAS HIIING IW TRR JrOUNTADS OUT OF IA AND BE OBSERVED ABOUT ONE HAIi BLOCK AWAI FRO HD( A IJ,.ROE snVER METAL.OBJECT SHAPED LIKE A CHILD•S TOP ABOUT THi SIZE OF A BALLOON. BB GAINED THE DlPRESSION THERE TfAS LlFE lHTHIN THE OEJECT TliOOGB HE SA 10 ONE . HE STOOD UP AND VED TO':IARDS THE OBJECT nTRIN A SECOND IT TOOX OFF, KNOCKING Rm TO THE OROOND. DISCREETLY CHEC! BACKO."lomID OF JONES. THEREAFTER, DITERVIEr1 BIY FOR THE PURPOSE OF Dm'ER!.!ININO A.NY FACTS rN HIS POSSESSION CONC~Im THE STATIWENTS SiT OUT RE."l.EIH. DIRECTOR'S OFFICJt. li';:: COMMUNICATIONS SECTION COPIES DESTROYED L_,

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Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO THE DinECTOR DATE : SUBJECT: -i,•L-YIN-G- S-AUCERS I took a call from ErnesY"Cuneo by reference from your of fice . He ref erred to his call of last :~ail.~~~ Saturday relative to a letter Mr . Winchell received from a man in Los Angeles concerning f lying saucers. He stated that Winchell wanted to do a column on this lett er if the ;, 1 ~ ~ ,1-, / I told him that whatever he did with reference to ~ \ writing the story concerning this lett er was entirely up to him and woul~in no way (AJ.fect anything the Bureau was doing . I suggested that he might desire to check with the Air Corps inasmuch as the handling of flying saucers was a mat ter of primary int erest to them. He s tated, "To hell with the Air Force . He just didn 't wan-t to release the inf ormation if i t would 4,/Jfect ~1 the Bur eau''·

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• UNITED GOVERNMENT Ernes Cuneo advised that Walte inchel l had recei :::~~,:: Angeles 7, California. Mr. C~o read the let er to me and it ~:: was very well written obviously by a man of intelligence. In ~ ·~ this letter Jones stated that in August of 1947 he left Los An{e~es' -r---,.. ~- for the mountains and started hiking through the mountains. About .I(J 10:00 A. M. he was lying on the ground when he observed about one- /~'/I[~'-"~ half block away from him a large silver metal, greenish in color, shaped l i ke a child's top and about the size of the balloons used at County Fairs. He stated that there appeared to be two windows in the object and portions of metal appeared transparent and that he ~ gained the impression that there was some life within this obje~ ~f.-dl. although he saw no persons. The object appeared as though ~ as a pressure chamber. He stood up and waved towards this object and this so-called flying saucer was of£ the ground in a second, knocking