On 24 September 1947, FBI Director J Edgar Hoover wrote to Major General McDonald informing him that the FBI would be discontinuing all investigative activity regarding the reported sightings of flying discs, mentioning the “ash can covers, toilet seats and whatnot” comment in the memo from Colonel R H Smith (Assistant Chief of Staff Intelligence) dated 3 September 1947.
Web Resources
Complete image of relevant memo available online at page 19 (of 77 pages) in Part 4 (of 16 parts) of the UFO material on the FBI’s FOIA website at the link below:
http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/ufo.htm{text}
Book References
Complete text of memo presented by Fawcett, George and Greenwood, Barry in their “Clear Intent” (1984) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 158-159 (in Chapter 10) of the Spectrum softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the Fireside softcover edition published under the title “The UFO Cover-Up”).
For discussion of this FBI document see the following:
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Clark, Jerome in his “Strange Skies: Pilot Encounters with UFOs” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 224 (in the Notes) of the Citadel softcover edition. |
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Fawcett, George and Greenwood, Barry (with complete text ) in their “Clear Intent” (1984) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 158-159 (in Chapter 10) of the Spectrum softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the Fireside softcover edition published under the title “The UFO Cover-Up”). |
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Maccabee, Bruce in his “UFO-FBI Connection” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 32 (in Chapter 4) of the Llewellyn softcover edition. |
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Redfern, Nicholas in his “The FBI Files” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 37 (in Chapter 2) of the Simon & Schuster softcover edition, with the same page numbering in the Pocket Books paperback edition. |
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Swords, Michael D in “The Roswell Report : A Historical Perspective” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) (edited by Eberhart, George) at page 15 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The summer of 1947 : UFOs and the |
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