1947.0927 Hoover on "toilet seats" memo

 

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.

 

 

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

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

There is a rapid turnover of UFO material on the Internet. Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date. Therefore, instead of giving many links to specific webpages I have instead focused on providing tables of references to discussion of UFO incidents, personalities and other matters in various books. Those tables of references to discussion in books can be sorted by author, length and date. I hope these tools are useful.

 

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”).

The table below includes references to relevant discussions in UFO/SETI books noted by Isaac Koi during a review of approximately 963 UFO/SETI books during the period 2003-2006 (with a few later additions). The table can be sorted by author, date and length of discussion by clicking on the relevant word in the top line of the table.

Many of the tables of references on this website are considerably longer than the references to books found on most other UFO websites. Indeed, some are probably the longest that have been collated in relation to some events and personalities. I hope that these tables are found to be a useful contribution to UFOlogy.

For discussion of this FBI document see the following:

 

Year	Discussion by:	No. of Pages
2003	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.	1
1994	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”).	2
2000	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.	1
1998	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.	1
1991	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 US government at the beginning”) of the CUFOS paperback edition.

 

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