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é ¢ és , Federal Bureau of Investigation United States Department of Justice 422 = Federal Office Building, Civic Center \ yy San Francisco 2, California September 19, 1947 IN REPLY, PLEASE REFER TO PILE NO. _.___ — i} j Jj Director, FBI Attention: Assistant Director D. M. LADD sy’ Y gee | CA RE: -REPORTS OF FLYING DISCS rene enters . Dear Sirs: I am transmitting herewith copies of a "restricted" letter LNG September 3, 1947, which was furnished to me by Lieutenant Colonel DOWALD L. SPRINGER, A-2, Army Air Forces, Hamilton Field, California, which letter is designated to certain Commanding Generals in the Army Air Forces from Colonel R. H. SMITH, Assistant Chief of Staff = Intelligence, Headquarters Air Defense Command, Mitchel Field, New York, concerning "Cooperation of FBI with AAF on Investigations of ‘Flying Disc' Incidents", It is my understanding from recent Bureau instructions thet we are to assist the Air Force Intelligence personnel in the investigation of flying dise incidents. However, it will be noted from the attached letter that it is Army interpretation that it was their intent that the Bureau would investi-/ gate those incidents of the so-called "discs" being found on the ground and | apparently not those which are observed only in flight. Further, the atten- — tion of the Bureau is respectfully called to paragraph two of this letter and to the last sentence therein which states, "The services of the FBI were enlisted in order to relieve the numbered Air Forces of the task of tracking down all the many instanées which turned out to_be ash can covers, toilet seats and whatnote" In the first place, the instructions issued by the Army Air Forces in this letter appear to limit the type of investigations which the Bureau will be asked to handle and secondly it appears to me the wording of the last sentence in the second paragraph mentioned above is cloaked in entirely uncalled for language tending to indicate the Bureau will be asked to conduc investigations only in those cases which are not important and which are almost, in fact, ridiculous. per The thought has occurred to me the Bureau might desire to discuss this matter further with the Army Air Forces both as to the types of investi- gations which we will conduct and also to object to the scurrilous wordage which, to say the least, is insulting to'thé Bureau in the last sentence of paragraph twoe pe / ff “f & ¢ Z are pis - FA w