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e . . STANDARD FORM NO, 64 . _ - Office Memorandum » onrrep states GOVERNMENT TO : Director, FBI DATE: May 13, 1949 wee zal Les Angeles SUBJECT: "FLYING DISK" REPORT (INFORMATION CONCERNING On May 5, 1949 Mr. MEL HODELL, a reporter for the Sun-Star newspaper, Merced, California, advised Special Agent MARLIN W. JOHNSON, that his paper had been contacted by Lt. Col. STANLEY JACOBS, Intelligence Officer, Castle Air Force Base, Merced, California, relative te any reports that the newspaper might have received concerning "flying disks" in the Merced vicinity. : Mr. HODELL stated a clese friend of his, one WILLIAM H,/PARROTT, 12-A Langdon Villa, Merced, had advised him that he had obsefved a strange object, and as he is in the Air Corps Reserve, he reported same to the Intelligence Officer at Castle Field. On the same date Mr. GEORGE BREMER, Detachment Commander, Office of Special Investigations, Castle Air Force Base, Merced, California, advised SA MARLIN W. JOHNSON that he had heard that an individual had reported seeing a "flying disk" to the Intelligence Office at the Base but that the Intelligence Officer had not furnished the information to him. Mr. BREMER later on the same date contacted SA JOHNSON and exhibited a letter written by STANLEY F. JACOBS, Lt. Col., USAF, Adjutant (Intelligence Officer) to Commanding General, Air Material Command, Wright-Patterson AFB, Wright Field, Ohio. This letter contained a statement given by Mr. WILLIAM H. PARROTT which read as follows: "I had occasion to step from my home, located approximately one mile west of the town of Merced, on the night of April 4, 1949, at approximately 2220. My attention was diverted to a clicking noise of considerable intensity. I stopped on the sidewalk about 20 feet from the front steps and recognized the source of this clicking to be in the sky in an area about 40 degrees from the surface of the earth in an easterly direction. The sky cendition was 20000 thin broken with 12 miles visibility and surface winds were reported as north nine M.P.H. at Castle Air Force weather station. My home is approximately seven miles south of Castle Air Force Base and in an area somewhat sheltered from surface winds,and no appreciable surface wind was apparent at the time the aural observation was made. After about ten seconds of looking into the area described previously as being the source of this sound, an object was observed blanking out stars in describing a flight path ina west or northwesterly direction. Only one object was apparent, its shape can be described as only a solid mass. Its size can be estimated as four er five feet in diameter in keeping with an estimated altitude of con- siderably less than 1000 (ene thousand) feet. Color was shown by the reflection of ground lights on enly two occasions, and appeared vey be 100=2442 RECORDED - 110 | CA =F 2 o A= MW s JAW INDEXED - 110 7 47 1948 3 tif US