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€ ‘Federal Bureau af Inuestiy_tic ) United States Department of Justice 422 = Federal Office Building, Civic Center| San Francisco 2, California IN REPLY, PLEASE REFER TO September 19, 1947 FILE NO. hoy JD jreotor, FBI Attention; Assistant Diractor D. M. LADD RE: ‘REPORTS OF FLYING DISCS er ncn, iw - » ore we £ September 3, 1947, which was furnished to me by Lieutenant Colone A-2, Army Air Forces, Hamilton Field, California, which letter 4. is designated to certain Commanding Generals in the Army Air Forces from bile Colone] QMMm Assistant Chief of staff - Intelligence, Headquarters Air Defense Command, Mitchel Field, New York, concarning "Cooperation of FBI with AAF on Investigations of 'Flying Disc' Incidents", . Ww : - I am transmitting herewith copies of a restricted” letter date U Ig is my understanding from recent Bureau instructions that we are I to assist the Air Force Intelligence personnel in the investigation of flying |; disc incidants. However, it will be noted from the attached letter that it is Army interpretation that it was their intent that the Bureau would investi=/ Nn yw. o ceteenss an rate those jncidents of the so=salled "dises" being found on the ground and { apparently not those which are observed only in flight. fFfurthor, the atten= tion of the Bureau is respectfully called to paragraph two of this letter end to the last sentence therein which states, "The services of the FBI wore enlisted in order to relieve the numbered Air Forces of the task of tracking ; down all the many instances which turned out to be ash can covers, toilet seats and whatnote” In the first place, the instructions issued by the Army Air Forcas in this latter epnear te limit the type of investieationa which the Bureau etter appear the of investigations - will be asked to handle and secondly | it appears to me the wording of the last sentence in the sscond paragraph mentioned above is cloaked in entirely uncalled for language tending to indicate the Bureau will be asked to conduct investigations only in those cases which are not important and which exe Like almost, im fact, ridiculous. ; ae z ‘i 2 . _ The thought has occurred to me the Bureau might desire to discuss o s this matter further with the Army Air Forces both as to the types of investi- TX t “gations which we. will conduct and also to object to the sourrilous wordara “which, to say the least, is insulting toithe- ‘Bureau in the last sentence of paragraph twoe oe . . # ‘ a fae sey : eo f et i E Pr ‘ pf Set ff A," I 4 at EX. 43 BGT sa yw i pa _ rw 4 om Oo UUi Ze al 4 f . * . = so See imam cre eo a a A mt mg” — Bw hee a s ar - . . ~ vy, . ~ Fad oo ae ae eet OL Sic a a “er PO eT eT oie . . : w oe ve mot “~ a nn a OF ke - gn SR et Tre ee eR OT ag DE mn Se PU eR put ee pecans Tg OR MD Teta Ge ee