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zt L * = ses en Ae arm SE a ny ty aR A Re ttn nl ee a Aa Se sg tial eee eR oe dat ens ee ee . P . se ee : + no et : Office Mes Sadan © UNITED sta Ox GOVERNMENT Tt ~~: The Director ; , pate. danuary 2h, 1949 ¥e FROM —: he M, Ladd py: =: wk - i: ze SUBJECT: “FLYING Discs F ~ Of E 7 f I thought you might be interested in the following information = &: ; hee concerning "Flying Dises" which has been furnished to the Bureau on @ = 7 $3 confidential basis by gi Ade he isis = = Waterial Command, U. S.Army, who_is the principsl army technician at the nn Sep! wy Nuclear Energy for the’ Propulsion of Aircraft Rescarch Center. at Oak Ridge, + : Tennessee. . b: i SI 28 that he knew nothing of an official nature concerning ged "Flying Discs" other than the fact thet they are believed by Air Force Intelligence “| officials to be man-made missiles, rather than some natural phenomena. It was his ~s t further belief that a great deal of information has been compiled concerning, these ; missiles by air force intelligence, and that research on the matter was being ein Vie WP Meme ie oe extensively done at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. la then continued with his om ideas as to what might be the nature of these disca which ideas he had formulated through review of those known facts ani theoretical conjectures of himself and other scientists concerning the nature of flying dises end methods of propulsion for such type of serial mechanisn. According to hia, flying discs have long been a theoretical possibility, and,in fact, a possibility which would indicate one of the best meana by which to break through the barriers of the supersonic area. He stated that scientists have, for many years, been attempting to develop this type of aircraft. Some_experi- mentation has been done even in the United States, but insofar as is known in the United States at the present time, there have never been any practical developments. As a second factor of consideration, QQ stated thet insofar as is known to U. S, scientists at this time, there is no known chemical fuel wiich would make oe possible tremendous range of flight such as is ‘ascribed to the reported. "flying ae discs." According t there is only one possible fuel which could be h 7c _ wtilized which is in accord with present. theory, and that is the utilization of atomic energy. OO es He stated that this subject matter was being given absolutely no disseminatic papeaammogealy a _ by the air force or other military. personnel, and that they had not deemed it ee advisable to advis& him of all information pertaining to this type missile. He 7 continued, however; that in 1 his conversation with representatives at Wright Field Z and in reading reports retumed to this country by foreign agents, he had gathered oe together certain information which might be of assistence in determining whether or i not these so-called missiles were authentic, usable and of danger to the United Stat: