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"Office Memorandum - UNITED STaixceo OVERNMENT. > oa ¢ “SUBJECT: Director, FBI DATE: Februany™185:-1949 SAC, Knoxville a) “FLYING SAUCERS" OBSERVED OVER OAK RIDGE AREA INTERNAL SECURITY - X He. ios, Reference is made to Knoxville letter to the Director dated January 105 1949, entitled as above. There is being forwarded for the Bureau's information a copy of a letter from Colonel C. D. GASSER, USAF, AMC Engineering Field ~~ Officer, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to Mr. G. J. RATHMAN, Security Division, U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, Oak Ridge. This letter is self explanatory and reveals that the photographs forwarded with referenced letter are the result of accident or purposeful hoax and are not actually photographs of a "flying saucer". | Colonel GASSER personally advised that while the photographs are not real, his statements mie concerning the existence of flying saucers and the opinions 2xpressed by him nevertheless stand as previously stated. CCMcS: Jjjc 65-11 ENCLOSURE ATTACHED Enclosure pesnnnn® v XX eg