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_eaoanromte 04 ? Office peste * UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : Mr. Ladd ob ‘ DATE: March 1h, 1919 FROM Tolson Mr. Fletcher 2/7 T cisvia pUBIEGIS FLYING DISCS F nhac Said PURPOSE The approval of the ExecutivesConference is requested for the attached SAC letter furnishing to the field the type of information desired by the Intelligence Division of the Air Force in connection with the captioned matter. BACKGROUND You will recall that by Bureau Bulletin #57, Series 197, dated October 1, 197, the field was advised that effective as of that date the Bureau had discontinued its investigative activities in connection with flying discs. The field was advised that all future reports concerning this matter received in the field should be referred to the Air Forces. Colonel C. D. Gasser, Resident Ingineer, Air Materiel Command, Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft Research, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, has recently and confidentially advised the Bureau that flying discs are believed by the Air Force to be man-made missiles rather than some natural phenomenon and that as much as four years ago it was learned that some type of flying discs were being experimented upon by the Russians. It was further determined from Colonel Gasser that most all of the flying discs seen by persons in the United States approached this country from a northerly direction and returned in the same direction, ‘indicating the strong possibility that they are coming from Russia. The Department of the Air Force has furnished to the Bureau a sufficient number of copies of a memorandum dated Rbruary 15, 199 captioned "Unconventional Aircraft" which can be furnished to our field offices. STATUS At the present time this Bureau is + conduct naia2Sriettigation of information received in the field relating to the captioned, eg re 4 RECOMMENDATION It is recommended that the attached SAC letter and enclosure be forwarded to the field to advise them of the type of questions to be asked of persons who voluntarily submit information relative to "flying discs." Although no active investigation will be conducted by the Bureau, it is believed that the captioned matter is of sufficient importance to the internal security~of the country that our field offices should secure as much information as possible from compainants in order to assist the De . mew tt Segngce Attachment Ke