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Office “Memorandum e UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT t : Director, FBI DATE: 8/2/50 OM : SAC, Louisville SUBJECT: AL . HIXENBAUGH's’ Photographs of dying Saucers ; INFORMATION CONCERNING On June 28, 1950, the Louisville Times, a newspaper of circulation published at Lotisville, Kentucky, carried a two column cut showing three frames of a movie camera film of what purported to be a moving picture of a flying saucer. The photo- graphs, taken by ALF (AL) HIXENBAUGH, Times staff photographer, were taken, HIXENBAUGH said, on a 16 mm magazine-loading movie camera, The news article, accompanying the photographs, stated HIXENBAUGH took 50 feet of film in which "the. bright flying object shows clearly." The photographer, according to the article, was at Longest and Everett Avenues near his home, 2205 Longest, at 4:15 p.m., June 27, 1950, on his way to take some moving pictures of birds. The article relates that. HIXENBAUGH "suddenly heard the roar of a big plane -- a twin-motored DC-3 -- and glanced over- head. At first he thought it was a jet plane then he looked to the west of the plant, which was flying southwest toward Standi- ford Field -- and saw the large disk. It had a slight corona around it and seemed to be lower than the plane.” According to AUGH, the object appeared “motionless for about ten seconds i egan to got smaller, finally vanishing in’ the west." The article notes that while the "saucer" appeared on all the film HIXENBAUGH took, 2 the picture field quickly, appearing on’only about 10 feet. HIXENBAUGH, accord- i to the article, advised military officers at Godman Field who in.turn notified flight headquarters at Wright-Patterson Field. A copy of the newspaper article and photographs are being forwarded to the Bureau as enclosures, e A subsequent: newspaper article stat he rep of the military would fly to Louisville to examine tk lms. In addition #g being-printed in the Louisville Times, the movie film taken by HIXHNBAUGH was carried on a national television network and received national Gemment’from WALTER WINCHELL. HIXENBAUGH has received tele- phonic and writhen queries concerning subject matter of the picture uTe/hp & Fs io sega RECO: 20,-118