Guy Hottel memorandum: Flying Saucers — Information Concerning (March 22, 1950)
Guy Hottel’s March 22, 1950 memorandum to the FBI Director relays an informant’s account attributed to an Air Force investigator: three circular objects allegedly recovered in New Mexico, each containing three small bodies. It records a proposed connection to high-powered radar interference and explicitly says no further evaluation was attempted. The two-page FBI Vault release contains a cover sheet and the redacted memorandum. It neither names Aztec nor establishes the reported recoveries as fact.
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- Source / agency
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Type
- Memo
- Classification
- Redacted
- Reference #
- 62-83894-209
- Published
- 1950-03-22
- Content Type
- application/pdf
- Pages
- 2
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Hottel’s memorandum relays an investigator’s report that three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico.
An investigator for the Air Forces stated that three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico.
The memorandum describes the reported objects as circular, with raised centers and a diameter of approximately fifty feet.
They were described as being circular in shape with raised centers, approximately 50 feet in diameter.
The memorandum says each reported object contained three human-shaped bodies, about three feet tall, wearing fine metallic cloth.
Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only 3 feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture.
The memorandum compares the reported bodies’ wrapping with blackout suits used by speed flyers and test pilots.
Each body was bandaged in a manner similar to the blackout suits used by speed flyers and test pilots.
The memorandum records the informant’s belief that high-powered radar interfered with the saucers’ controlling mechanism.
the Government has a very high-powered radar set-up in that area and it is believed the radar interferes with the controlling mechanism of the saucers.
The memorandum explicitly records that the FBI agent attempted no further evaluation of the reported information.
No further evaluation was attempted by SA [redacted] concerning the above.
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Hottel sends memorandum to FBI Director
Guy Hottel’s memorandum forwards an informant’s account of alleged New Mexico saucer recoveries and states that no further evaluation was attempted.
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