Part 26 of a series reassessing the documentary record behind the 1933 Magenta narrative. TL;DR Frank Scully published stories about recovered saucers and small bodies in 1949, months before the two March 1950 FBI memos. An Air Force message from January shows investigators following a published version of the rumor. The March 31 memo names Silas Newton as a storyteller. The March 22 Hottel memo traces a similar account through a police investigator, Karl Howe. Howe’s informant remains uniden...