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FBI-UAP-D011: D/FBI Correspondence Referral, 1949

This released document records that rev. Charles Barnes observed four beams of light converging in the Cascade Mountains with a great explosion visible at the convergence point. The file preserves the source account or analysis but does not independently establish interpretations beyond the cited record. This document is useful as an officially released artifact because it preserves the file's provenance and lets its claims be compared with related Release 03 records.

File
Document · Release 03
Date
1949
Extent
4 pages
Agency
FBI

Probed Assessment

This released document records that rev. Charles Barnes observed four beams of light converging in the Cascade Mountains with a great explosion visible at the convergence point. The file preserves the source account or analysis but does not independently establish interpretations beyond the cited record.

Key takeaways

  • The source states that rev. Charles Barnes observed four beams of light converging in the Cascade Mountains with a great explosion visible at the convergence point.
  • The source states that director Hoover forwarded Rev. Barnes' letter to the Atomic Energy Commission.
  • The source states that rev. Barnes believed the observed event may relate to a military or scientific experiment.

Why it matters

This document is useful as an officially released artifact because it preserves the file's provenance and lets its claims be compared with related Release 03 records.

Corroboration

The release metadata and stored source material corroborate the file's provenance. Reported sightings, interpretations, and allegations remain attributed to the source unless independently supported by the cited evidence.

Open questions

  • • What additional contemporaneous records or independent evidence could test the source account?

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Official Description from War.gov

This collection of documents contains correspondence between the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), J. Edgar Hoover, and Rev. Charles Barnes concerning Barnes’ account of an incident potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). Rev. Barnes described observing four beams of light “converging in the Cascade Mountains,” at an altitude of approximately 10,000 feet, with a “great explosion” visible at the convergence point of those beams for at least ten minutes. Director Hoover replied to Rev. Barnes thanking him for his letter and informing him that he had forwarded it to the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). Director Hoover conveyed to the AEC that Rev. Barnes believed that the event may relate to a military or scientific experiment within the commission’s purview.

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File Context

Related entities

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Research Map relationships require row-level claim or timeline references.

Tracker findings

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Director Hoover forwarded Rev. Barnes' letter to the Atomic Energy Commission

The record states: Director Hoover forwarded Rev. Barnes' letter to the Atomic Energy Commission.

Release provenance

Release
Release 03
Official ID
release-03-file-007-fbi-uap-d011-d-fbi-correspondence-referral-1949
Cleared
Jun 12, 2026
Official release source

Referenced Timeline

  1. Page 2

    Observation of beams of light by Rev. Barnes

    Rev. Barnes observes beams of light converging in the Cascade Mountains with an explosion effect.

    LinkedCascade Mountains
  2. Page 2

    Rev. Charles Barnes writes to J. Edgar Hoover

    Rev. Barnes describes his observation of beams of light and an explosion in the Cascade Mountains.

    LinkedCascade MountainsRev. Charles BarnesJ Edgar Hoover

Source Claims

Claims are attributed to the released source and remain distinct from Probed’s assessment and tracker findings.

Reported by source3Source interpretation1
Source reportedAssertedPage 2
Open page

Rev. Charles Barnes observed four beams of light converging in the Cascade Mountains with a great explosion visible at the convergence point.

Last May one afternoon I saw four beam~ in the sky passing from the northwest to the southeast and converging in the Cascade mountains. In those four narrow beams small slou.d§ vvere forming. And where the beams met apparently against the mountains a great explosion…

LinkedCascade MountainsRev. Charles Barnes
Source reportedObservedPage 2
Open page

Rev. Charles C. Barnes asked J. Edgar Hoover to pass his reported observation to the appropriate authorities.

Can you pass it to the right persons?

LinkedAtomic Energy Commission
InterpretationAssertedPage 2
Open page

Rev. Barnes believed the observed event may relate to a military or scientific experiment.

Here is a bit of information which may be of great signi­ ficance, or may be merely an observation of a sientific experi­ ment.

Source reportedAssertedPage 3
Open page

An FBI routing cover records that the correspondence was mailed in February 1949.

MAILED ... FEB 10, 1949

LinkedFederal Bureau of Investigation

Source Material & Evidence

document

Rev. Charles Barnes' letter to J. Edgar Hoover

RELEASE-03-FILE-007-FBI-UAP-D011-D-FBI-CORRESPONDENCE-REFERRAL-1949

document

Director Hoover's response to Rev. Barnes

RELEASE-03-FILE-007-FBI-UAP-D011-D-FBI-CORRESPONDENCE-REFERRAL-1949

Research Map

9 entities · 3 grounded links

Lines appear only when two entities share a row-level source claim or dated timeline event. Unconnected nodes remain visible without implying a relationship.

UAP/Disclosure Graph
9 nodes3 links