STANDARD FORM NO. 64
Office Memorandum · UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
| TO | : | DIRECTOR, FBI | DATE: July 18, 1947 |
| FROM | : | SAC, NEW HAVEN | |
| SUBJECT | : | "FLYING SAUCERS" | |
| EDWIN M. BAILEY, JR. | |||
| STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT, INFORMANT | |||
| ATOMIC ENERGY ACT |
For the information of the Bureau this is to advise that on July 7, 1947, ____ Stamford, Connecticut, appeared at the Stamford Resident Agent's office and furnished the following information:—
____ prefaced his remarks by stating that he is a scientist by occupation and is currently employed at the American Cyanamid Research Laboratories on West Main Street in Stamford, Connecticut, in the Physics Division. ____ further indicated that during the war he was employed at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the Radiation Laboratory which Laboratory is connected with the Manhattan Project. ____ advised that he is thirty years of age and is a graduate of the University of Arizona.
____ stated that the topic of "flying saucers" had caused considerable comment and concern to the present day scientists and indicated that he himself had a personal theory concerning the "flying saucers". Prior to advancing his own theory, ____remarked that immediately after the conclusion of World War II, a friend of his, ____ allegedly observed the "flying saucers" from an observatory in Milan and Bologna, Italy. He stated that apparently at that time the "flying saucers" had caused a little comment in Italy but that after some little publicity they immediately died out as public interest. ____ stated that it is quite possible that actually the "flying saucers" could be radio controlled germ bombs or atom bombs which are circling the orbit of the earth and which could be controlled by radio and directed to land on any designated target at the specific desire of the agency or country operating the bombs. He stated that one of the items of interest which he personally has observed is the fact that the saucers have been observed in Mexico City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Halifax, Newfoundland, Paris, Milan, Bologna and Yugoslavia as well as Albania. By placing a string around the globe of the earth it would be noticed that all of the above-mentioned cities form a direct orbit or circle around the earth and would be more or less in line of any path in which the saucers could be circling.
____ further stated that he had recently talked with ____ ____, one of the owners of ____ in Glenbrook, Connecticut, and had been informed by ____ that his company is making a large powerful telescope to be used in searching the stratosphere for atom bombs.
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