Santa Rosa Isl., Fla., November 1949November 1949

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Summary

This file describes a December 1949 investigation by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations into a claim made in California, not a normal sky sighting. A motion picture actor in Beverly Hills told the FBI that a man he met at a country club claimed to own a magnetic radio that came from a flying disc that had crashed in New Mexico.

The man was said to claim that several discs had crashed in New Mexico, Arizona, and another state, that the discs had contained men, and that he had bits of cloth from the men's clothing and pieces of metal from the discs' gears. He described the radio as about 7 by 2 by 2 inches and said it was used to find oil deposits in the ground.

Investigators tried for several weeks to reach the man, who was tied to an oil company in Denver and was staying at a Hollywood hotel. He never responded to messages. The report notes a local radio commentator had ridiculed the story on the air, which may have explained why the man would not respond. The case was closed. The related record card lists the conclusion as a planet.

Reported location

Santa Rosa Isl., Fla., November 1949

Date of incident

November 1949

State / country

? / XX

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 6

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