Cincinnati, 1952: carta anônima em alemão ao Enquirer diz que o disco voador é uma arma-V com bombas atômicas em mãos russas

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum TO: Director, FBI FROM: SAC, Cincinnati (100-0) DATE: August 6, 1952 SUBJECT: ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION WRITTEN IN GERMAN LANGUAGE RECEIVED BY "CINCINNATI ENQUIRER" PERTAINING TO FLYING SAUCERS SECURITY MATTER Mr. [name illegible] of the staff of the "Cincinnati Enquirer" furnished the Cincinnati Office with the enclosed letter and envelope received anonymously at the "Cincinnati Enquirer" in an envelope postmarked July 1952 at Cincinnati, Ohio. It will be noted that the enclosed letter is written in the German language, and I am also enclosing a rather loose translation of the letter as furnished by the "Cincinnati Enquirer." In view of the widespread interest in so-called "flying saucers," I am forwarding this material to the Bureau, with the thought in mind that the Bureau may desire to have a careful translation made of the attached letter, and the results, if deemed advisable, made available to other governmental agencies. Enclosures (3) DY:IM

[Reverse of the Cincinnati memorandum: FBI stamps of August 1952 and inverted traces of text; nothing legible.]

August 23, 1952 To: Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25, D. C. From: John Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Subject: ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION WRITTEN IN THE GERMAN LANGUAGE, RECEIVED BY THE "CINCINNATI ENQUIRER" PERTAINING TO "FLYING SAUCERS" SECURITY MATTER There is attached for your information and any action you desire to take in this matter a photostat of a letter, written in German, received from an anonymous source, which was addressed to the "Cincinnati Enquirer." A photostat of the envelope, in which the letter was forwarded, is attached and indicates it was mailed on July 31, 1952, at Cincinnati, Ohio. For your further assistance in this matter a translation of the attached letter from the German is attached. [Stamp: AUG 29 1952. Initials and receiving stamps illegible.]

[Reverse of an envelope, orange, with the file number 62-83894-292. No other text.]

[Negative copy (dark background).] [Photostat of a handwritten letter in German, one page, signed "H.Sch."] Fliegende Untertasse. Seit 1944 ausprobierte Waffe welche jetzt wohl schon serienmäßig hergestellt wird und zur Zeit viel von sich reden macht ist eine V. Waffe, welche einen Diskus ähnlichen runden Körper hat, der im Durchmesser etwa 42-50 m Durchmesser hat, am Außenring etwa 45-50 automatische Treibdüsen, die nach Zündung der Scheibe, um eine im Zentrum befindliche Plexiglaskugel kreisen, in der befinden sich die Steuer- und Kontrollgeräte für Fernsteuerung. Innerhalb der Kugel ist noch genug Raum für hochexplosive Atombomben. Diese Waffen befindet sich in Russischer Hand und kann einen Aktionsradius von 30-35000 km aufweisen. V. Waffen Konstrukteur Riedel, Deutschland sagt es ist eine typische V. 7 daran er selbst gearbeitet hat. Ich bin sicher daß die Wahrheit besser ist als eine Taktik unser Volk bei Nichtwissenheit. H.Sch.

[Second negative copy of the same letter.] [Photostat of a handwritten letter in German, one page, signed "H.Sch."] Fliegende Untertasse. Seit 1944 ausprobierte Waffe welche jetzt wohl schon serienmäßig hergestellt wird und zur Zeit viel von sich reden macht ist eine V. Waffe, welche einen Diskus ähnlichen runden Körper hat, der im Durchmesser etwa 42-50 m Durchmesser hat, am Außenring etwa 45-50 automatische Treibdüsen, die nach Zündung der Scheibe, um eine im Zentrum befindliche Plexiglaskugel kreisen, in der befinden sich die Steuer- und Kontrollgeräte für Fernsteuerung. Innerhalb der Kugel ist noch genug Raum für hochexplosive Atombomben. Diese Waffen befindet sich in Russischer Hand und kann einen Aktionsradius von 30-35000 km aufweisen. V. Waffen Konstrukteur Riedel, Deutschland sagt es ist eine typische V. 7 daran er selbst gearbeitet hat. Ich bin sicher daß die Wahrheit besser ist als eine Taktik unser Volk bei Nichtwissenheit. H.Sch.

[Positive copy of the same letter.] [Photostat of a handwritten letter in German, one page, signed "H.Sch."] Fliegende Untertasse. Seit 1944 ausprobierte Waffe welche jetzt wohl schon serienmäßig hergestellt wird und zur Zeit viel von sich reden macht ist eine V. Waffe, welche einen Diskus ähnlichen runden Körper hat, der im Durchmesser etwa 42-50 m Durchmesser hat, am Außenring etwa 45-50 automatische Treibdüsen, die nach Zündung der Scheibe, um eine im Zentrum befindliche Plexiglaskugel kreisen, in der befinden sich die Steuer- und Kontrollgeräte für Fernsteuerung. Innerhalb der Kugel ist noch genug Raum für hochexplosive Atombomben. Diese Waffen befindet sich in Russischer Hand und kann einen Aktionsradius von 30-35000 km aufweisen. V. Waffen Konstrukteur Riedel, Deutschland sagt es ist eine typische V. 7 daran er selbst gearbeitet hat. Ich bin sicher daß die Wahrheit besser ist als eine Taktik unser Volk bei Nichtwissenheit. H.Sch.

FLYING SAUCERS [Loose translation furnished by the Cincinnati Enquirer; the typed text omits the sentence about Russian hands that appears in the German manuscript.] Since 1944 there have been experimental weapons which should now be in production. The one about which there has been much discussion is a V-weapon which has a disc-like round body, about 48-50 metres in diameter and has by way of mission 45 to 50 automatic [word not legible]. With the setting off of the disc these rotate around a sensitive plexi-glass sphere in the center in which are located the [word not legible] and guiding apparatus for distance flights. Inside the sphere there is also enough space for high explosive atom bombs. These weapons [not legible] and show an effective range of from 30 to 35,000 kilometres. V-Weapon Konstrua (Technician?) Riedel (or Riedet), Germany, says it is a typical V-Weapon on which he himself worked. I am positive that the truth is better than keeping the people in ignorance. H. Sch. [Translator's comment, continued on the next page:] This letter is apparently written by a person of little education, with an undeveloped handwriting. It is my opinion that he is not making up what

[...] he has written. If I were handling this I should turn his letter over to the FBI or some other investigating agency to see if he knows anything. August 4, 1952

[Front of the envelope, printed with the newspaper name: "The Cincinnati Enquirer". Postmark of July 1952. The rest is illegible.]

[Reverse of the same envelope, with a handwritten file number, illegible.]

[Negative reproduction of the front of the envelope. Legible text: "The Cincinnati Enquirer".]

[Another negative reproduction of the front of the same envelope. No legible text.]

[Nearly blank reverse with a handwritten file number, illegible.]

,. S'r,AN.OAR•() FORM NO. 64 •Office Memoranduni • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT DATE: August 8, 1952TO : MR. R. T.:., HARED Irg-- Tolson_ _ La.Od.__ cleu__FROM : _7F. DOWNI G~ Olavln __ :.lchola __ SUBJ~Cef ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION WRITTEN kosen__ ERMAN LANGTTAGE RECEIVED BY NCINNATI ENQUIRER" PERTAINING FLYING SAUCERS11 SECURITY MATT"R - X Reference is made to a lette r from the Cincinn ati Office date~ August 6~ 195'2, submitting an anonymous letter in German concerning I so- called "Flying Saucers . 11 Attached are 7 copies of a translation of this German material ~AA~t~ prepared in the Cryptanalys is- Translation Section . ,, y--. ~ • . a No r eply has been made by us to the August 6, 1952 , ·letter .frqm Cincinnati. RECOMMENDATION: That the Domestic Intelligence Division review the Cincinnat i submission and accompanying Bureau translation, for appropriate handling , noti ng parti cularly a suggestion in the last I,,aragraph of the Cincinnati lette r to consider makif!g this informati~ available to other Governmental Agencies . I J X)t.~ • Q 62-83894 . "'K~ ~ ". 'i,1 (,, ;,_ J'Jti"?j- ~ -..:..t.-l;b- [wr- rm:jen \ r,- &~~... \~ Attachm~ 7~ NC\, /}( \ L; ( G 2v • ~a 5 8 SEP 2 1952 '(J f.}(•• 73 J

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F'ly:1..ng ~aucer, a weapon teoted in 19h41 whieh 1a probably now being produced 1n aerie•, and at thia tiae causes a grat stir, ia av-weapon 1'bich has a round body a1lllilar to a disk haYinu a diameter of about 48-$0 m. On the outer ring it has about li5-SO aut.Qalatic circular noseles which after the ignition of tho disk circulate around a plexiglasa :;phere 1:n the cent.er in which. the ea'suri.ng and controllin1 dov:tces !or long-distance steering aro located. In the opbere is still sufficient apace for atom bombs. llhase weapons are in Thlaeian hands and can haw an e.ffect1ve range ot ~.3S,OOO km. ffio conatruotor ot v-weapona FJEDEL 1n German7 atated that it concerns • typical v-weapon on which ho hlld worked b111u1elf. I am aure t.hat tbe truth ie better than a pamc among isnoran t people. 'H. SCH. OPIES DESTROVE D .7 O NOV 19 Hl64