Havre, Montana, 1947: homem diz ter visto um "disco" de 17 pés voar, feito por um inventor

July 31, 1952. Major General John Sanford, War Department, Washington, D.C. Sir: General Sanford everybody is taling about the flying saucers I don't know how I ever got enough nerve to write you but I think it is my turn now to put in my nickels worth. As one serviceman to another I think I can talk frank with you. I think I know the man who is responsible for the flying saucers, it is a long story but I will try to make it as brief as possible. In 1929 at an inventor's meeting in Long Beach in the Rainbow Pier I met a man who called himself, at that time, Samuel P. Jones he had a motor that everyone thought was a fake. He would explain it to you but no one would believe him but me. So as a dumb cluck I tried to give the man a helping hand, he said that this motor could be made in any size or horsepower, could be put in ships, locomotives, cars and airplanes. At that time I knew a doctor in Long Beach who had a clinic and a yacht, I took this Jones to this doctor thinking that this doctor might finance him for a motor for his yacht. After the doctor talked to the man awhile, the doctor didn't beieve him, thought he was nuts, so then I forgot all about this man Jones until World War II. I met this same man in the South Pacific and he was a Skipper in the Army Transport Service. Then after seeing him again and knowing the position he held I took it for granted that he must be pretty smart, not nuts. I became very friendly with this man we chummed together for a coule of years in the South Pacifica and every once in awhile he would tak about his invention. I asked him if this invention was so good why is it that the Government wouldn't take it. This is what he told me, that he had tried to get the Government to take it and they laughed at him and he finally got an interview with President Roosevelt and the President told him that at that time he also had an idea before Congress that if it didn't work out they would all go to the insane asylum. He also told him that his idean was a thousand years ahead of time. Later in 1947 I got a letter from this Jones asking me to come to him, which I did, in Havre, Montana he had a plane that I would call built with this motor, this was the most damnable looking plane I have ever seen. It was made like a saucer, about 17 feet in diameter and it would fly through the air with a control made from the base of a telephone. This I saw with my own eyes. He said that it would fly so fast through the air that the air would melt, and I asked him "how fast will it go", he said actually he didn't know but would figure it made a speed of 3 to 4000 miles per hour.

COPY. Major General John Sanford, July 31, 1952, Page 2. Again, I asked him why he didn't do something about it and he said it was impossible. I also, asked him why he didn't patent this machine and he gave me many reasons, that each and every part about the machine had already been invented and it would take a millionaire to procure the patent rights to this invention. I also asked him wasn't he afraid that someone would steal it from him and he told me that the public was funny that they couldn't see no further than the nose on their face and that if you had a secret that you wanted to keep to tell everybody and nobody would believe you. About three months later I received a letter from this man telling me that he was ready to make a test, a few days later was the first time I heard about the flying saucers. Since that time I have received many letters from this man Jones. About three weeks ago I received a letter from him again telling me that over Baltimore, Washington, Alexander Virginia, etc., that he was going to let the whole world know that his invention was possible. Then I went to the American Broadcasting Company, a couple of newspapers and tried to tell them this story. They wouldn't even listen to me and it has happened again. If this man Jones is not the inventor of the flying saucer how is it that he knows two or three weeks ahead of time when they are going to fly? I think that if you will find this man Jones, I know you will get this fantastic story straightened out. His address I do not know but he writes me to my box in Detroit, Michigan and I receive a letter maybe two or three weeks later. When I saw the plane or whatever you want to call it, in the air, it would go so fast you would hardly see it. It was round like a saucer, had a tail like a plane, and when it would sway (as I would say) in the air sometimes it would look like a pencil, sometimes like a egg, and again it would look like a balloon so you take it from here. Use your own judgment, you have my permission to do anything you want with this letter. My name is H. D. Springer, I have no permanent address but I live in Detroit, I am going back east tonight at 9 o'clock P.M. Sincerely yours, H. D. Springer

[RESTRICTED] (Unclassified) Correspondence Concerning "Flying Saucers". Counter Intelligence Div., Director of Special Investigations, The Inspector General. Deputy Director for Estimates, Directorate of Intelligence, DCS/O. [stamp: SEP 2 1952] Maj Fournet, AFOIN-2A2. 1. Inclosure 1 is forwarded for possible investigative action. Since Mr. Springer gives no address, it is impossible to correspond with him and ask for additional information. Therefore, it is requested that steps be taken to have Mr. Springer located and questioned in order to determine (a) the reliability of the information in Inclosure 1, (b) the credibility of his informer, one Samuel P. Jones, and (c) any additional information which may have a relation to the intelligence investigation and analysis of "flying saucers". If Mr. Springer's claims in his last paragraph have any foundation whatsoever, it could have an important bearing on the project. 2. Inclosure 2 is forwarded for your information and any action considered appropriate. The clipping referred to was not recieved. 2 Incls: 1. Ltr fr H.D. Springer dtd 31 July 52 2. Ltr fr Anonymous not dtd. /s/ William W. Wilcox, Colonel, USAF, Chief, Policy and Management Group. [handwritten index: X095 Jones, Samuel P.; X095 Springer, H.D.; X350.05 Projects]

[RESTRICTED] MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD. PROBLEM: 1. To prepare R&R to OSI. FACTS AND DISCUSSION: 2. In a personal letter to General Samford, Mr. H. D. Springer conveys information concerning the activities of one Samuel P. Jones who has professed complete knowledge of the "flying saucers". According to Mr. Springer, this Mr. Jones predicted the recent appearance of unidentified objects over Washington, D.C. and vicinity some time before it occurred. It is desired to have Mr. Springer contacted to determine certain information bearing on Project Blue Book. 3. Another letter of anonymous origin intimates that there is some unusual activity on a movie set in California. It is desired to refer this letter to OSI for any action they consider warranted. 4. The R&R will accomplish the referrals mentioned above. 5. Subject matter will not be included in the Daily Staff Digest. ACTION RECOMMENDED: 6. Approval, signature and forwarding of attached R&R. COORDINATION: Col I. W. Wolfe, AFOIN-2A2; Col W. A. Adams, AFOIN-2A; Col J. J. Morrow, AFOIN-2.