Virgínia Ocidental, 1952: duas cartas a Hoover pedem que não se divulguem os locais onde os discos são vistos

[Typed letter on yellow paper. Stamps: RECORDED - 29; file number 62-83894-291; EX-25] August 14, 1952 Mrs. Fred Haufe [address omitted] Fairmont, West Virginia Dear Mrs. Haufe: I have received your letter of August 1, 1952, and want to thank you for making the information contained therein available to this Bureau. The matter referred to in your letter is not within the jurisdiction of this Bureau and I have taken the liberty of forwarding a copy of your letter to the Department of the Air Force for appropriate action. Sincerely yours, John Edgar Hoover Director EHM:kc cc - 1 - Pittsburgh (Enclosure) NOTE: Bureau files fail to reflect any information that can be identified with Mrs. Haufe. [Stamps: received in FBI Aug 13, 1952; COMM-FBI, mailed Aug 14, 1952; Aug 20, 1952]

[Reverse of the reply letter: FBI stamps of August 1952 and traces of mirrored text from the other side; nothing legible.]

[Typed letter. Printed letterhead at top right with the sender's address and telephone number [omitted]. Margin notes: "RA"; "Mrs. Fred Haufe"; "8-13-52 Ltr to Mrs. Haufe, Ltr to OSI". Stamps: RECORDED - 36; INDEXED - 36; AUG 5 1952; file number 62-83894-291] August 1, 1952 Hon. J. Edgar Hoover Dept. F.B.I. Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: I have been hearing so much about the objects called Flying Saucers that I begin to speculate as to whether we are the only Nation or county to witness such a display. Of course it could be that those odd objects are pest filled Radar controlled waiting to be punctured. We have been so accused by another Nation that no doubt they have devised some diabolical plan to test on us. I am not inclined to pass those over lightly, because I believe that those gadgets can be made and controlled to the extent of great numbers in groupings. Also, I believe it is very unwise to make public the locations of sightings as many folk are prone to worry, and a state of mind like this is exactly what our enemy is seeking. Any one wise enuf to perfect such would not only know their travel distance but also their location, therefore no talk or publications could benefit us in that. I hope that someone has had the integrity and foresight to learn where if in any other country these 'things' have been seen. Thanking you in advance for the courtesy of a reply, I remain Respectfully yours, Mrs. Fred T. Haufe

[Reverse of the letter of August 1: FBI stamps of August 1952 and traces of mirrored text; nothing legible.]

[Handwritten letter, one sheet. Margin notes: "Flying Saucers"; stamps RECORDED - 118, INDEXED - 118, EX-130; file number 62-83894-293; stamps of Aug 7 and Aug 13, 1952; FBI note on an incomplete return address [uncertain reading].] Winding Gulf W.Va. Aug 5 1952 Mr Edgar Hoover a few lines to let you know a few things that the Government should know for all of US sakes P.s. stop the people from Broad casting how far those flying saucers are going and where they are seeing them at. the reason Russia is inventing some thing

that is coming over here by radio activity and later they will be sending the atomic Bomb over here so try to stop them. they are now getting the distance and they send out one and then our people tells where they see at and that is all they want to know. later on they will send suicide planes without air pilots here to bomb. Mergie M. Taylor [Name repeated in the margin in another hand: "Mergie M. Taylor"]