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Off Memorandum - UNITED STaixo OVERNMENT. Director, FBI DATE: Februany™ 185-1949 ~~ . te Knoxville aA, OBJECT: “FLYING SAUCERS" OBSERVED OVER OAK RIDGE AREA INTERNAL SECURITY - xX ya ns Reference is made to Knoxville letter to the Director dated ponwary 105. 1949, entitled as above. There is being forwarded for the Bureau's information a copy_of oetem a letter from Colonel C. D. GASSER, USAF, AMC Engineering Field me Officer, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to Mr. G. J. RATHMAN, Security Division, U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, Oak Ridge. This letter is self explanatory and reveals that the photographs forwarded with referenced letter are the result of accident or purposeful hoax and are not actually photographs of a "flyiig saucer". Colonel GASSER personally advise? that while the photographs are not real, his statements mie concerning the existence of flying saucers and the opinions ®xpressed by him nevertheless stand as previously stated. CCMcS: jjc / 4 65-11 Sq Le - / BNCLOSURE ATTACHED —" Enclosure A