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. . . | -~» UNITED STATES . 7 “MENT a? Memorandum - : vo : DIRECTOR, FBI pare: 10/19/66 cif da SAC, SAN FRANCISCO (62-2927). * «, & SuBECT: UNIDENTIFIED PLYING/ OBJECTS Is -X —— : Tt Re Bureau Bulletins No. 57 dated 10/2/47, and No. be op 38 dated 3/25/89, entitled "FLYING Discs," - . j Enclosed are copies of an article entitled "Armed ’ Forees - Focus on UFO", which was published in the This World aaa \ Supplement of the San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle, Sunday, \ . Oe¢tober 16, 1946. This article deals with the current conbroaversy over the existence or nonexistence of Flying saucers or Unidentified Flying Objgeets (UFOs), and quotes Michigan's Con:ressional i, Representative GERALD FORD as suggesting that Coneress look x anto UFOs; also it anneunces that the Air Fores, waiich is charged with investingeting UFOs, has commissioned the Univer~ sity. of Colorado.and Physics Professor EDWARD U;{COUNDON to S conduct an inedepth study of flyiis sgquckrs for the next 18 : months, at an estimated cost of $300, q00. a The article also points out that sinee last summer t pressure has been mounting for the establishment of an inde- , pendent, civilian controlled investigative agency to look into }- the UFO problem, tt Also, for the Bureau's information, there was re- ‘ cently published (first printing June 1966) a book entitlea *% tying Saucers - Serious Business", Lyle Stuart, Ine., ‘yl publisuers, authored by Frank Edwards, Tais book is nay in Ate third edition and is available in paperback, published by Bantam Books, and it is probably a contributing factor to the current controversy. | ‘ a 4 , In this book author Edwards points out that fiying > ‘gaucers were observed in the spring of 1946, in Scandinavia and Russin (which he points out is about a year from the date \, \,of the testing of the Alamegora atomic bomb), and the book " \ ie LO 3; Bureau (gree, 3JENC : oat f REE 1 le of - x 3k) f ¥ it~ Denver (Encl, qe is San Francisco 2 sims CT 21 Ws Mb ce oe EX-114 ~— . 2 re Sr, cc ater Ba aa eae SP Sg NO a a Bhi age ale GME rates miata ge helen Praag BN Nie RC RE Se gt