Fbi Memo
Unclassified Complete
UAP D011 DFBI Correspondence Referral 1949
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Confidence
75%
Credibility
70%
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Intelligence summary
A correspondence from Rev. Charles C. Barnes to J. Edgar Hoover detailing an observation of four beams in the sky that converged in the Cascade Mountains, potentially indicating a scientific experiment or UAP activity.
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| Location | Context | Confidence | Supporting text |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cascade Mountains | Unknown Context | Unresolved | Location where the beams converged. |
| Cascade Mountains | Unknown Context | Unresolved | Location where the beams converged. |
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Jun 15, 1949
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Dear Mr. Hoover:
Here is a bit of information which may be of great signi
ficance, or may be merely an observation of a sientific experi
ment. It may be known by military authorities and the AoEoC. or
only a few may have seen it and none reported it to the right
place. Here it is. Can you pass it to the rig~t persons?
Last May one afternoon I saw four beam~ in the sky passing
from the northwest to the southeast and converging in the
Cascade mountains. In those four narrow beams small slou.d§ vvere
forming. And where the beams met apparently against the mountains
a great explosion effect was to be seen. I wou~d say that· they
were visible for at least 10 minutes or longer.
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The sight brought to mind an article read before the war
about experiments carried on in Europe with various types of
radio beams to effect rainfall. I would guess that I had seen
the article. in the Science Digest.
The Columbia River flood of last summer and the unusual
precipitation this winter have forced me to_feel that this
observation of mine should be sent somewhere in the interest
of national security.
I have one son in the Air Cor~and anothercwbtkg with the
A.E.C. at Hanford which causes me to ptay for peace,· as weli
as the fact that as a minister I deplore.the waste and tragedy,
of war. That is one reason that I have fefrained from passing
id~as that might incite warlike attitudes.
these words to paragraph two. The explosion effect
a height of about ten thousand feet.
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