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# First Presbyterian Church

REV. CHARLES C. BARNES, PASTOR

Box 391

McMinnville, Oregon

January 31, 1949

Mr. J. Edgar Hoover
Washington D.C.

61899

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 itto the rig~t persons?

# First Presbyterian Church (cont.)

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.

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.

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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 on information and id~as that might incite warlike attitudes.

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these words to paragraph two. The explosion effect

seemed to rise to a height of about ten thousand feet.

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Dear Mr. Barnes:

I have received your letter of January 31, 1949, and want to thank you for sending the information with reference to the matter you mentioned. It was indeed thoughtful of you to communicate with me in this connection.

Sincerely yours,

John Edgar Hoover
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A letter baé bon received from Reverend Chutes formen.f Helmille. Or, advitag that last Ny be observed four banne of light in the dy paedic from the nortinnast to the southeast and converging avar the Cencade Mountains. In these beana mall clouds were forming. According to Reverend Barons, where these beans not an explosive effect cap to be gean. Tie the viiable for sporadimtely tan cometes. @xplosive offect onened to rise to a height of about 10,000 feat.

Reverend Bases requested that this infotation be passed on as he felt ab udght be carely en cheervation of a actmtifie @payizent known to the nilitary authon or the Atomie Phergy Condisdom.

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