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Chronicle year

1952

1952-08-08 / Savannah River Plant, AEC, South Carolina

On August 9, 1952, the FBI Savannah field office sent an urgent teletype to Director Hoover reporting that two employees of E. I. Du Pont Company saw a blue light with an orange fringe shaped like a saucer fly over the Four Hundred Area of the Savannah River Plant AEC facility at approximately 9:30 PM on August 8. Between August 11 and August 20, 1952, Hoover forwarded letters from multiple citizens about flying saucers and flying disks to the Director of Special Investigations, The Inspector General, Department of the Air Force.

1952-01-01 / Clarksburg, West Virginia

Serial 403 of FBI case 62-HQ-83894 consists of the dust jacket and promotional text from Gray Barker's 1956 book "They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers," published by University Books, Inc. of New York. The jacket text states that flying saucer researchers who challenged government denial were silenced after visits from "three men in dark suits," and that Barker began his research in 1952 after a flying saucer allegedly landed near his home in Clarksburg, West Virginia. Barker is identified as a Clarksburg businessman who also published a flying saucer periodical called The Saucerian.