Which FBI record mentions Peter Camerlon Jones writing to Walter Winchell about a silver object shaped like a child's top in mountains near Los Angeles?

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Which FBI record mentions Peter Camerlon Jones writing to Walter Winchell about a silver object shaped like a child's top in mountains near Los Angeles?

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The record mentioning Peter Camerlon Jones writing to Walter Winchell is FBI headquarters file **62-HQ-83894, Section 5, Serials 186-245**. A teletype dated July 12, 1949, directed to the SAC in Los Angeles, states that Jones, whose address was listed on West Thirty-Seventh Street in Los Angeles, had written to Walter Winchell reporting that in August 1947 he was hiking in the mountains near Los Angeles and observed "a large silver metal object shaped like a child's top about the size of a balloon" approximately one half block away. Jones stated he waved at the object and within a second it took off, knocking him to the ground [62-HQ-83894/7e7776ce-fbe9-47f9-ad24-a93fe5139474]. D. M. Ladd directed the Los Angeles field office to discreetly check Jones's background and then interview him. A follow-up teletype dated July 18, 1949, from the Los Angeles office reported that efforts to identify or locate Jones were negative. The FBI subsequently wrote to Ernest Cuneo on July 21, 1949, suggesting the original letter may have been a prank [62-HQ-83894/7e7776ce-fbe9-47f9-ad24-a93fe5139474].