For 62-HQ-83894 serial 7e7776ce-fbe9-47f9-ad24-a93fe5139474, what did Peter Camerlon Jones claim to have seen near Los Angeles?

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For 62-HQ-83894 serial 7e7776ce-fbe9-47f9-ad24-a93fe5139474, what did Peter Camerlon Jones claim to have seen near Los Angeles?

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According to the file summary for serial 7e7776ce-fbe9-47f9-ad24-a93fe5139474, Peter Camerlon Jones of 164 West 37th Street, Los Angeles, California, claimed to have seen a large silver object shaped like a child's top in the mountains near Los Angeles in August 1947 [62-HQ-83894/7e7776ce-fbe9-47f9-ad24-a93fe5139474]. Jones had written a letter about this to Walter Winchell, which came to the FBI's attention through Ernest Cuneo. D. M. Ladd directed the Los Angeles field office to discreetly check Jones's background and attempt to interview him, but efforts to locate Jones were unsuccessful, and casual inquiry in the vicinity he mentioned did not develop information about anyone acquainted with him [62-HQ-83894/7e7776ce-fbe9-47f9-ad24-a93fe5139474]. On July 21, 1949, the FBI wrote to Cuneo suggesting the original letter may have been a prank.