TO TERRIFIC HEAT. THESE SCIENTISTS ARE TREATING
THIS MATTER AS CLASSIFIED INFORMATION. MR. ____ ____ AT WEST RINDGE,
N.H. IS ALSO ENDEAVORING TO COLLECT ADDITIONAL FRAGMENTS AND HAS STATED
THAT THE FIRE CHIEF AT WEST RINDGE HAS ALSO SEVERAL FRAGMENTS IN HIS
POSSESSION. ____ INDICATED THAT THE ____ RESIDENCE IS SEVEN TO EIGHT
HUNDRED FEET EAST OF THE RAILROAD TRACKS. ____STATED HE WILL MAKE THE
RESULTS OF MIT RESEARCH AVAILABLE IF SIGNIFICANT. OPINIONS OF
SCIENTISTS AS SET FORTH ABOVE SUGGEST POSSIBLE MILITARY INTEREST.
MILITARY AUTHORITIES AT BOSTON HAVE NOT BEEN NOTIFIED.

SOUCY

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64

_Office Memorandum_ . UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

TO : DIRECTOR, FBI DATE: July 18, 1947

FROM : SAC, NEW HAVEN

SUBJECT: "FLYING SAUCERS"
EDWIN M. BAILEY, JR.
STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT, INFORMANT
ATOMIC ENERGY ACT

For the information of the Bureau this is to advise that on July 7,
1947, ____ Stamford, Connecticut, appeared at the Stamford Resident
Agent's office and furnished the following information:--

____ prefaced his remarks by stating that he is a scientist by
occupation and is currently employed at the American Cyanamid Research
Laboratories on West Main Street in Stamford, Connecticut, in the
Physics Division. ____ further indicated that during the war he was
employed at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the Radiation Laboratory
which Laboratory is connected with the Manhattan Project. ____ advised
that he is thirty years of age and is a graduate of the University of
Arizona.

____ stated that the topic of "flying saucers" had caused considerable
comment and concern to the present day scientists and indicated that he
himself had a personal theory concerning the "flying saucers". Prior to
advancing his own theory, ____remarked that immediately after the
conclusion of World War II, a friend of his, ____ allegedly observed
the "flying saucers" from an observatory in Milan and Bologna, Italy.
He stated that apparently at that time the "flying saucers" had caused
a little comment in Italy but that after some little publicity they
immediately died out as public interest. ____ stated that it is quite
possible that actually the "flying saucers" co