A twosome of years ago , the FBI freaked out UFOlogists by making a net ton of former documents public online — one of which was a memo broadcast to J. Edgar Hoover about a man who had seen fly saucers . It is the most democratic papers in theFBI Vault , accessed almost a million times .
The memo was write by broker Guy Hottel , and is now often dubbed the Hottel Memo . Now the FBI has stepped forwards to excuse the connection between this memoranda and your best-loved conspiracy theory .
First , read the memohere .
On the FBI Vault web log , the agency explains the now - infamous memo :
First , the Hottel memo is n’t new . It was first release in public in the late seventies and had been put up on the FBI site for several years prior to the launch of the Vault .
secondly , the Hottel memo is go steady well-nigh three geezerhood after the ill-famed event in Roswell in July 1947 . There is no understanding to think the two are connect . The FBI single file on Roswell ( another pop page ) is postedelsewhere on the Vault .
Third , as mention inan earlier tale , the FBI has only now and then been involved in investigating reports of UFOs and extraterrestrial being . For a few years after the Roswell incident , Director Hoover did rank his agents — at the request of the Air Force — to verify any UFO sightings . That practice end in July 1950 , four calendar month after the Hottel memo , suggesting that our Washington Field Office did n’t think enough of that flying saucer floor to look into it .
Finally , the Hottel memo does not shew the existence of UFO ; it is simply a second- or third - hand claim that we never investigated . Some people trust the memoranda repeats a hoax that was pass on at that clip , but the Bureau ’s Indian file have no data to affirm that possibility .
So nobody at the agency thought it was deserving follow up on the memoranda , but it was n’t colligate to a hoax . countenance the next beat of confederacy theories start .
say more at theFBI Vault .
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