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FBI UAP D011 DFBI Correspondence Referral 1949

Federal Bureau of Investigation · release 3

This FBI document from 1949 contains a letter from Reverend Charles C. Barnes to J. Edgar Hoover describing an observation of four beams in the sky converging over the Cascade Mountains, with small clouds forming and an "explosion effect" where they met, which he speculated might be related to weather modification experiments.

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