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# U. S. Department of Justice

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First Presbyterian Church
REV. CHARLES C. BARNES, PASTOR
Box 391
McKinebille, Oregon

January 31, 1949

61899

Mr. J. Edgar Hoover
Washington D.C.

Dear Mr. Hoover:

Here is a bit of information which may be of great significance, or may be merely an observation of a scientific experiment. It may be known by military authorities and the A.E.C. or only a few may have seen it and none reported it to the right place. Here it is. Can you pass it to the right persons?

Last May one afternoon I saw four beams in the sky passing from the northwest to the southeast and converging in the Cascade mounta
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Reverend Charles C. Barnes
First Presbyterian Church
Box 391
McMinnville, Oregon

Dear Mr. Barnes:

I have received your letter of January 31, 1949, and want to thank you for sending the information with reference to the matter you mentioned. It was indeed thoughtful of you to communicate with me in this connection.

Sincerely yours,

John Edgar Hoover
Director

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CONFIDENTIAL
BY SPECIAL MESSENGER

Date: March 3, 1949

To: Director of Special Investigations
The Inspector General
Department of the Air Force
The Pentagon
Washington 25, D. C.

From: John Edgar Hoover - Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation

Subject: AERIAL PHENOMENA

A letter has been received from Reverend Charles E. Barnes of McKinnville, Oregon, advising that last May he observed four beams of light in the sky passing from the northwest to the southeast and converging over the Cascade Mountains. In these beams small clouds were forming. According to Rev

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