The FBI released even more UFO files today, May 8, and they are filled with the exact kind of juicy details that make you want to play the X-Files theme on loop.
The files are available through the FBI’s public Vault. They cover the bureau’s findings and investigations on UFO reports from 1947 and 1954. That’s a time period where UFO reports were extremely popular in the United States. The archive is split into 16 parts, including memos, letters, clippings, and field office reports.
So, let’s answer the question that you probably have right now: what’s the wildest thing found in the report? It’s actually a memo from July 8, 1947, titled “A Memorandum of Importance.” Note that it was not written as an official FBI conclusion, which is important to remember. Still, the claims are so crazy that everyone keeps talking about them online.
The FBI’s UFO Files Include Claims About Giant Human-Like Beings, Flying Saucers, and Interdimensional Visitors
The memo was supposedly obtained by “so-called supernatural means,” so keep that in mind when you’re reading this.
The memo says that flying discs allegedly carried crews, while others were controlled remotely. It also claims that visitors were “human-like but much larger in size” and that they did not come from another planet in the normal sense. It describes them as coming from an “etheric planet” that allegedly overlaps with ours, but it is not something that we can see. The beings from said planet supposedly “materialize” when they enter our “dense matter,” and the discs they arrive on can disintegrate ships here on earth.
There are also more reports that, while a little more believable, are still quite strange. One memo from August 1947 describes a school-aged boy from Norfolk, Virginia named Billy Turnetine who allegedly photographed a large black object moving “rapidly” through the sky. Turnetine claimed that the object was much higher than planes and moved faster than any aircraft he’d ever seen.
The famous Guy Hottel memo from 1950 is also here. That is a recount of a third-party claim that states three “flying saucers” were recovered in New Mexico. The FBI has clarified that the memo is not proof of a UFO crash, but simply a memo the FBI received.
So, is there proof of aliens in the files? Not really, no. But they do prove that we, as a society, have been fascinated by aliens for a long, long time. And even crazier, we’ve believed so passionately that we’ve seen them with our own eyes that we reported our findings to the FBI… like, a lot.
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