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The Hottel Memo · 1950 FBI Memorandum on Flying Saucers

JUN 14 · 2026Narrated by daily-declassified-hottel-pilot5 min

On March twenty-second, nineteen-fifty, a Special Agent in Charge in the FBI's Washington Field Office typed a one-page memo to Director J. Edgar Hoover. It is one page long. Three short paragraphs. And for seventy-five years, it has been one of the most-requested documents in the FBI's public…

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