Declassified FBI Memo on 1960s UFO Sightings: Tiny Crewmen, Polished-Silver Saucers, and Public Fascination

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Declassified FBI files from the 1960s, in a memo to J. Edgar Hoover, recount eyewitness reports of three-and-a-half to four-foot crewmen in space suits, polished saucers that could hover and accelerate, environmental effects and wreckage described as an exceptionally hard metal with thousands of micro spheres, and tie this public fascination—driven by Flying Saucers: Serious Business by Frank Edwards and political pressure from Gerald Ford—to the University of Colorado study led by Edward U. Condon, while officials caution the documents summarize witness accounts and popular literature rather than proving extraterrestrial life.