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FBI Vault: UFO files and the Hottel memo

The FBI's online reading room includes its 1940s and 1950s flying-saucer file and a one-page 1950 memo from agent Guy Hottel passing on a third-hand story about three saucers and small bodies recovered in New Mexico. The memo became the most viewed page in the Vault.

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Why it matters

The Hottel memo is endlessly shared as "proof". The FBI itself says it was an unverified tip it never investigated.

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