PURSUE Release 03 — DFBI Correspondence Referral 1949 (FBI-UAP-D011)
Source: U.S. Department of War, PURSUE (Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters) — Release 03 (third tranche), published 12 June 2026. Document FBI-UAP-D011.
URL: release portal https://www.war.gov/UFO/release/03/ · bundle https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/061226/release_03/release_03_documents.zip (file: FBI-UAP-D011_DFBI-Correspondence-Referral_1949.pdf)
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What this is: DFBI Correspondence Referral 1949. Index/analysis: pursue-release-03-uap-records.
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REV. CHARLES C. BARNES, PASTOR Box 391
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Dear Mr. Hoover:
Here is a bit of information which may be of great signi
ficance, or may be merely an observation of a sientific experi
ment. It may be known by military authorities and the AoEoC. 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 rigt persons?
Last May one afternoon I saw four beam in the sky passing
from the northwest to the southeast and converging in the
Cascade mountains. In those four narrow beams small slou.d§ vvere
forming. And where the beams met apparently against the mountains
a great explosion effect was to be seen. I wou~d say that· they
were visible for at least 10 minutes or longer.
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The sight brought to mind an article read before the war about experiments carried on in Europe with various types of radio beams to effect rainfall. I would guess that I had seen the article. in the Science Digest.
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The Columbia River flood of last summer and the unusual
precipitation this winter have forced me to_feel that this
observation of mine should be sent somewhere in the interest
of national security.
I have one son in the Air Corand anothercwbtkg with the
A.E.C. at Hanford which causes me to ptay for peace,· as weli
as the fact that as a minister I deplore.the waste and tragedy,
of war. That is one reason that I have fefrained from passing
on information and idas that might incite warlike attitudes.
May I add these words to paragraph two. The explosion effect
seemed to rise to a height of about ten thousand feet.
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