Dfbi Correspondence Referral 1949

Summary

Document FBI-UAP-D011 is a four-page FBI record containing a January 31, 1949 letter from Reverend Charles Barnes, a pastor, addressed to J. Edgar Hoover in Washington, D.C. Barnes reported that the previous May he had watched four narrow beams of light pass from the northwest to the southeast and converge against the Cascade Mountains, where an explosion-like effect was visible for at least ten minutes, which he likened to prewar European experiments with radio beams intended to produce rainfall. Citing the Columbia River flood and unusual precipitation, he asked that his observation be handled in the interest of national security.