FBI · FBI-UAP-D011
FBI Correspondence Referral, Barnes Letter to Hoover (1949)
This is a 1949 FBI correspondence file built around a handwritten letter from Rev. Charles C. Barnes (signing as a Presbyterian pastor) to Director J.
Key excerpts
“Last May one afternoon I saw four beams in the sky passing from the northwest to the southeast and converging in the Cascade mountains. In those four narrow beams small clouds were forming. And where the beams met apparently against the mountains a great explosion effect was to be seen. I would say that they were visible for at least 10 minutes or longer. (p. 2)”
“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. (p. 2)”
Alternative hypotheses
Atmospheric optical phenomenon
most probable).
Conventional or experimental aviation or contrails
The writer's own hypothesis: deliberate weather-modification or radio-beam experiments
A genuine unidentified event