The Federal Bureau of Investigation decided it was time to explain their most viewed public record from a 1950 incident that recounts a strange story where someone told agents about three "flying saucers" near New Mexico.
The memo was first revealed to the public in the 1970's under the Freedom of Information Act according to Space.com. It has since been viewed approximately 1 million times since 2011 alone, when the FBI decided to launch an online database of public records known as "the Vault."
The memo discusses a story who said an Air Force investigator had "recovered" three separate unidentified space crafts in New Mexico.
Click here to read the full memo online.
"They were described as being circular in shape with raised centres, approximately 50 feet in diameter," said Guy Hottel in the now legendary memo. "Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only three feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture."
Hottel had been the head of the FBI's field office in Washington, D.C. and the memo is addressed to the attention of former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Hottel retired in 1955 when he was only in his early 50's.
FBI officials came out and stated there opinion of the Hottel memo this week.
"(The memo) does not prove the existence of UFOs; it is simply a second- or third-hand claim that we never investigated," said an FBI agent according to Space.com.
They also addressed the rumor that the three saucers had something to do with the legendary 1947 Rosewell crash, which also took place in New Mexico. Hoover reportedly ordered agents to make sure there were no UFO sightings in the area from 1947 through July 1950.
The Hottel memo was never officially investigated, seemingly indicating that the saucer story was never considered serious.
"Our Washington Field Office didn't think enough of that flying saucer story to look into it," said the FBI press statement according to Space.com.
The memo has caused thousands of people to believe in a number of different conspiracy theories, which will most likely still continue despite what the FBI says.
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