PURSUE Release 01: 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Serial_220

Serial 220 is part of PURSUE Release 01's posting of FBI file 62-HQ-83894, the Bureau headquarters file described in the release as material concerning unidentified flying objects and flying discs.¹ The official PDF for this entry is 65_hs1-834228961_62-hq-83894_serial_220.pdf, a 15-page scan tied to FBI Central Records Center labels for headquarters case 62-HQ-83894, volume 1, serial 220.²

  Macias's Veracruz Submission

The first pages preserve an English translation of a letter from Miguel Angel Garcia Macias of Veracruz, Mexico. The letter identifies Macias as a pianist, composer, discoverer, and ideographic inventor at 324 Pino Suarez Avenue in Veracruz, and it is dated March 19, 1950.² It is addressed to the president of a Commission of Scientific Investigation of the United States of North America in New York, and the page bears an FBI New York receipt stamp dated April 7, 1950.²

Macias frames his submission as studies for scientific consideration. He says the subject is "stratospheric aerostats" or flying saucers, which he believes the United States possesses through the use of atomic force.² Before explaining that idea, he lists inventions or studies he says he had devised, including a graduated dropper, automatic shovels for dump trucks or concrete mixers, rooms for measuring optics, gradual centimetric music, anti-collision devices for railways and roads, time-and-distance graduations, ship-stability concepts, wharf-safety lighting, and mechanized gear studies.²

The translated page headed "Stratospheric Aerostats" describes a proposed device based on combining the stability of a globe with the semi-global stability of a parachute. The proposal links that imagined stability to atomic material, high velocity in air or space, and protection from atomic explosions on Earth.²

  Civilian Atomic-Saucer Speculation

This serial is useful because it shows the FBI UFO headquarters file collecting correspondence at the boundary between public inquiry, invention claims, and early Cold War atomic speculation. The pages examined do not present an official flying-saucer program; they preserve a civilian technical-imaginative proposal, mailed from Veracruz and translated for English readers, inside the same headquarters UFO file as more conventional military and investigative material.²

Within PURSUE Release 01, Serial 220 broadens the picture of 62-HQ-83894. The file was not only a place for sighting reports. It also preserved the way private citizens tried to explain flying saucers through the technological language available to them in 1950: patents, aerostats, parachutes, atomic force, speed, and civil-safety inventions.¹²

  Serial 220 Release Asset

65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Serial_220 remote release asset

  References

  References

1. war.gov ↩ ↩²

2. war.gov ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸