Nikola Tesla FBI Files - Page 159

lal 0 Mr. Edgar Hoover, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, D.C. Q February 12, 1937 My dear Mr. Hoover: I do not know whether or not the recent series of air crashes on the west coast has attracted the attention of your department, or whether, if investigation were indicated, the jurisdiction would be your own. An idea as to the cause of these crashes has occurred to me, however, and I thought it might bear a bit of checking up. If you will check newspaper files as far back as 1934, I believe you will find that the earliest of the unexplained (and apparently unexplainable crashes) occurred about that time. As I remember the events, it was during that year that three small planes exploded in the air over Texas and southwestern Kansas and Oklahoma. These crashes were not accounted for, either by subsequent investigation where the plane occupants were killed or by the experience of surviving plane occupants in one case. Following these tragedies there came a lapse of about a year, after which there occurred (likewise without apparent reason) the series of crashes which cost the lives of a senator, of Knute Rockne, and a number of others. All crashes again occurred in the South and Southwest. Again there was a lapse of time, this one not quite a year, and there started the worst series of air disasters the country has yet seen. One plane lost in the Southwest and not yet accounted for. One plane crashes into a mountainside within sight of its airport. And now the most recent incident, the falling of a United liner into San Francisco Bay while circling its airport, preparators to lending. ALLUNDED & INDEXEIN 5-47649-1 Now in this most recent incident, the expertence of the radio operator at the airport 'seems to me to be highly illuminating. This operator reported a soft buzz interrupting his communication Fine 93er a loud roar such as produced by the worst imaginable static ... then silence. The plane had dropped into the bay like a plummet. xx Boxe 159