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The Hottel Memo
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This 6 min episode was written from the public record. These are the sources behind it.
- FBI Vault: Guy Hottel (the original 1950 memo)
- FBI: UFOs and the Guy Hottel Memo (FBI explanation, 2013)
- NBC News: FBI comes clean on top X-File: 'We never investigated' Hottel UFO memo (2013 report)
- The Black Vault: The “Guy Hottel” Memo and the Crashed Flying Saucers of New Mexico, March 22, 1950 (FOIA document archive)
- Wikipedia: Hottel memo (overview)
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