An FBI report of “flying saucers” in New Mexico sent to then-Director J. Edgar Hoover in 1950 has become the most popular file in the bureau’s electronic reading room.

The memo sent by FBI Washington, D.C.- field office chief Guy Hottel has been viewed nearly a million times.

The document is about a report of three flying saucers allegedly recovered in New Mexico, each occupied by three small human-shaped bodies. It says an informant told officials that the UFOs had ended up there because a government radar in the area interfered with their controlling mechanisms.

The FBI never followed up on the report.

The memo is available in the “The Vault,” an electronic reading room launched by the FBI in 2011 that contains around 6,700 public documents.

See the file here:

http://vault.fbi.gov/hottel_guy/Guy%20Hottel%20Part%201%20of%201/view