The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) revealed that their most viewed public record file is the 1950 UFO Memo that recounts the odd story of a witness about three flying saucers spotted in New Mexico. The UFO Memo or also known as the "Hottel Memo" has been viewed almost 1 million times since 2011 after FBI launched its online public records database called "Vault."

The one-paged UFO memo dated March 22, 1950 was addressed to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. The memo came from Guy Hottel, the Head of the FBI's Washington, D.C. field office at that time, where information from an anonymous information was written.

The Hottel Memo reads: ''FLYING SAUCERS INFORMATION CONCERNING. An investigator for the Air Force stated that three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico. They were described as being circular in shape with raised centers, approximately 50 feet in diameter. Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only 3 feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture. Each body was bandaged in a manner similar to the blackout suits used by speed fliers and test pilots."

In a released statement on Monday, March 25, the FBI officials declared: "The Hottel Memo does not prove the existence of UFOs. It is simply a second- or third-hand claim that we never investigated."

The Bureau officials further added there is no reason to accept that the story is connected to the 1947 Roswell crash in New Mexico. "There is no reason to believe the two are connected. Director Hoover did order his agents, the request of the Air Force, to verify any UFO sightings. That practice ended in July 1950, four months after the Hottel memo, suggesting that our Washington Field Office didn't think enough of that flying saucer story to look into it," the FBI stated.

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