Who was Guy Hottel, and is he a real person or a fictional creation?
He was a real person. He was born in 1902 in Virginia, graduated from GW, where he played football, and then, in 1934, joined the FBI. During WWII, he became head of the FBI’s Washington field office and stayed there until 1951, when he went over to their identification division, and then retired in 1955.
He then went to work for the Horseman’s Benevolent And Protective Association, which is this lobbying organization for racehorse owners, until he retired from there in 1974. He died in 1990. He was married three times, divorced twice, and had two sons.
Is this about that UFO memo?
Since I don’t know that I can edit (because it’s been more than 5 minutes), here’s the story about the UFO memo. There were these two con men in New Mexico named Silas Newton and Leo Gebauer. Newton and Gebauer claimed that they had found a flying saucer that had crashed near Aztec, NM, in 1948, and that they had recovered technology from the crash that let them build a machine to find oil and natural gas, and of course, they just needed a little bit of money to get it working and viable, so if you’d like to invest in this new technology…
Anyway, they talked to an author at Variety named Frank Scully, who wrote a book about their find called “Behind the Flying Saucers”. (Thanks to this book, Scully would go on to become the namesake of one of the main characters in the X-Files). The story also, either directly or indirectly, came to the attention of an Air Force investigator, who let the FBI know, so it came to the attention our friend Guy Hottel, at that time, head of the Washington Bureau, who wrote the following memo to Director Hoover: