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This FBI file section, serial 448 onward of 62-HQ-83894, gathers UFO correspondence from 1966 to 1977. It includes J. Edgar Hoover's reply to Florence C. Dow of Goffstown, New Hampshire, who had asked whether the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America was backed by communists. Her enclosed July 1966 issue of the AFSCA journal is also in the file. Later items are a 1977 Air Force UFO fact sheet on the end of Project Blue Book and a White House inquiry, to which the FBI replied that it has no jurisdiction over UFO sightings.
“Independence Day”7 pages
_ r..~- ; AdOO ' Oll3 X HARVARD COLLEGE OBSERVATORY CAMBRIDGE 38, MASSACHUSETTS July 28, 1964 Mr. Edward A. Stewart, Jr. 152 Mount Holly Avenue Mount Holly, New Jersey Dear Mr. Stewart: The object you saw was a bright meteor, sometimes called a "fireball" or a 1'bolide11 • Almost all vecy bright meteors are small bodies moving in orbits rather like the orbits of asteroids, and probably are fragments of asteroids. The direction of motion of your \meteor is consistent with that sort of orbit. A good many bright' meteors strike the earth each day, but most go unnoticed. We have received another report of the same meteor from Wilmington, Delaware. I am sending your observation to the Moonwatch Division of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatocy here in Cambridge, which has a continuing program for analysis of visual observations of bright meteors. Since it is vecy rarely possible for the professional astronomer to observe these meteors, most of what is known about them depends on this sort of lucky chance . ·-._ Sincerely yours, ~4~ RBS:lrw Richard B±s'ou.thworth EtallUJ'.lllq ---- •,' ,·' '
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