FBI file 62-HQ-83894, section 9

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When word got around that
Perry had ttu:. _s~things b~
oan 10 happen. Since then he s
had at least 50 letters and calls
about it.
One o1 the letters concerned
him greatly. It was from the
National Investigation Com
mittee on Aet'ial Phenomena. _
The committee had noticed an ·
article about Perry's find in a 1
Detroit paper.
"From past experience with
photographic evidence," the
Jetter continued, "we con-
Perry, who11e hobby Is ex
pensive, admits that some
financial pin wouldn't be a
bad id~ he declared
"it I get it back, It's for ev
erybody." He llAid he was In
f ormed a national magazine
wants to use it.
Perry Is conf ident that his
slide shows some sort o! space
vehicle.
He bristled with indignat ion
when asked i! anyone had sug
gested that the saucer might
help sell pizza. His pizza, he de
clared, is its own best adver
tisement.
f f f
Perry said It shouldn't take
sider it unlikely that you an expert long t o tell if the
wlll e ,·er see your picture slide is legitimate. The Gov-
1 Id ernment, he believes, wouldn'tagain.'' The e t t e r sa look kindly on a hoax and
th
NICAP wanted e picture would make a tool o! a person
made public. ' trying to .fake such a picture.
All Perry knew about the Perry said he did not see the
whereabouts ot the picture was object through the scope. He
that it was in Air F orce hands. ' was unaware of it until the
The FBI would only say that • slide was processed. He does
it was in "proper hands," Per- ' his own processing.
ry said.
So last week Perry wrote to The object, Perry said,
the President telling him he looked as It photographed
can't find out where h is slide from the s ide. It 1s surround
is and asking assurance that he ed by blue-green radiation
will get it back. and has the appearance of
being In motion.
f f f "Everybody who has con-
tacted me about It seems to
"The only way ~•u be s~ti~, know more about It than I
fied if I don't get it back 1~ '.! do,'' he commented.
the Government tells me 1t s I
top secret," said Perry later. All these people sounded se•
He has had oilers tor thel rious, he observed, even the tel
slide from groups that indicate low who called long-distance
they would g o int? court to _and said he had ridden in a fly.
gain possession o.f 1t from the mg saucer and wanted a pie.
Government.""~ ~ ture ot one to show his friends. I
For t hose who ~nt t o buy Perry said he didn't take him
it, Perry has a stock a nswer: seriously, however.
j"Il's not for sale." Asked i1 he had actvice .tor
others who lJ1ie.~e 'Up with
, a picture o! an unidentified
; flying object, he sa id:
,t copy."