Documents / FOIA release
This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section collects 1964 to 1968 correspondence about the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP). It includes public letters, internal notes calling Donald Keyhoe's submissions irresponsible, and an Indianapolis recommendation against sending material to NICAP researcher Harry F. Koch. The FBI Laboratory declined to examine UFO photo negatives from Emerson, New Jersey, but its experts privately judged them likely trick photography. Other replies state that UFO matters fall outside FBI jurisdiction.
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# UNIVERSAL # RESEARCH SOCIETY OF AMERICA Ursa 118 Oberreich Street LAPORTE, INDIANA 46350 March 23, 1966 Hellen W. Gandy, Secretary Federal Bureau of Investigation United States Department of Justice Washington, D.C. 20535 REG. 76 62-103581-20 B APR 8-1966 Dear Hellen Gandy: It has been near a year since I wrote you about our Society and our aims. What brought my attention to you again was a report I heard read over radio, the wonderful article that Mr. Hoover wrote in the Feb. 1966 issue of the FBI monthly bulletin about subverse, actions of the youths etc. Those words are the same basic we are building our society on. I wonder if you could get Mr. Hoover to send us a copy of that bulletin with his own signature and with his consent that we could reprint that article to place in our Flame of Youth publication and our Student Reminder publication, which by the way is written and edited by the students themselves. We dropped out of the NICAP organization because we didn't like their constant digging at our military over the UFO's. We feel the UFO's is a science and much is to be learned about it, we class it along with the space programs. And we do not only research into UFO's but into all fields of science, anything that can be helpful to the young people, that is our main goal, to urge the young people to finish their education and advance themselves into higher education. We have a science library of books, fact sheets, data, photos etc of up to date science, it keeps me busy writing all over the country and even foreign countries for the latest of any science the young people are interested in. Today ever job regardless what it is, even if a housewife it is a science, we are living in a scientific world. We are a non-profit group with many members from various parts of this country with NASA, corporations, industries, aircraft companies, scientists in many phases sending us data, fact sheets, actual photos of science events to help youths, to get them interested in science which in the past year we feel has created enough interest to keep them off the street corners at late nights. We have the help of sheriff's, chief of polices, state police whom are on our staff. We would like a FBI man on our staff also, don't seem to be able to get in contact with someone in South Bend, Indiana. With men like them on the staff and get material of various bulletins it does impress many youths, they are not all bad, thank goodness.
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FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 28 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.