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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Dear Miss Weightman: Your letter of January 25th has been received, and your kind comments regarding my administration of the FBI are indeed appreciated. In response to your inquiry, information in our files must be maintained as confidential pursuant to regulations of the Department of Justice. I regret I am unable to be of help and hope you will not infer either that we do or do not have material in our files relating to the organization you mentioned. ## Sincerely yours J. Edgar Hoover NOTE: Bufiles contain no record identifiable with correspondent. The National Investigation Committee on Aerial Phenomena has not been investigated by the Bureau; however, it has been the subject of many citizen inquiries. It was founded in 1956 and has been critical of the United States Air Force with regard to the disclosure of information to the public concerning Unidentified Flying Objects. Major Donald E. Keyhoe is a retired Major of the United States Marine Corps. He has been known to the Bureau since the 1930's and is a flamboyant free-lance writer. He has written to the Bureau and much of the material he has submitted has been irresponsible. An invitation by Keyhoe to the Director to become a member of this group was not accepted. (62-103581)
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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.