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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# EMERSON POLICE DEPARTMENT Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington, D.C. 20535 Attention: F.B.I. Laboratory Re: 2 negatives of photos Taken by: Vincent Perna 143 Bruce Ave. Yonkers, N.Y. Dear Sir: Date photo taken: 12/18/66 I am a member of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, Emerson, N.J. Sub-Committee, and at present my committee is investigating a report of an unidentified flying object as reported by the person named above. The evidence, two photo negatives which were supplied by Mr. Perna, is being submitted in connection with this case in an effort to determine their authenticity, and has not been, nor will it be subjected to the same type of technical examination. The results of your examination will be used for official purposes only. You will find that one negative contains a burn mark which was accidentally done by myself while examining it under a microscope. Your cooperation in this matter will be greatly appreciated. EX110
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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.