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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Registered Mr. Michael Solimando Chief of Police MADER OF SUBJECT ORGANIZATION Emerson, New Jersey 07630 My dear Chief: Reference is made to your letter dated February 7, 1968, enclosing two negatives of photographs purportedly taken by Vincent Perna, 143 Bruce Avenue, Yonkers, New York. I regret we will be unable to comply with your request for examination of the negatives you submitted. It is a long-established policy of this Bureau that the facilities of the FBI Laboratory are available to law enforcement agencies for assistance in connection with the investigation and prosecution of criminal matters. Since there is no indication that the negatives you submitted are in any way related to a criminal case, it would be contrary to the above-enunciated policy for the examinations to be made. Please be assured that the facilities of our Laboratory are available to you and your department in the examination of any evidence submitted in harmony with established policy, and may I assure you of my desire to cooperate with you on matters of mutual interest. The negatives you submitted are returned herewith. ## Sincerely yours, ## John Edgar Hoover Director ## Enclosures (2) 1- Newark (with copy of incoming) WDG:mb(4) ( See note page 2 ) FEB1-6 1968 TELETYPE UNIT BECRAFT COHN
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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.