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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No record identifiable with Vincent Perna located in Bufiles. We do have a record of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (100-35992-41). It has been described as a "non-profit, privately supported, fact finding body serving the National Public interest which offers memberships and publications giving authentic sighting reports and up-to-date developments about 'Unidentified Flying Objects'." This information was furnished to a Special Agent of our Washington Field Office in May, 1961, by Mr. Richard H. Hall, Secretary of the organization. As a matter of interest we have had prints made of the two negatives, that are attached for information. Our photographic experts have observed that the alleged flying object appears to be a considerable distance away over the distant forest. The flying object is clearly outlined but the distant forest is quite blurry. This would tend to suggest that, in fact, the object pictured was actually approximately as close as the nearby trees and, therefore, could not have been more than 12" to 15" in diameter. In other words, in all likelihood there is some trick photography involved.
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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.