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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Mr. Lon M. Cerame Eastern Representative National Investigations Committee on Unidentified Flying Objects 77 Gless Avenue Belleville, New Jersey 07109 Dear Mr. Cerame: I have received your letter of April 30th concerning an article you are preparing on Aerial Phenomena. Although I would like to be of assistance, matters pertaining to Unidentified Flying Objects and Aerial Phenomena are not within the jurisdiction of the FBI. I regret we are unable to be of help. Sincerely yours, J. Edgar Hoover NOTE: Our files contain no information identifiable with correspondent. ## JCF:pls (5)
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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.