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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 09

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 67 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section collects 1949 and 1952 memoranda and public letters about flying saucers. Letters from citizens offering theories were acknowledged and forwarded to the Air Force, and Hoover passed along a report of objects over Thessalon Lake, Ontario, along with an anonymous German letter about a V-weapon disc. An Air Intelligence briefing said research had reached no satisfactory conclusion. Memos also trace how the negatives of a 1947 Phoenix disc photograph were handed to Air Force Intelligence.

  • p. 16 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25…
  • p. 32 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 75…
  • p. 60 …to The Honorable, The Secretary of the Air Force, Department of Defense Building, The Pentagon, Washington…

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Your letter of July 8, 1952, has been

While I would like to be of service, the subject matter of your communication does not relate to an activity within the investigative jurisdiction of the FBI. I have, however, taken the liberty of referring a copy of your letter to The Honorable, The Secretary of the Air Force, Department of Defense Building, The Pentagon, Washington 25, D. C., who may be able to be of assistance.

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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. 67 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.