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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 11

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 127 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This part of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's UFO file collects FBI and Air Force correspondence from about 1950 to 1953. It includes an Air Force OSI district summary of aerial phenomena in New Mexico from December 1948 to May 1950, which reports that green fireballs occurred near sensitive installations and remained unexplained. It also holds a 1950 sighting of an orange sphere by a New Haven chemical engineer, a report from jet pilots near Fairbanks, a Los Alamos reporting form, and 1953 memos on sighting tips that the FBI passed on without investigating.

  • p. 1 Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington, D…
  • p. 5 …Summary of Observations of Aerial Phenomena in the New Hexi Area, December 1948 - May 1950 ## DISTRIBUTION…
  • p. 70 Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington, D…
  • p. 88 …to communicate with The Honorable, The Secretary of the Air Force, The Pentagon, Washington 25, D…
  • p. 91 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25…
  • p. 97 …After I had written to the Pentagon about my invention, a rejection arrived. From Salzburg I…
  • p. 102 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25…
  • p. 111 …May 14, 1953 Director of Special Investigations Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon…
  • p. 116 …of it to The Honorable, The Secretary of the Air Force, The Pentagon, Washington 25, D…
  • p. 120 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25…
  • p. 122 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25…
  • p. 125 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25…

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To: Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25, D. C.

From: John Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation

Subject: FLYING SAUCERS

The following information has been received by this Bureau from its representative in London, England, concerning the captioned matter:

U. S. Air Force Base, Wildenhall, England, telephonically contacted the writer on February 14, 1953, regarding the new or revived interest in "flying saucers." He stated he did not have any new information to report but he knew of an incident that took place several years ago which this Bureau might desire to check.

This incident, according to Major concerns an article or story on "flying saucers" which appeared in a small newspaper with limited circulation located at Jeffersonville, Delaware Township, Sullivan County, New York. He was unable to recall the name of the newspaper but was certain it is the only one published in that area. The story appeared in one of the early 1947 issues or in one of the issues during the last three months of 1946. It was written by a member of the U. S. Armed Forces and of significance is the fact that subsequent issues failed to follow it up by

MAILED 6

MAR 9 - 1953

COMM. FDJ

EHU:eme

1111 1953

42-83894-327

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