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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 12

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 142 pages · text by OCR

This FBI file section contains a 20 January 1953 letter from the Johnson County, Indiana civil defense office asking J. Edgar Hoover whether the International Flying Saucer Bureau was subversive, with an enclosed issue of its bulletin Space Review. It also holds 1956 FBI memoranda and letters to Air Force investigators on a Van Nuys landing claim, a bright light seen from Oxford, Pennsylvania, and a low spinning object seen near Henderson, North Carolina. In each case the FBI took no action.

  • p. 30 …However, the ability to measure these phenomena does not seem to have advanced in stop with…
  • p. 35 …from the fact that reasonable theories could be advanced to explain away all the reports of…
  • p. 69 …borders on the occult), they were able to prognosticate well in advance the recent earthquake which…
  • p. 115 …All names and addresses will be held strictly confidential, to be used only when contacting the…
Office M. Corndum • UNITE OTACES GOVERNMENT

TO DIRECTOR, FBI (62-83894)

DATE: 4/24/57

FROM SAC, RICHMOND (62-0)

SUBJECT: CIVILIAN RESEARCH INTERPLANETARY-FLYING OBJECTS Ave., Cincinnati 27, Ohio MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING

## Relet from Norfolk: to Bureau dated 4/18/57.

For information of Bureau, only record in Richmond indices on that contained in Richmond letter to Bureau dated 3/28/57 entitled WILHELM REICH, MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING". RUC

TEB/mcw

(4)

2-Director

1-Cincinnati (100-11671)(Info.)

1-Richmond

8 APR 25 1957

Cases discussed

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