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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 12

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 142 pages · text by GLM-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. 22 …He was advised that his offer of cooperation was appreciated, but that it was not desired…
  • p. 61 …matter, and would appreciate the Bureau's cooperation in immediately advising of details received concerning such…
  • p. 84 …Thanking you very much for your cooperation and consideration in this matter and will you please…
  • p. 104 …for a number of years and has cooperated with the United States Air Force to the…

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## SAC, Cincinnati

and government administration in the United States, representing possible admissions against interest. This information was furnished by the Bureau to Assistant Attorney General Tompkins and the Director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

In view of the above information and in the absence of any indication that matters related by in her letter to are within the Bureau's jurisdiction, Richmond should disregard the lead act out in the last paragraph of referenced Cincinnati letter.

There is enclosed herewith for the Richmond Office an Autostat of Sva Reich's letter to Leonard Stringfield, Cincinnati, Ohio, dated March 19, 1957. In view of vague threatened use of force (set forth in the last paragraph of her letter to Richmond Division should promptly make this information available to appropriate local officials in Alexandria, Virginia.

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