Documents / FOIA release
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.
“Office of Special Investigations”16 pages
Office Memorandum . UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO Director, FBI (62-83894) DATE: 4/12/57 SAC, Cincinnati (100-11671) SUBJECT: CIVILIAN RESEARCH INTERPLANETARY FLYING OBJECTS Cincinnati 27, Ohio MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING On March 25, 1957, appeared at the Cincinnati Office for the purpose of calling attention to a letter dated March 19, 1957, which he had received from For the information of the Bureau and the Norfolk Office, is presently the Advertising Manager for he has been interested in flying discs or objects for a number of years and has cooperated with the United States Air Force to the extent of furnishing the Air Force with any information on flying objects coming to his attention. Mr. was also the publisher of a paper called the " , which carried the following heading: was a monthly publication which carried information and intelligence research by on flying objects. According to the had a limited circulation. In connection with Dr. letter, stated that prior to the receipt of the letter he received a long distance telephone call from Dr. on March 12, 1957. This call was received by him in the early morning prior to his departure for work. He related that Dr. was a subscriber to the and that during the phone conversations she made reference to some of his reports which he had published in the and for the most part spoke on matters that were "over his head" and things that he did not understand. According to she concluded the conversation by stating she would write him a letter, which letter was the reason for his call on the FBI 62-92844-376 2 - Bureau (62-83894)(BM) (Enclosures - 2) 2 - Norfolk (RM) (Enclosure - 1) 2 - Cincinnati (100-11671) (6) ENCLOSURE INDEXED - 83
FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 142 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.