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
## O O . O O C1. 100-11671 Mr. furnished the letter to this office but desired the same be returned to him and it should be noted that Dr. speaks of testifying before some Congression committee in connection with flying saucers and his publication. She further speaks of events designated "OROP Desert Ea" which knows nothing about. In the first paragraph of page 2 in speaking of the above event, she makes reference that there is evidence for espionage against this work and later adds that the FBI so far has declined to investigate as the subject is "not within their jurisdiction". It is further noted that she also speaks of the evidence of the "orgone energy motor", which has no knowledge of. Dr. mentions a number of people as being former members on the staff of the expedition "OROP Desert Ea". For the information of the Bureau and Norfolk, persons mentioned by Dr. in her letter have been checked through the Cincinnati indices with negative results. There are attached hereto two autostatic copies of Dr. letter to Mr. dated March 19, 1957, for the Bureau, and one copy for the Norfolk Office. The Norfolk Office is requested to check their indices on Dr. and furnish the Bureau with any identifiable data concerning her and persons mentioned in her letter of March 19, 1957. This office is returning the original to Mr. and is not maintaining a copy of the same in this office.
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.