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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 Memorandum . UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT DATE: March 15, 1957 SUBJECT: GREAT MEADOWS, NEW JERSEY INFT. For record purposes, (Great Meadows, New Jersey, telephone telephoned from his home at 12:52 p.m., March 14, 1957, while I was tied up on another matter, and talked with Wick. age 56, is one of the original founders of was employed by Louis de Rochemont on our movie, "House on 92nd Street," and he formerly was editor of He married whom he says is known to the Director. He has one arm. ## MYS said, to make a long story short, that he has run into a situation which has to do with an unidentified flying object observed two days ago in the Great Meadows vicinity. said he had made a formal report in writing to military authorities, as well as to two civilian groups interested in the affair. General Wedemeyer is connected with one of the latter groups. said he is not satisfied that the "intelligence" he supplied to the military is being handled properly, nor does he know to whom he should submit information and in what fashion. He said frankly he wanted an Agent to call upon him so that the Agent could evaluate his information, although he said he well knew "flying saucers," etc., were not within the scope of the FBT's interest nor jurisdiction. (The attached news ticker from United Press reflects that in testimony before a House Appropriations Subcommittee, 2-19-57, Dr. Hugh Dryden, Director of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, had flatly stated there is no such thing as a flying saucer. It was said too that the Air Force or some other authority should nail down the unidentified "flying objects" and "say it is pure fiction.") ## ACTION TAKEN: tw While normally we would simply tell a caller that we have no jurisdiction and that he should refer such matter to the proper military cc: Mr. Boardman RECORDED - 36 62-83894-374 cc: Mr. Belmont INDEXED - 36 REW:af 3rd 50 APR1 1957 17 MAR 26 1957 EX 105
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