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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. 15 …you can send actual voice to IFSB headquarters. In this way, I as President, could send…
  • p. 106 …UFO phenomena, the Undue Secrecy by Airforce headquarters, and the suppression of public news concernin the…
  • p. 115 # Aerial Phenomena Research Group Seattle, Washington Headquarters: 5108 Findlay Street Bob Gribble Executive Director Dear Sir…
  • p. 128 …Sinai seems to have been God's headquarters for a certain maneuver at this time. Space…
  • p. 134 …stated he had received a teletype from his headquarters, reflecting that Street, Van Nuys, California, had…
  • p. 139 …he had tried to call Civil Defense headquarters in Baltimore but no one was on duty…

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Nichols to Tolson memo

authorities, in this instance, because of demonstrated friendliness to the Bureau and the Director, his sane and reasonable approach to matters and his apparent concern for the welfare of our country, I instructed Wick to have the Newark Office have an Agent when in the vicinity of Great Meadow simply drop by Mr. home to see what he has in mind.

ASAC Commons of the Newark Office told Wick he would have an Agent drop by to see and would send a letter to the Bureau coverin results.

Cases discussed

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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.