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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 12

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 142 pages · text by 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. 24 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington P5…
  • p. 27 …UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT Conspired to the Inspector General Department of the Air Force, The Pentagon Washington…
  • p. 38 …the generals in the Pentagon, warming to their task, decided to enlarge the scope of the…
  • p. 47 …C., and to The Honorable, The Secretary of Defense, The Pentagon, Washington, D. C. Sincerely yours…
  • p. 64 …the Director of Special Investigations, The Inspector General, Department of the Air Force, The Pentagon, Washington…
  • p. 67 …communication available to The Honorable, The Secretary of the Air Force, The Pentagon, Washington 25, D…
  • p. 71 …the Director of Special Investigations, The Inspector General, Department of the Air Force, The Pentagon, Washington…
  • p. 75 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25…
  • p. 79 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington R5…
  • p. 80 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25…
  • p. 81 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25…
  • p. 83 …the Director of Special Investigations, The Inspector General, Department of the Air Force, The Pentagon Washington…
  • p. 122 …the Director, Office of Special Investigations, The Inspector General, Department of the Air Force, The Pentagon…
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.

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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 an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 142 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.