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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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# Aerial Phenomena Research Group Seattle, Washington

Headquarters: 5108 Findlay Street

Bob Gribble Executive Director

Dear Sir!

Several reports of unidentified flying objects seen over cities in your section of the country since have recently arrived at our office. We would appreciate names and addresses of witnesses reporting unidentified flying objects or other aerial phenomenon to your office during this period. All names and addresses will be held strictly confidential, to be used only when contacting the witness for information regarding their experience.

We are a national organization whose objectives are to investigate and determine the nature of unidentified flying objects and related phenomena. Any information you can give us pertaining to this matter will be greatly appreciated.

Thanking you in advance, I am

Sincerely yours

Director of Investigations

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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.