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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. 5 …The decision was reached, never again. On this small planet they'd ever land. Wars, corruption…
  • p. 21 …Captain Ruppelt advised Colonel Young that they have never indicated in any way that the FBI…
  • p. 28 …Furthermore, Captain Ruppelt stated that the FBI to his knowledge has never been called upon to…
  • p. 40 that—that while the information they give me may be made their names never will be…
  • p. 44 …Excuse me please if I misspelled your name, but I never saw it in writing. On…
  • p. 99 …stated that he and his uncle have felt "foolish" when discussing the matter and never bothered…
  • p. 129 …great and powerful people, their like has never been from of old nor will be again…
the " ostri ' instance " on ( sufferers have taken about them .

A number of clergymen feel that the time has come for someone to answer intelligently and sincerely the public' s inquiries . They have gone to " The Book " - the Sacred Bible where man can always find the answers to all his needs, doubts, fears - inquiries !

I have heard many people say that you probably have all the answers . - but I suppose you have been thrilled too!

I'm so glad you refused to accept the invitation to run for President. You would have been a good one _ ( if you could be let alone ) _ but sordid party politics would have enqueled you too much. To the Legions of your admirers you stand too high _ are too

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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.