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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. 30 …However, the ability to measure these phenomena does not seem to have advanced in stop with…
  • p. 35 …from the fact that reasonable theories could be advanced to explain away all the reports of…
  • p. 69 …borders on the occult), they were able to prognosticate well in advance the recent earthquake which…
  • p. 115 …All names and addresses will be held strictly confidential, to be used only when contacting the…

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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 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.