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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. 22 …He was advised that his offer of cooperation was appreciated, but that it was not desired…
  • p. 61 …matter, and would appreciate the Bureau's cooperation in immediately advising of details received concerning such…
  • p. 84 …Thanking you very much for your cooperation and consideration in this matter and will you please…
  • p. 104 …for a number of years and has cooperated with the United States Air Force to the…
Mr. J. Edgar Hoover Director of F.B.L Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. Hoover:

Enclosed is a copy of a Lecture sent to me from Detroit. I think it is the most fascinating Research ever made.

In your busy life you may not have encountered it, so I thought I would send you a copy.

Why doesn't the Government come out with the truth about unidentified Flying Objects?

Everybody seems to accept the "Saucers" as a matter of course, and people are becoming annoyed at the "ostrich stance" our Leaders 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--and inquiries!

I have heard many people say that you probably have all the answers--but I suppose you have been throttled 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 engulfed you too much.

To the Legions of your admirers you stand too High are too clean and honest to become so involved.

Thanks to Almighty God there are character Influences like you still standing on the same firm ground of our Forefathers.

Each day now a few more chips are knocked off the pillars of Learning, High morals, decent behavior and honest standards. Where can it all end? The days are becoming wearisome and fearful; surely the repercussions are shaking the outer walls of even Our Father's House.

I wonder what the God of Our Fathers is going to do about

H4

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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.