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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.
“Office of Special Investigations”16 pages
(A Correlation of Flying Saucers and Visitors from other Planets in The Bible) "Flying Saucere" have made the headlines off and on for many months now Much has been written about them. Research has shown that "flying chariots" and strange powers, both of locomotion and destruction, are described in the holy books of various heathen faiths many thousands of years older than our own. "Flying Chariots" have been seen and reported and not believed for many ages. That is nothing new. But what is new is that recently they have been photographed. Having established the factuality of the "flying saucer", it is now about time that we find a theological confirmation of the whole matter, this is a necessity! If "flying saucer" inhabit outer-space, and if they have some kind of celestial character, they should have some place in the total economy of God. They should have more place in our thinking and planning, and one would expect them to be mentioned in our own holy books, too. We are therefore not surprised, upon investigation, to find "flying" clouds, rolls, chariots, wheels and people, mentioned in the Bible. To realize this, is to make a great many mysterious things in the Bible seem both matter-of-fact and encouraging! The ancients, it is true, had no adequate words to describe the things they saw in their day which came from outer space. If a thing flew, it was called a "flying" cloud, bird, chariot or angel. We, today, should have progressed far enough scientifically to call objects from outer space by names which are more appropriate. But the unhappy term "flyer saucer" is a term more reminiscent of a tea-party than of the man-work of science. It seems our own nomenclature, or is it our imagination, very inadequate also. However, the possibility and probability of realizing unheard of sources of power and speeds, and the conquering of space is to us but a matter of time. To understand our own holy book we must replace outworn mythological minology of yester-year with the most adequate scientific terminology today. The heaven of yesterday we call "space" today! It can be nothing else. The angels of yesterday are the "space-men" of today. An angel was an inhabitant of space. They came from other worlds. If there are any inhabitants of outer space, we today would call them "eyemen". The "flying" clouds, horses, or chariots of scripture we call "flying saucers" or "space ships". With a clarification of but these three terms, many things now fall into place quite naturally. Angels or "space-men" have been seen. They've walked on earth. We re way back in the Old Testament, "Two angels (or space-men) came to Sodom in the evening. When Lot saw them he rose to meet them, and bowed him self with his face to the ground". He spoke to them and offered them hospitality. They did him a favor too. They saved his life! For the two space-men subsequently led an attack on Sodom and Gomorrah and destroyed it with "brimstone and fire out of heaven (space)" (Gen. 19).
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.