Documents / FOIA release
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
## BY COURIER SERVICE Date: September 20, 1956 To: Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force Building Tempo E 4th and Adams Drive, S.W. Washington, D. C. From: John. Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Subjects THE A.P.R.O. BULLETIN 1712 VAN COURT ALAMOGORDO, NFW MEXICO MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CO. CERNING On August 31, 1956, Street, St. Louis, Missouri, who is employed as an electrician, furnished the St. Louis Office of this Bureau with information that he and a group of his fellow workers have subscribed to a publication cautioned "The A.P.R.O. Bulletin," which contains articles about flying saucers. advised he answered an advertisement in a magazine and subscribed to this publication for one year, at a cost of $3.00. further advised that in his opinion, the publication alurred and criticized the U. S. Air Force and official of the U. S. Air Force. No action is contemplated in this matter by this Bureau. NOTE ON YELLOW: BY COUNTER SVG. 35 SEP 20 COMPLETE RECORDED-11 11-3-71-270 Bureau files are negative concerning captioned publication and in view of the fact that it deals with flying saucers and the established policy has been to refer matters of this type to the Air Force, no further action is deemed necessary. JJO'C:ebn (5) 60 SEP 2C 1956
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.