Documents / FOIA release

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. 127 …Jacob until it was time for the space-m to go, whereupon he partially paralyzed Jacob…
  • p. 128 …We read, "The angels (space-men) of God met him and when Jacob saw them he…

Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.

DIRECTOR, FBI

8/15/56

gation to obtain information concerning the background of and was advised that no such investigation would be conducted by this office in the absence of instructions from the Bureau.

No record of is reflected in the indices of the Los Angeles Office and was so advised.

No action by this office is contemplated.

Cases discussed

About this file

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.