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
RECORDED 28 109 BY COURIER SERVICE Dates May 11, 1956 To: Director of Special Investigations (orig. & 1) The Inspector General Department of the Air Force Building Tempo E 4th and Adams Drive, E. W. Washington, D. C. From: John Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Subject: FLYING DISC OBSERVED OXFORD, PENNSYLVANIA MAY 4, 1956 MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING (ESPIONAGE) At 11:35 p.m., May 4, 1956, an individual who identified himself as Oxford, Pennsylvania, advised this Bureau he had just observed at Oxford, Pennsylvania, a bright light traveling about 2,000 feet in the air toward Baltimore, Maryland. He described the object as a solid, bright yellow light visible from all directions and that it was twice as bright and twice as large as the headlight of an automobile. He also described it as twice as bright as the evening star. He was unable to describe it in more detail. He stated the object made no noise, that at first its speed was the same as the car he was driving but it sped up and although he was driving 80 miles an hour he was unable to keep up with it. He advised that two of his friends, also had observed the object. At 2:45 p.m. May 5, 1956, the above- referred-to individual advised his true name and Kenneth Square, 'Fenneylvanla. Raven Tenn Size Winterro Tele. Room Holloman Candy EHM: Jdb 50 MAY 22 1936 62-83994-867
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.