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.
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Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO A. H. Belmont DATE: 5-5-56 FLYING DISC OBSERVED OXFORD, PENNSYLVANIA May 4, 1956 Reference made to memorandum Mr. to Mr. Belmont, May 4, 1956, indicating Oxford, Pennsylvania, called at 11:35 p.m., May 4, 1956, concerning a bright light he had observed traveling toward Baltimore at an altitude of approximately 2,000 feet. This same individual telephonically advised the writer 2:45 p.m. May 5, 1956, his true name is and that his true residence is Kenneth Square, Pennsylvania. desired to know the results of any investigation conducted as the result of his previous call. It was pointed out to him that the Bureau was not at liberty to disclose such information. Bureau indices on limited to Pennsylvania, were searched with negative results. At 3:35 p.m., May 5, 1956, Captain OSI, was telephonically advised at his residence. 27 MAY 1G 1956 5 / 11 / 52 EHM
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.