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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.
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Date: April 16, 1956 Director of Special Investigations (Original & 1) The Inspector General Department of the Air Force Building Tempo E 4th and Adams Drive, E. W. Washington, D. C. BY COURIER SERVICE Front John Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Subject: SIGHTING OF OBJECT RESEARCHING FLYING SAUCER ON APRIL 6, 1956. NEAR HENDERSON, NORTH CAROLINA DISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING (ESPIONAGE) On April 6, 1956, Miss an employee of this Bureau who resides at Alexandria, Virginia, while en route to Norven, North Carolina, via automobile, with her fiance, Mr. observed an unusual object which appeared to resemble a flying saucer. Miss stated at about 5 A.M., on April 6, 1956, while it was still dark and while driving on Route 1 north of Henderson, North Carolina, she and Mr. were startled by what appeared to be an oval-shaped, low-flying object coming directly towards their car at a great speed, on the driver's side. Miss stated the object, which was less than 25 feet from the ground, appeared to be spinning, was bright as though containing a series of lights in a zigzagging pattern, was light blue in color and was at least as wide as the highway and no more than from two to four feet in thickness. She stated the object did not change shape, it made no sound and that she observed it for only a few seconds before it appeared to pass over the car, accelerate speed and veer off out of sight behind them. Miss Richarda advised when daylight came she noticed it was cloudy and that approximately 30 minutes after they had sighted the object it began to rain. Cover memo Belmont to Boardman 4-13-56 ELIES, re: Name Check Unit, ECD 4-14-47."
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.