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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. 15 …you can send actual voice to IFSB headquarters. In this way, I as President, could send…
  • p. 106 …UFO phenomena, the Undue Secrecy by Airforce headquarters, and the suppression of public news concernin the…
  • p. 115 # Aerial Phenomena Research Group Seattle, Washington Headquarters: 5108 Findlay Street Bob Gribble Executive Director Dear Sir…
  • p. 128 …Sinai seems to have been God's headquarters for a certain maneuver at this time. Space…
  • p. 134 …stated he had received a teletype from his headquarters, reflecting that Street, Van Nuys, California, had…
  • p. 139 …he had tried to call Civil Defense headquarters in Baltimore but no one was on duty…

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Letter to Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force

Miss advised Mr. an employee of the who resides at North Arlington, Virginia, would recall approximately where they sighted the object and he may be able to furnish additional pertinent information.

The above to furnished for your information and no further action is being taken in this matter.

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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.