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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(8) . Report to IPSB all reports and sightings in your area. However, first put the sightings before your group and let them judge whether they are authentic or not. (9) . Keep a record of all else memoers in your area and their activities as far as IFSB in concerned (10) . Certain if possible (merely a suggestion), a tape recorder so that you can send actual voice to IFSB headquarters. In this way, I as President, could send messages for you to play at your local meetings. In the future I may even pay your city a visit and attend one of your meetings. These are all merely suggestions for you to ponder offer and if you decide to adopt any of them please consult with your Indiana Representative, Mr. Campbell. After you have done this, get in touch with me at once. I sincerely hope that these suggestions will help you it being some move as to what your local group will do, Forever Looking Up, Albert K. Bender Albert K. Bender President
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.