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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 12

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 142 pages · text by 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. 5 …The decision was reached, never again. On this small planet they'd ever land. Wars, corruption…
  • p. 21 …Captain Ruppelt advised Colonel Young that they have never indicated in any way that the FBI…
  • p. 28 …Furthermore, Captain Ruppelt stated that the FBI to his knowledge has never been called upon to…
  • p. 40 that—that while the information they give me may be made their names never will be…
  • p. 44 …Excuse me please if I misspelled your name, but I never saw it in writing. On…
  • p. 99 …stated that he and his uncle have felt "foolish" when discussing the matter and never bothered…
  • p. 129 …great and powerful people, their like has never been from of old nor will be again…
Mr John Edgar Hoover Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington , D.C.

Dear Mr. Hoover : This is being written to you so that it may be forwarded to President Eisenhower if you feel it advisable ; and to prevent any secure leaks if such transmission of message is to be accomplished. :

PURPOSE:

A PLAN FOR BRINGING DOWN ONE OF THE STRANGE AIR VEHICLES AS SIGHTED OVER JAPAN AND ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD; AND THEN TO BE STUDIED BY OUR SCIENTISTS.

EQUIPMENT NEEDED=

1. GUIDED MISSILES = that may be guided from the ground or a Mother Ship or made to home on these strange objects through Radar or Radio.

2 A DEVICE which when sighted from Ground in Twilight or Darkness resembles of these Crutt as to= Shape Size and Lights and Flying character May be necessary to

May be necessary to use a high flying Zephyr, Balloon or Jet craft, Helicopter or other

THIS IS the Deco 142-183894-3259 such

Cases discussed

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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.