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.
“Nevers”7 pages
Cincinnati 91, Ohio I want to thank you for your letter and the enclosures which you forwarded to this Bureau. I have taken the liberty of forwarding a copy of your letter and the enclosures thereto to the Department of the Air Force, inasmuch as the matter referred to in your letter is within the jurisdiction of that Department. Sincerely yours, John Edgar Hobbet OV Director Note: The Records Section has been unable to locate a cross reference on the name encl. page 7). In view of the information contained in it is not believed the reference will be pertinent in this instance. This action is being taken to expedite the Bureau's reply to the correspondent. File mentioned above concerns name check requests. 67NOV101952386
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.