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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.

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“The Pentagon”13 pages

  • p. 24 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington P5…
  • p. 27 …UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT Conspired to the Inspector General Department of the Air Force, The Pentagon Washington…
  • p. 38 …the generals in the Pentagon, warming to their task, decided to enlarge the scope of the…
  • p. 47 …C., and to The Honorable, The Secretary of Defense, The Pentagon, Washington, D. C. Sincerely yours…
  • p. 64 …the Director of Special Investigations, The Inspector General, Department of the Air Force, The Pentagon, Washington…
  • p. 67 …communication available to The Honorable, The Secretary of the Air Force, The Pentagon, Washington 25, D…
  • p. 71 …the Director of Special Investigations, The Inspector General, Department of the Air Force, The Pentagon, Washington…
  • p. 75 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25…
  • p. 79 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington R5…
  • p. 80 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25…
  • p. 81 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25…
  • p. 83 …the Director of Special Investigations, The Inspector General, Department of the Air Force, The Pentagon Washington…
  • p. 122 …the Director, Office of Special Investigations, The Inspector General, Department of the Air Force, The Pentagon…

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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

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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.