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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. 30 …However, the ability to measure these phenomena does not seem to have advanced in stop with…
  • p. 35 …from the fact that reasonable theories could be advanced to explain away all the reports of…
  • p. 69 …borders on the occult), they were able to prognosticate well in advance the recent earthquake which…
  • p. 115 …All names and addresses will be held strictly confidential, to be used only when contacting the…
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The Hague The Netherlands

Your letter dated October 6, 1952, has been received.

You will perhaps recall being advised at the time of your visit to this Bureau that the matter discussed was not within the jurisdiction of the FDI. However, in view of your imminent departure from Washington the information was accepted for transmittal to the appropriate agency, which was to contact you if interested.

Full details were made available at that time to the Department of the Air Force for evaluation and consider ation. In the absence of some arrangement between you and the Air Force, your further use of the pertinent facts is, of course, a matter for your own determination.

Sincerely yours,

## John Edgar Hoover Director

## NOTE ON YELLOW:

Rulet to OSI, Air Force, dated 5-7-52 transmitted data furnished by to the Bureau 5-5-52 concerning his ideas as to plans for a workable flying disc. was informed that further contact with him, if any, would come from the interested Government agency rather than the Bureau. No mention was made of him keeping the facts secret pending a reply from the Bureau or the Air Force. (G2-03094-273)

MALLEU

63 OCT 20 1952

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.