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.
“Office of Special Investigations”16 pages
Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation Pennsylvania Avenue WASHINGTON D.3. Excuse me please if I misspelled your name, but I never saw it in writing. On May 5th at 2.15 P.M. of this year I paid you a visit in the P.B.I. offices, where I told you details on a certain subject you will surely remember. At the end of the conversation I promised you not to talk about it until I had received word from you whether or not the proper authorities were interested. It was taken for granted that a few months might elapse before the answer could be given. Five months have passed by since then, and as the subject has now become active in Europe, I am really anxious to go ahead with it. I have of course tried to check the theory on each aspect and while doing so I found various complementary as well as fundamental details. I have now reached the point however where I would like to discuss the whole with an expert and I would therefor certainly appreciate to know whether I have to consider our agreement on complete silence as still being valid and necessary or not It might be that you are too busy to be able to write to me or that the authorities are not interested. As it is not my intention to bother you too much with it, I will take it that there is no longer any necessity for silence on my part if I do not receive any information to the contrary by the end of this month. By this proposition I do not intend to force an issue but I would like to discuss a subject like this with scientists frienda of mine, which I cannot do as long as I am bound by my promise to you. With very kind regards, Yourn Truly RECORDED - 76. INDEXED-76 62-838941-319 41134
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.