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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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Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT 101 DIRECTOR, FBI DATE: 10/3/52 SAC, NEWARK (100-36998) E: SPECIAL INQUIRY UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL OBJECTS: Inspector General, USAF 2nd District Office of Special Investigations 67 Broad Street New York 4, New York FLYING VISITS For the information of the Bureau, on August 27, 1952, the Newark division received a request from the Inspector General, United States Air Force, 2nd District Office of Special Investigations, 67 Broad Street, New York 4, New York, that the back ground of a civilian photographer, Paterson, N. J., and of Passaic, N. J., be investigated in an attempt to determine their reliability in view of the fact that they had allegedly observed and photographed an unidentified aerial object on July 31, 1952. The appropriate credit and criminal checks were made in this matter as well as discreet neighborhood inquiries as to both individuals, and no information was received that either individual had criminal records or that they were known in the past to have perpetrated any kind of fraud. It was ascertained that did photograph an allegedly unidentified serial object and that witnessed the incident and developed and printed the exposed film which was subsequently forwarded to the 5th OSI District, Air Technical Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio by Mr. staff writer, "The Herald News, Passaic, N. J." The letter further requested that the photographer and the witness be questioned as to the circumstances under which the photographs were taken and that an attempt be made to locate other sources in the area that might determine the authenticity of the photos. No investigation of this type was made by the Newark division. In accordance with SAC letter #63, Series 1952 dated 8/29/52, the results of the credit and criminal checks and the neighborhood investigations were forwarded to the local CSI Office, New York City and no further investigations have been made by this office. RECORDED-12 LWR INH APPROPRIATE AGENCIES AND FIELD OFFICES. ADVISED BY ROUTING SLIP(S) OF 0640 INDEXED:12 7-1990 DATE SECURITY INFORMATION CONFIDENTIAL 670CT181252
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.