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.
“Headquarters”6 pages
J. Edgar Hoover , Federal Bureau of Investigation Work . H.C . Dear Mr Hoover ! - Since reading so much about flying saucers and other objects on the sky , I have decided to write you about a theory which I came to believe in 1917 One evening about 10- I saw an object in the Southwest sky. It seemed to be falling toward the Earth at about a 50° angle which would let it hit what South I use. It went behind some buildings and when I ran out to see when it might but, it was moving horizontally with the Earth's surface. Calmost immediately it started to rise and seemed to rise faster and 42-83894-316
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.