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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.

  • 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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The Pull G of the Moon is much greater than its Push. I is Pull causes higher tides here on Earth than the Pull of the Sun. Not because it is greater than the Pull of the Sun [the Sun may be many times greater] but because it is much greater in proportion to its Push. The greatest Pull of the Moon is centered on the side facing the Earth. This greatest Pull separates the moon from turning, except as it rotates around Earth. This great Pull is locked with Earth's Pull at Equator and so the Moon changes over our Equator. But the greatest Push of Earths Pull combines with that of the moon and holds them apart. Another moon, or a comet, or any small body, coming into the Solar system from space; at the right angle; and with the right proportion: of Pr P S. Could attack itself to the Sun or any of its Planets. If it were the Earth it would circle us at

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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.