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.
“Pacific Ocean”1 page
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I am transmitting herewith certain literature concerning the captioned organization which was furnished to me by who operates the Company in San Diego and who has his office in the same building housing the FBI office. In view of the current hysteria concerning the so-called "flying saucers", I thought that the Bureau might be interested in the following information concerning the captioned organization. It is of interest to note that on Friday, August 1, 1952, at approximately 12:00 noon, asked to see me urgently, which I did. As a member of the captioned organization, he advised me that they were having a meeting at 1:00 PM the same day, inasmuch as they had been advised that they had some very important information to discuss. He went on to relate that through the means utilized by his organization (which the enclosed literature will reflect borders on the occult), they were able to prognosticate well in advance the recent earthquake which occurred in Tehachepi, California. He advised that they have also been able to obtain the following information: 1. That a very severe tidal wave will hit the Pacific Ocean sometime in the not too remote future and that most of the Japanese Islands will be washed away and disappear. 2. That all fishes with scales in Japanese waters will soon leave these waters for other destinations, in view of the oncoming tidal wave. 3. That this tidal wave will wash away the Hawaiian Islands. 4. That the West Coast of the United States will likewise be affected by this tidal wave. 5. That they prognosticated the appearance of a new island in the Pacific which was published in the newspapers within the past week. JFS:ha 71 SEP F91952 140-83894 NOT RECORDED 147-8 1952 INITIALS ON ORIGINAL
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.