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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. 30 …However, the ability to measure these phenomena does not seem to have advanced in stop with…
  • p. 35 …from the fact that reasonable theories could be advanced to explain away all the reports of…
  • p. 69 …borders on the occult), they were able to prognosticate well in advance the recent earthquake which…
  • p. 115 …All names and addresses will be held strictly confidential, to be used only when contacting the…

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Date: August 20, 1952

To: Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25, D. C.

From John Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation

Object: FLEET SERVICE

APPROPRIATE AGENCIES

AND FIELD OFFICES

ADVISED BY ROUTING

SLIP(S) OF 2041

DATE 9/4/72

There is attached a communication which was enclosed with a letter dated July 23, 1958, from Mr. Brooklyn New York, relative to the optioned letter.

Ir. letter has been acknowledged and he has been informed that this communication has been furnished to your office for appropriate attention. No further action is contemplated in this matter by this Bureau.

Cases discussed

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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.