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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 12

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 142 pages · text by 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. 5 …The decision was reached, never again. On this small planet they'd ever land. Wars, corruption…
  • p. 21 …Captain Ruppelt advised Colonel Young that they have never indicated in any way that the FBI…
  • p. 28 …Furthermore, Captain Ruppelt stated that the FBI to his knowledge has never been called upon to…
  • p. 40 that—that while the information they give me may be made their names never will be…
  • p. 44 …Excuse me please if I misspelled your name, but I never saw it in writing. On…
  • p. 99 …stated that he and his uncle have felt "foolish" when discussing the matter and never bothered…
  • p. 129 …great and powerful people, their like has never been from of old nor will be again…
Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

DATE: August 8, 1952

Reference is made to a letter from the Cincinnati Office dated August 6, 1952, submitting an anonymous letter in German concerning so-called "Flying Saucers."

Attached are 7 copies of a translation of this German material prepared in the Cryptanalysis-Translation Section.

No reply has been made by us to the August 6, 1952, letter from Cincinnati.

RECOMMENDATION:

That the Domestic Intelligence Division review the Cincinnati submission and accompanying Bureau translation, for appropriate handling, noting particularly a suggestion in the last paragraph of the Cincinnati letter to consider making this information available to other Governmental Agencies.

62-83894

INN:jen

Attachment

58 SEP 2 1952

EX-73

Cases discussed

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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.