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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.

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Date: August 14, 1957

To: Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington R5, D. C.

From: John Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation

Subject: FLYING DICKS

There is attached a copy of a self- explanatory letter dated August 1, 1952, received by this Bureau from Mrs. Avenue, Fairmont, Test Virginia, relating to the captioned matter.

"rs. letter has been acknowledged and she has been informed that a copy of her letter has been furnished to your office for a propriate attention. No further action is contemplated in this matter by this Bureau.

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Bureau files fail to reflect any information that can be identified with Prs.

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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.