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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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# August 12,1952

New Palestine, Indiana

Dear Mrs.

Your letter dated July 31, 1952, addressed to the War Department, c/o Federal Bureau of Investigation, has been received.

Your interest in furnishing your observation in this regard is appreciated.

In view of the contents of your communication which also appear to be of interest to the Department of the Air Force, I have taken the liberty of furnishing that Agency a copy of your letter.

Sincerely yours,

John Edgar Hqover Director

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INDEXED-114

AUG 14 1952

-67- 3494-304

EX-73

AUG 1.1

MAILED 20

68 AUG 22 1952

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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.