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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. 4 …It was a dull gray color, traveling about 250 MPH and when it ascended their was…
  • p. 6 …Daw, 5119-7th St., N.W., Washington WEST VIRGINIA—Gray Barker, Box 981, Clarksburg Above names…
  • p. 38 …There was the case of a man in Phoenix, Arizona, who spotted a flat gray object…
  • p. 89 …about 14 feet high, consisting of dark gray stationary top and bottom sections, five to six…

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Date: 21/7/57

- Transmit the following message via al...TEL

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI 71445 SNO.

FRUCK: SAC, DETROIT (100-26505) UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; IS - X.

Re Detroit Teletype to Bureau, 11/7/57, captioned "UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; IS - X."

Interview of , aka. reported in Blank Leo, five copies of which are herewith for the Bureau, was conducted by JK

No indication of irrational or otherwise abnormal behavior was observed during the interview.

advised that his communication was directed to sir. ALSER CUTLER rather than to President LISEHROLL after seeing sir. CUTLER's picture and identification with the President's Office in a local paper.

resides with his life, nee married in 1952 at Detroit, and four small children, in a single residence in an old Polish neighborhood at Detroit. No previous record located in Detroit Inuces identifiable with or his wife.

On 11/7/57, that records of the inquiries concerning ring 6/56 and 3/57 and 6/57, which confirm his local address and employment

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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.