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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. 38 …In Seattle, for instance, an alarmed woman called the police to inform them that a flaming…
  • p. 113 …Sincerely yours, COMM-FBI John Edgar Hoover Director cc - Seattle, with copy of incoming and copy…
  • p. 115 # Aerial Phenomena Research Group Seattle, Washington Headquarters: 5108 Findlay Street Bob Gribble Executive Director Dear Sir…
  • p. 116 …The address for this organization was shown to be 5108 Finlay Street, Seattle, Washington. IES DESTROYED…
  • p. 117 …2 - Bureau (Encls.2) 1 - Seattle (Encl.1) 1 - Richmond RET:fec (4)
## Mr. J. Patrick Coyne

## b7c

You will be advised of any further information which may be received regarding and the information furnished by him.

Pursuant to your request, Mr. letter is returned herewith.

Sincerely yours,

Enclosure

Edgar Hoover

1 - Office of Security Department of State

1 - Director Central Intelligence Agency Attention Deputy Director, Plans

1 - Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence Department of the Army Attention: Chief, Security Division

1 - Director of Naval Intelligence

1 - Office of Special Investigations Air Force

1 - Immigration and Naturalization Service

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.