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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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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

COMMUNICATIONS SECTION

NOV 7 1957

URGENT 11-7-57 4-55 PM EST WHH TO DIRECTOR FBI FLYING DISCS FROM SAC, DETROIT 1P

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS, IS - X. REBUTEL NOV SIX LAST. DOB FEB

INETEEN, NINETEEN TWENTYSIX, WARSAW, POLAND, WAS GERMAN POW MAY, NINETEEN FORTY TWO, UNTIL SUMMER OF NINETEEN FOURTYFIVE. ARRIVED NY MAY TWO, NINETEEN FIFTYONE, AS DP, AR NO. AR

ADVISED THAT WHILE GERMAN POW DURING NINETEEN FORTYFOUR OBSERVED

VEHICLE WAS OBSERVED TO SLOWLY RISE VERTICALLY TO HEIGHT SUFFICIENT TO CLEAR FIFTY FOOT WALL AND TO MOVE SLOWLY HORIZONTALLY A SHORT DISTANCE OUT OF VIEW OBSTRUCTED BY TREES ENGINE OF TRACTOR FAILED TO OPERATE DURING THIS PERIOD AND ONE OTHER OCCASION WHEN HIGH PITCHED WHINNING NOISE HEARD IN AREA. NO INDICATION OF MENTAL INSTABILITY DURING INTERVIEW. FURTHER DETAILS FOLLOW AMSD.

E CORRECT LINE FOUR WORD WX FOUR SHLD BE "TWO"

END AND A X PLS

X 4-58 PM OK FBI WA EW

TU DIC

RECORDED-84

INDEXED-84

Mr. Belmont

NOV 13 1957

EX 105

Cases discussed

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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.