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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. 15 …you can send actual voice to IFSB headquarters. In this way, I as President, could send…
  • p. 106 …UFO phenomena, the Undue Secrecy by Airforce headquarters, and the suppression of public news concernin the…
  • p. 115 # Aerial Phenomena Research Group Seattle, Washington Headquarters: 5108 Findlay Street Bob Gribble Executive Director Dear Sir…
  • p. 128 …Sinai seems to have been God's headquarters for a certain maneuver at this time. Space…
  • p. 134 …stated he had received a teletype from his headquarters, reflecting that Street, Van Nuys, California, had…
  • p. 139 …he had tried to call Civil Defense headquarters in Baltimore but no one was on duty…
# EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL WASHINGTON

MEMORANDUM FOR MRS. ALAN H. BELIDNT

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, FDI

Pursuant to my conversation with you a few moments ago, there is enclosed a letter received by General Cutler's office today from Mr. Detroit 11, Michigan.

It would be appreciated if the Bureau, at its convenience, would arrange for a representative to interview for the purpose of obtaining any information in his possession in elaboration of the substance of his letter.

Your assistance in this and related matters is appreciated.

J. SMITH GREEN

Dr. Patrick Coyne

ADDEDJJ: I would appreciate the return of letter when it has served your purpose.

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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.