Documents / FOIA release
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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Office Me 2ndum • UNITE GOVERNMENT TO : DIRECTOR FDI DATE: 11-8-57 SAC-KANSAS CITY (66-2995) subject: FLYING DISCS INFORMATION CONCERNING On November 5, 1957, SA (A) received information from Mr. Kansas City, Missouri that an uncle, or employed by an aircraft concern and residing at Fort Worth, Texas, about two years ago saw an unidentified subject in the sky near his home. He obtained his movie camera and took pictures of the object. About eighteen months ago the uncle visited in Kansas City and the movies of the flying disc were shown. According to the pictures were very good and consisted of about fifteen feet of film. Mr. stated that he and his uncle have felt "foolish" when discussing the matter and never bothered to report it. He said however, in view of the late international developments he felt that the Government should have this information. In view of the fact that the Bureau may be interested in this film, it is requested that the Dallas Office at Fort Worth, Texas locate and interview or obtain the film for transmittal to the Bureau. It is suggested that the Bureau, after reviewing the film, advise the Office of Special Investigations, USAF, of any pertinent information deemed appropriate. 2 - Bureau 1 - Kansas City (66-2995) 64 NOV 18 1957 F492-
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.