Documents / FOIA release
This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section collects 1954 to 1961 correspondence and memoranda about flying saucers. Most of it concerns the Detroit Flying Saucer Club, which the Detroit office reported on from informants and chose not to investigate, while Bureau headquarters said saucer matters belonged to the Air Force. It also includes public letters to J. Edgar Hoover, a 1955 North Carolina sighting report, Leonard Stringfield's 1961 anonymous warning call, and policy reviews that restate the practice of referring reports to the Air Force.
“Stringfield”15 pages
of suf reports. During my ensu interrogation by two Army Counter-Intelligence Corps members at Fort Monroe became fully aware that UFO's, or flying saucers, were being treated with grave respect by our military intelligence experts; so, I decided to reveal their official, behind scenes attitude to the public, doing so in a lengthy re issued in 1960. The report 1 had taken five months to the rounds of the review-clearance mill, but was finally cleared for publication in February 1960. Despite a subsequent admonition from the Civilian Personnel Officer at Fort Monroe to give up my campaign seeking the truth about UFO secrecy, I have continued to amass evidence against the censors. And the censors still persist in making themselves known to me. It is certain a vicious cycle of verbal pushing and pulling, with the victor of the conflict being not really myself or the censors but you readers, who represent the general public ## --- The next episode concerns a draft newspaper "letter to the editor" that I wrote in the spring of 1959, and I duly submitted to USCONARC for review and clearance. USCONARC declined to clear the manuscript, asserting, other things, the following nonconcurrences:
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. 148 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.