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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 13

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 148 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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.

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  • p. 41 …be disseminated by the Bureau to OSI headquarters and to the Department. Copies of the enclosures…
  • p. 98 …This included a letter to the Commanding Officer, Headquarters, Aircraft Fleet, Atlantic U. S. Naval Base…
  • p. 100 …We return first to 1958, to Fort Monroe, Va., headquarters of the U. S. Continental Army…
  • p. 102 …Attempts to extract UFO data from this headquarters USCONARC cannot be met. Suggest contact be made…
  • p. 129 …directed a letter to Commanding Officer, Headquarters, Aircraft Fleet, Marine Force Atlantic, U. S. Naval Base…
  • p. 141 …report sightings of unidentified objects to the headquarters, Air Defense Command, at Columbus, Ohio. He stated…

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Calls concerning subject matter are being referred immediately to Major Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque.

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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. 148 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.