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
FBI ALBUQUEE COMMUNICATIONS SECTION 537 PM MST URGENT 4-4 64 RGL APR 25 1964 TO DIRECTOR, FBI TELETYPE INFORMATION RECEIVED APR TWENTY FOUR AND TWENTY FIVE, FROM CONSIDERED SOSER, DEPENDABLE, MATURE, NOT OF FANTASY. SOCORRO, N.M. THAT AT ABOUT FIVE FIFTY PM MST, WHILE IN SOUTH AREA OF SOCORRO NOTED FLAME IN SKY TO SOUTHWEST, WHICH HE DECIDED TO CHECK OUT IN BELIEF DYNAMITE SHACK IN AREA MAD BLOWN UP. WHILE TRAVELING IN ISOLATED AREA APPROXMATELY ONE MILE SOUTH AREA OF SOCORRO, NOTED IN DEPRESSION ABOUT EIGHT HUNDRED FEET AWAY WHITISH OBJECT WHICH, UPON GLANCING AT SAME, APPEARED TO BE OVERTURNED AUTOMOBILE. TWO PERSONS IN APPARENT WHITE COVERALLS WERE ADJACENT TO OBJECT. THEN TRAVELED OVER ROUGH ROAD TO SPOT ABOUT ONE HUNDRED THREE FEET FROM OBJECT AND ABOUT TWENTY TO TWENTY FIVE FEET HIGHER. NO PERSONS VISIBLE. HEARD TWO OR THREE LOUD THUMPS, LESS THAN A SECOND APART, THEN WITH A ROAR AND BLUISH AND ORANGE FLAMES. OBJECT SLOWLY VERTICALLY ROSE TO ABOUT CAR HEIGHT, THEN NOISE AND FLAME STOPPED AND OBJECT TOO OFF AT HIGH SPEED IN STRAIGHT LINE AND ALMOST HOROZONTALLY TO DISAPPEAR OVER DISTANT MOUNTAIN APR 30 1964 GREATLY FRIGHTENED, RADIOED HIS OBSERVATIONS AND QUICKLY ON SCENE. NOTED FOUR SMALL IRREGULARLY SHAPED SMOULDERING AREAS AND FOUR REGULAR DEPRESSED AREAS APPROXIMATELY SIXTEEN BY SIX INCHES IN END PAGE ONE MR. MOHR FOR THE DIRECTOR
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