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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.

  • p. 90 …Bufiles reflect that an unidentified flying object was sighted near Socorro, New Mexico, on April 24…
  • p. 107 …UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT BOCORRO, NEW MEXICO APRIL 24, 1964 MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING (NATIONALITIES INTELLIGENCE) Re Albuquerque…
  • p. 109 SAC, ALBUQUERQUE (62-1028) UNIDENTIFIED PLYING OBJECT SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO. .4/24/64 Re Albuquerque teletypes…
  • p. 110 …It may be noted that New Mexico State Police Sergeant M. S. CHAVEZ and Socorro County…
  • p. 112 …4/28/64 SAC, ALBUQUERQUE (62-1028) UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT, SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO, 4/24/64…
  • p. 113 …was at Socorro, New Mexico, 4/24/64, and had noted the four irregular burned spots…
  • p. 117 …CONTROL, DISARMAMENT AGENCY IN SOUTHWEST STATES INCLUDING NEW MEXICO. NOT KNOWN IF ABOVE INCIDENT RELATES TO…

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FEDERAL FORCE OF INVESTIGATION

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

COMMUNICATIONS SECTION

APR 27 1964

TELETYPE

FBI WASH DC

3:06 AM MST DEFERRED 4/27/64 JNS

TO DIRECTOR

RE ALBUQUERQUE TEL FOUR TWENTYFIVE LAST. OSI. ALBUQUERQUE ADVISES INCIDENT NOT KNOWN TO BE CONN WITH MILITARY OR OPERATION CLOUD GAP.

AN ADDITIONAL INCIDENT HAS BEEN REPORTED AS HAPPENING AT ONE AM, FOUR TWENTYSIX LAST, AT LA MADERIA, N.M., ABOUT SEVENTY MILES NORTH OF SANTA FE, N.M.

ESPANOLA, N.M., ADVISES NE

INTERVIEWED ONLY KNOWN WITNESS,

AGE THIRTYFIVE, SOBER

AND FRIGHTENED, OF SANTA FE, N.M.

WAS VISITING HIS FATHER

AT LA MADERIA.

VENT OUT TO TEND SOME

NOISY HORSES AT ABOUT ONE AM. FOUR TWENTYSIX LAST AND NOTED,

LOCATED ABOUT THREE HUNDRED FEET FROM HOUSE, SOMETHING SHAPED LIKE A

BUTANE TANK, POSSIBLY TWELVE TO FOURTEEN FEET HIGH, AND LONG AS

A TELEPHONE POLE. APPARENTLY ON THE GROUND AND SURRONDED WITH

END PAGE ONE

1FU

58 MAI 5 1964

MR. MONK FOR THE DIRECTOR

Cases discussed

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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.