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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 13

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 148 pages · text by 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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“Office of Special Investigations”12 pages

  • p. 1 …There is enclosed a letter to the Office of Special Investigations in this matter.
  • p. 10 …copies of a letter recently forwarded to this office by the Director of Special Investigations, Alaska…
  • p. 18 CEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Transmit the following Teletype message to: FBI…
  • p. 22 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25…
  • p. 32 …of incoming and enclosures sent by form to the Office of Special Investigations, Department of the…
  • p. 58 Dates August 9, 1954 Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force…
  • p. 61 …to the Office of Special Investigations, United States Air Force, for any investigation deemed appropriate, and…
  • p. 66 …is being made available to the Office of Special Invesitgations, United States Air Force, and no…
  • p. 67 …I have advised the local office of the Office of Special Investigations at Wright-Patterson Air…
  • p. 81 …These photographs were turned over to the Office of Special Investigations of the United States Air…
  • p. 95 …The individual interviewed was a police officer of the MAIL ROOM TELETYPE MUT
  • p. 97 …Special Agent of our Norfolk Office. States SA contacted him in response to a letter of…
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum

to : W. C. Sullivan

DATE: 10/2/62

FROM : W. R. Wannall

Belena

Ron

Caryn

Calipha

Caren

Beloch

Cress

Helena

Ross

Bullina

Torval

Tritrix

Tav. Rea

Belena

Gandy

SUBJECT: UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (FLYING SAUCERS)

Awarded

At this time there appears to be no necessity for cdditional instructions for the field or insertion in the FBI Handbook or Manuals relative to flying saucers.

Memorandum 10/2/61 pointed out that our policy concerning unidentified flying objects is to conduct no investigation but immediately refer facts to the Air Force (Bureau Bulletin Number 57, 10/1/47); that SAC Letter Number 38, 3/25/49, reiterated this policy and set out data desired by Air Force to be obtained when complaint received; that SAC Letter Number 83, 8/29/52, again pointed out our policy; that Air Force on 11/12/57 assured that Bureau would be advised if any developments in this field of interest to us; and that there appeared to be no necessity for further instructions to field or insertion in agents' Handbook or Manual of Instructions of our policy relating to flying saucers.

During the past 12 months only one complaint regarding flying saucers has been received. The facts in this complaint were immediately referred to the Air Force.

For your information. There appears to be no necessity for additional instructions for the field or insertion in the FBI Handbook or Manuals relative to flying saucers. This matter will again be reviewed on or about 10/1/63.

ACTION:

62-83894

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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.