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.
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Memorandum TO DIRECTOR, FBI (62-83894) DATE: 10/17/61 SAC, CINCINNATI (100-11671) Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying Objects, Leonard M. Stringfield Director, Cincinnati, Ohio MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING For the information of the Bureau, there is a letterhead memorandum captioned as above relative to information received from LEONARD H. STRINGFIELD on September 25, 1961, and on October 2, 1961, by SA One copy of letterhead memorandum has been disseminated locally to OSI, Cincinnati, Ohio. For completion of the Bureau's file concerning matters relating to LEONARD H. STRINGFIELD, the following is set forth: A newspaper article captioned "Death and Funerals, L.R. "PAT,STRINGFIELD; decorated war hero", appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer, a newspaper of general circulation in the Greater Cincinnati, Ohio, area, dated June 15, 1960, reflects that LEONARD R. "PAT" STRINGFIELD, a much decorated veteran of World War I, and one of the chapter members of Chapter 1 of the disabled American Veterans in Cincinnati, died at his home, 2495 Harrison Avenue, at age 62. This article further reflects that one of his sons, LEONARD H. STRINGFIELD, Mariemont, is known nationally for his researches into the study of unidentified flying objects, and holds views on the subject which have attracted the attention of the Federal Government. The article identified Mr. 2 Bureau (Enc. 5) 1 - Cincinnati REC-69 42-2174-421 OCT 25 1961 64 OCT 31 1961 CRIME RESEARCH
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.