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
# UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Transmit the following Teletype message to: FBI, DETROIT 1-12-55 DIRECTOR, FBI (62-83894) DETROIT FLYING SAUCER'S CLUB, ESPIONAGE-X. OAK PARK, MICH., EMPLOYED AS PARTNER, DETROIT, INTERVIEWED 1-11-55 IN BUREAU CA HAD ANY CONNECTION WITH FBI. HE CLAIMED SUCH ALLEGATION COULD HAVE ARISON AS RESULT OF QUESTIONS ASKED DURING SOME MEETING AS TO WHETHER CLUB HAD FURNISHED INFORMATION TO FBI OR OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCY. HE REPLIED HE OR THE CLUB WOULD BE WILLING TO COOPERATE WITH ANYONE AT ANY TIME. HE WAS CAUTIONED TO MAKE NO REPRESENTATION OR STATEMENT LEAVING THE IMPRESSION HE HAD ANY CONNECTION WITH FBI. AS TO REPORTING TO WASHINGTON, SAID HE AND ANOTHER CLUB DIRECTOR, WERE GOING TO WASHINGTON, D.C. TO PRESENT THEIR INFORMATION "TO THE PENTAGON" AND THEY HOPED TO SEE "SOMEONE IN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE". SAID THEY INTENDED TAKING WITH THEM SOMEONE, OR POSSIBLY TWO, WHO HAD ACTUALLY SIGHTED SAUCERS. IF THEY GET NO ONE TO GO THEY WILL GET AFFIDAVITS FROM SAUCER SIGHTERS. THEIR PURPOSE IN GOING IS TO FURNISH WHAT INFO THEY HAVE (THIS IS IN POSSESSION OF THE CLUB): ON FLYING SAUCERS, SIGHTING OF THEM, IN AFFIDAVIT FORM, POSSIBLY RBS:AMW (4) 65-2677 Approved District Special Agent In Charge NOV 19 1964
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.