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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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  • p. 37 …CIVILIAN RESEARCH, INTERPLANETARY FLYING OBJECTS LEONARD H. STRINGFIELD, Director 7017 Britton Avenue Cincinnati 27, Ohio MISCELLANEOUS…
  • p. 38 …STRINGFIELD who is the Director of the captioned organization Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying Objects, in October…
  • p. 39 October 1, 1954 issue of the "Newsletter", supra, and also reports on STRINGFIELD's interview with…
  • p. 41 …CIVILIAN RESEARCH INTERPLANETARY FLYING OBJECTS LEONARD H. STRINGFIELD, Director, 7017 Britton Avenue Cincinnati 27, Ohio MISCELLANEOUS…
  • p. 42 …On the first page of this "Newsletter" STRINGFIELD reports that he had a private talk with…
  • p. 43 …He advised that STRINGFIELD is director of this organization and is assisted by his wife, that…
  • p. 44 …continued that he believes STRINGFIELD is now afraid to proceed too much for fear the Air…
  • p. 46 …He reported the incident to Leonard H Stringfield, 7017 Britton Avenue, Madison Place, director of civilian…
  • p. 48 …In a newsletter to be issued Friday by the research bureau, Stringfield reported results of a…
  • p. 50 …Box 1855 Copyright 1954 by Len H. Stringfield EXCLUSIVE: PRIVATE TALK WITH LT. COLONEL JOHN O…
  • p. 137 …A newspaper article captioned "Death and Funerals, L.R. "PAT,STRINGFIELD; decorated war hero", appeared in…
  • p. 138 …Astronomers for years have observed shifting spots on the moon.' Stringfield said he believes U.S…
  • p. 140 …FLYING OBJECTS, LEONARD H. STRINGFIELD DIRECTOR, CINCINNATI, OHIO Leonard H. Stringfield, Advertising Manager, DuBois Chemical Company…
  • p. 141 …Stringfield advised that it is not unusual that he receives telephone calls concerning unidentified objects, inasmuch…
  • p. 142 …C., Major Donald Ke. de, Director. Mr. Stringfield noted that the personnel of this committee are…
At this time there appears to be no necessity for additional instructions for the field or insertion in the FBI Handbook or Manuals relative to flying saucers.

Lemorandum 9-30-60 pointed out that our policy concerning unidentified flying objects is to conduct no investigation but immediately refer facts to the Air Force (Burcáu 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 33, 3-29-52, again pointed out our policy; that Air Force on 11-12-57 assured that Bureau would be advised of 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 naucers has been received. The facts in this complaint were immediately referred to the Air Force.

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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 10-1-62.

2-33394.

1 - lr. sullivan

I - Donchoe

1 - Wacks

64 OCT 9 1961

Cases discussed

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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.