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
Personnel Section, Federal Bureau of Investigation, U. S. Dept. of Justice, 9th & Pennsylvania, Washington, D. C. Gentlemen There is a gentleman, a man who has published, or caused to be published, a book dealing with "Flying Saucers". In public and in private the man infers that he is a former member of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Is this true? It is my personal opinion that the man is using the churches for his private gain. (Tax free, no doubt.) which has coupled his "Flying Saucers" with a religious theme in such a manner that he is invited to occupy the pulpit in churches around the land. He will be coming again to my church in a few weeks, and on the occasion of his other visit told several quite patent lies. I am not aware that he has broken the law in any respect, but from a moral standpoint, he is, I feel, worse than a law-breaker. All of this is done in a manner indicating that he is rather careless of the truth, yet the sort of thing that is pretty hard to pin down. This Doctor of What? -- has never been explained.) is very careful of his wording, in speech and in writing, inferring many things, yet doing so in a manner that will allow him to deny them, if necessary. He quite skilfully avoids answering directly to direct questions. I would appreciate knowing if he is, in truth, a former member of your organization. If this man is either by law, or morally, a fraud I am quite opposed to his appearance in my church. Sincerely, NEC-12 $ 6 \div - 8 = 7 4 \div 1 3 $
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.