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.
“FBI file”12 pages
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Transmit the following teletype message to: PHOTOGRAPHS AND TO OBTAIN WHAT INFO THEY CAN ON SAUCERS FROM THE GOVERNMENT. CLAIMED HE KNEW OF NO INFO THEY HAD WHICH MIGHT EFFECT THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OR INTERNAL SECURITY OF THE U.S. HE NEW YORK CITY, THE ROUND TRIP REQUIRING ONLY 30 MINUTES. SAID WAS TO COME TO DETROIT IN THE FUTURE TO SPEAK. CLAIMS SAUCER CLUBS HAVE ACTUALLY RECEIVED MESSAGES FROM OUTER SPACE AND ALTHOUGH SAYS HE DOES NOT KNOW, HE FEELS THEY DO EXIST; HAVE BEEN SEEN BY MANY PEOPLE AND CLAIMS HE HAS SEEN THEM HIMSELF. HE FEELS THE PURPOSE OF CONTACTS WITH EARTH IS LIMITED AT THIS TIME TO PREPARING PEOPLE TO RECEIVE LANDINGS FROM OUTER SPACE. HE SAID THE SAUCERS ARE FRIENDLY TO U.S. HE SAID MESSAGES RECEIVED INDICATE ALL PLANETS BUT EARTH HAVE CONQUERED OUTER SPACE. OUTER SPACE PEOPLE CONSIDER THOSE ON EARTH THE LOWEST PORT OF UNIVERSAL EXISTENCE. IMPRESSED AGENTS AS BEING ONLY A LAYMAN (FORMERLY IN USAF, WW II) WHO HAS BEEN CARRIED BEYOND THE REALM OF SCIENTIFIC FACT INTO THAT OF POSSIBLE SCIENTIFIC FICTION. CLAIMS THAT DR. WHO WAS DISMISSED FOR HIS ACTIVITIES AND PREVIOUS PREDICTIONS OF GEOLOGIC UPHEAVALS WHICH WERE TO HAVE OCCURRED 12-21-54, WAS MISUNDERSTOOD BUT ALLOWED HIS THINKING TO DWELL TOO MUCH ON
FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 148 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.