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.
“Office of Special Investigations”12 pages
CEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Transmit the following Teletype message to: FBI, DETROIT 1/5/55 DIRECTOR: FBI (62-83894) AIRTEL DETROIT FLYING SAUCERS CLUB, ESP-X. WHO IS A MEMBER OF ABOVE CLUB, ADVISED THAT TWICE HAS STATED HE IS "WORKING IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE FBI AND HAS BEEN TOLD TO REPORT TO WASHINGTON, D.C. FOR A CONFERENCE." REPORTEDLY SAID HE HAS BEEN INSTRUCTED TO BRING ANOTHER CLUB OFFICER, WITH HIM. ARE COUSINS. WHEN THE TIME CAME TO GO TO WASHINGTON, SAID IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO GO AND THEY WOULD DO SO LATER. BOTH OF STATEMENTS WERE MADE WITHIN PAST MONTH. THE DETROIT OFFICE IS PREPARING A REPORT SUITABLE FOR DISSEMINATION ON THIS CLUB. IMMEDIATELY AFTER 1/15/55, WILL BE INTERVIEWED BY DETROIT REGARDING ABOVE STATEMENTS, REPRIMANDED AND CAUTIONED TO REFRAIN FROM SUCH IN THE FUTURE, UACB. A REPORT WILL THEN BE SUBMITTED. MC INTIRE END NO. 1755 战-116 : 62-83894 - 355 RBS: JEP #5 (4) OC. MR. BELMONT AND TOTETINOR LAND INTEL DIVISION 20 JAN 6 1955 65-2677 AIRTEL Approved: Special Agent in Charge Bent___ M Per___
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.