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
December 17, 1954 42-83894-354 EX-130 Thousana Palms, California Your letter dated December 6, 1954, has been received. Although I would like to be of service, information in FBI files is confidential and available for official use only. I would like to point out also that this Bureau is strictly a fact-finding agency and does not make evaluations or draw conclusions as to the character or integrity of any individual, publication or organization. I know you will uncerstane the reason for these rules and will not infer either that we do or that we do not have the information you desire. Sincerely youre, 10 John Sugar Hoover Director mO7RES NOTE: "Aboard a Flying Saucer" is not identifiable in Bufiles. It is to be noted that correspondent did not furnish its author's name. Per call to the Library of Congress "Aboard a Flying Saucer" was written by Truman Bethurum. In June, 1954, an inquiry was made by the Cincinnati Office concerning Bethurum and his flying disk lectures since that office had received a complaint similar to current correspondent's. (62-83894-342) No other references were located which might be identical with subject of current inquiry. DCL1r0 (3) COMM - FBI DEC 1 7 1954 MAILED 24 Del
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.