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
Director, PBI ## RE: DETROIT FLYING SAUCER CLUB ESPIONAGE - X to organize a flying saucer club in Detroit. was behind it. She said she first met him when he came in the store to buy books on flying saucers. An organizational letter was passed out at this meeting stating the purpose of the "Flying Saucer Club of Detroit" was: 1. Exchange ideas, and in general, become aware of the flying saucer picture. 2. Invite national "saucer" speakers to Detroit, and enlighten the public. 3. Spread information on flying saucers. 4. To engage in those aspects of "saucer" interests, especially appealing to each member, such as, astronomy, engineering, spiritual, curiosity, etc. The temporary committee getting forth these aims were: Georgia National introduced Detroit, who reported seeing a flying saucer July 14, 1934, at 10:30 p.m. advised that the first official meeting of the Detroit Flying Saucer Club (DFSC) would be held August 19, 1954. The Detroit Times of August 20, 1954, in an article on the August 19, 1954 meeting, said that "Scientists were wrong in discounting the flying saucer theory" and that the Club would act as a clearing house for local sightings, and submit reports to the Army test center, Wright-Fatterson Air Force Base, Dayton. advised that the August 19, 1954 meeting consisted mostly of people saying they had seen saucers. an engineer, commented on each reported sighting. an advertising man, and a reported sightings. , Farmington, Michigan advised on September 29, 1954, that the officers of the DFSC, 6432 Cass Avenue, Detroit, were:
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.