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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 13

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 148 pages · text by OCR

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.

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  • p. 37 …CIVILIAN RESEARCH, INTERPLANETARY FLYING OBJECTS LEONARD H. STRINGFIELD, Director 7017 Britton Avenue Cincinnati 27, Ohio MISCELLANEOUS…
  • p. 38 …STRINGFIELD who is the Director of the captioned organization Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying Objects, in October…
  • p. 39 October 1, 1954 issue of the "Newsletter", supra, and also reports on STRINGFIELD's interview with…
  • p. 41 …CIVILIAN RESEARCH INTERPLANETARY FLYING OBJECTS LEONARD H. STRINGFIELD, Director, 7017 Britton Avenue Cincinnati 27, Ohio MISCELLANEOUS…
  • p. 42 …On the first page of this "Newsletter" STRINGFIELD reports that he had a private talk with…
  • p. 43 …He advised that STRINGFIELD is director of this organization and is assisted by his wife, that…
  • p. 44 …continued that he believes STRINGFIELD is now afraid to proceed too much for fear the Air…
  • p. 46 …He reported the incident to Leonard H Stringfield, 7017 Britton Avenue, Madison Place, director of civilian…
  • p. 48 …In a newsletter to be issued Friday by the research bureau, Stringfield reported results of a…
  • p. 50 …Box 1855 Copyright 1954 by Len H. Stringfield EXCLUSIVE: PRIVATE TALK WITH LT. COLONEL JOHN O…
  • p. 137 …A newspaper article captioned "Death and Funerals, L.R. "PAT,STRINGFIELD; decorated war hero", appeared in…
  • p. 138 …Astronomers for years have observed shifting spots on the moon.' Stringfield said he believes U.S…
  • p. 140 …FLYING OBJECTS, LEONARD H. STRINGFIELD DIRECTOR, CINCINNATI, OHIO Leonard H. Stringfield, Advertising Manager, DuBois Chemical Company…
  • p. 141 …Stringfield advised that it is not unusual that he receives telephone calls concerning unidentified objects, inasmuch…
  • p. 142 …C., Major Donald Ke. de, Director. Mr. Stringfield noted that the personnel of this committee are…
RE: DETROIT FLYING SAUCER CLUB ESPIONAGE - X

He said the club was going to petition the President of the United States to make public all government information on flying saucers. He also stated that by letter, September 25, 1954, advised him he was a group leader in the club, and his duties would be to keep up with latest developments and advise his group, the names of which he would receive from Miss

The Detroit Free Press of September 29, 1954, said in an article that the DFSC met September 28, 1954, and DESMOND LESLIE, British flying saucer authority, spoke, stating that GEORGE ADAHSKI made contact two years ago with space people in a California desert.

Mr advised he received a letter September 30, 1954, from the discussion group in the Farmington area as:

He received a letter from her October 4, 1954, adding to the above list:

on October 13, 1954, said that he asked him to call a meeting October 18, 1954. At this time, he said he felt he knew less about the club than anyone; but he thought it would make a good cover for subversive activities.

No advised the object of group discussions, according to MA'YER, was:

1. To indoctrinate people to receive space people.

2. (Mass landings in Detroit in October (not further explained.)

Cases discussed

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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.