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
Director, FBI RE: DETROIT FLYING SAUCER CLUB ESPIONAGE - X 2. Group representation to the Board of Directors of the club. The group leaders are supposed to control discussion, and not offend any religious belief. At this meeting, a group leader, Detroit, said that opposed group meetings because of accusations against them of subversive activities. An unidentified person said he did not think it true, but it was alleged one member of the Board of Directors was a Communist. answered this by saying he would mention no names, but the accuser should see him about this, and the accused was not a Communist. He said fellow travellers could get in or infiltrate the club, but he was at a loss as to any way of controlling that. As a result of this meeting, felt the group was either subversive, or a new religious group. He felt it all stems from ADAMSKI in California. He said one a flying saucer speaker, had moved to Detroit. At this meeting, said that had saucer landings occurred in Detroit, in October, the group leaders would have been first to know it. He said he reported to ADAMSKI the predictions of MARXER and ADAMSKI felt she should not predict more than 30 days in advance, and, even that was no good sometimes. On November 4, 1954, said I. advised him another addition to his group was and also, Farmington. him she was resigning from the Board of Directors of the Club as she had too many outside interests, and she had to eat. She said she was going to show the film, "The Day the Earth Stood Still", around Michigan, as a result of having met two men (not named). She said ADANSKI, in California, was her God, even admitting his earthly faults. urnished this office on November 13, 1954, some literature put out by East Lansing, Michigan, which obtained at a flying saucer discussion or class. 's material is in the form of a letter, with attachments to American editors and Publishers, stating
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.