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 he feels they should publish it. He claims messages are received by extra sensory perception from other planets, which are watching the earth. He said one Mrs. Illinois, receives the messages, mostly as lessons for flying saucer clubs. He said she one day picked up her pencil, and it began to write for her in the form of these messages (apparently, it has been writing ever since). Letters to editors are dated August 30, 1954 and September 17, 1954. Writings are set out as recordings, all in 1954, from April to August 27, 1954. One dated April 24, 1954, captioned "Telepathy Our Common Means of Communication Dr. Lansing, Michigan". It says he was a physician and psychiatrist who suffered much, and was prosecuted for his unorthodox lessons in mental Lansing, Michigan". It says he was a physician and psychiatrist who suffered much, and was prosecuted for his unorthodox lessons in mental disease. He seems to be the contact with outer space. In his September 17, 1954 letter, states an important date is December 21, 1954, with the center of activity being the midwest. There will be an earthquake, buildings will fall, Lake Michigan will rise in a wave extending to Lake Erie, and here and elsewhere, he describes how the entire world will change geologically. On November 23, 1951, called to advise he was going to do a story on the Dead and their activities. He inquired whether the FBI was investigating the club, and was advised we could make no statement one way or another regarding the organization. It is not known the date his story will appear. The Detroit Office has conducted no investigation of the DFSC, and has received its information from those indicated above, who are voluntarily furnishing it. No investigation of the club is contemplated at this time. Detroit has no identifiable subversive information on the officers of the club, or of mentioned in the Director's letter of October 8, 1954, above, has already come to the attention of the Bureau. He first came to the attention of Detroit Office, in 1912. No then used the pen name , was considered a religious fanatic, wrote widely on religious subjects, was connected with "The narbingers", a "Unity Movement" group in Kansas City, and claimed objection to combatant military service in World War II. He has not been the subject of an investigation by Detroit.
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.