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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.
“Edwards Air Force Base”2 pages
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# Windshield 'Cancer' Epidemic Moving To Northern Italy Mysterious windshield explosions in Italy have followed a "hurricane path" of shattering glass across theress arund yesterday appeared heading north. A United its first startings that unexplainable ear-windshield explosion have moved to Rome and then started north again, with the last case being noted one week ago at Modena, on the southern edge of the Pa River valley. In its wake the mystery has left sources of stunned motorists, many cut by glass, describing the phenomenon to puzzled authorities. They were driving along, sober folk with nothing unusual visible before them, when suddenly—crash! The "exploded" windshield splinters into a thousand pieces, crashing into their laps and often cutting the hands and face. More than once a serious crackup has been narrowly averted. What causes it? No one seems to know. Italians call it "cancer of the windshield." In its course across Italy, the "disease." which first appeared to strike American motorists in northwest U.S., has spread from automobiles to include streetcars and houses. It has occurred by day and night and seems unrelated to weather, speed or age of vehicle. Following its June appearance in the Italian Piedmont, where it struck four cars in an area of a hundred miles, the epidemic moved east and south, hit Rome a week later. The phenomenon then moved north, blasting the front glass of a big red tourist bus in Genoa. Latest case, still further north, was the literal explosion of the windshield glass of Dr. Martino Farinetti at Modena. Dr. Farinetti, en route to a clinic, was cut in the face and momentarily lost control of the car. Attempting to brake to a stop, he spun around and nearly went over in a ditch.
FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 148 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.