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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.
“FBI file”12 pages
# See 'Em? Saucers Cover City Several Disc Objects Reported Over Cincinnati; Little Men Leave Craft in Germany, Says Here Mysterious aircraft . . . "orange-red colored, silent, disc-shaped and 60 feet in diameter." were reported hovering 300 feet over Cincinnati Monday. This was the fifth report within a week of similar objects seen around the city, always traveling in and of three. A similar wave of flying saucer reports has creeped up in five other parts of the world, including Germany, Belgium, Egypt, Argentina, Lebanon and the French Cameroons. LATEST DISCS ended here were Monday at 3 a.m. by WLW announcer Keith Wildeson. He reported the incident to Leonard H Stringfield, 7017 Britton Avenue, Madison Place, director of civilian research, interplanetary flying objects. He said the current reports "seem to indicate a pattern" in the flight of the saucers. One of Stringfield's neighbors. John H. Sundstrom, 7010 Britton Avenue, spotted formation of three discs Sunday at 5 p.m. STRINGFIELD SAID Cincinnati is supposed to be a magnetic fault line and that perhaps the saucers come here to recharge. In Muenster, Germany, 62-year-old movie projectionist Franz Hoge told the news agency DPA that he saw a "flying saucer" land in a field and peculiarly shaped creatures got out. Hoge said he noticed a bright blue light and thought at first it came from a crashed airplane. On closer examination, he declared, he discovered a "cigar-shaped" craft hovering about six feet above the ground and giving off a brilliant blue radiance which nearly blinded him. Then, the movie projectionist added, "he suddenly sighted four creatures about three and one-half feet in height. He said they had "thick-set bodies, oversized heads and delicate legs" and wore rubber-like clothing. TAL CINCINNATI POST Date 10-11-54 Section News Edition
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.