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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.

  • p. 11 Ltr to FBI, File 27-0-718, RE: CHARLES A. YOST, OC Research Laboratory, St. Clair…
  • p. 19 …Although I would like to be of service, information in FBI files is confidential and available…
  • p. 89 …While I would like to be of assistance to you, the files of the FBI must…
  • p. 92 …advise that information contained in the files of the FBI is confidential and available only for…
  • p. 95 …MAILED 19 JUL 13 1964 COMM-FBI Sincerely yours, 3. Edgar Hoover John Edgar Hoover Director…
  • p. 97 …for the files.'" Also states that SA volunteered the following: "If the FBI has any such…
  • p. 98 …Also, the phraseology used by regarding SA reference to the confidential nature of FBI files could…
  • p. 104 …a "memorandum for the files." Volunteered the following: "If the FBI has any such data on…
  • p. 126 …Director, FBI NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA RESEARCH (CORRESPONDENCE AND TOURS) BUDED 9-25-63 Enclosed are two…
  • p. 129 …That agency submitted a copy of that correspondence to the FBI, Norfolk. Files further reflect that…
  • p. 130 …Fort Eustis, Virginia, advised SA that files in her possession reflect that who was born, 2…
  • p. 137 Memorandum TO DIRECTOR, FBI (62-83894) DATE: 10/17/61 SAC, CINCINNATI (100-11671) Civilian Research…
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Director Federal Bureau Of Investigation Washington D.C.

Subject: Inquiry about fantastic article

Dear Sir:

This may seem utterly silly, but I felt that I must write in about it.

In the August issue of MYSTIC magazine is an article telling of two men from the planet Venus who landed in a flying saucer near Barstow, California, obtained some old clothes, and hitch hiked into Los Angeles.

One of these two, the article says, got a job for a while in the missing persons office of a newspaper in Li.

On page 18, 2nd column, 3rd paragraph, NISTIC says that a Los Angeles newspaper reporter stated that he sent a "full report" about these things from another planet to the PEI.

NYSTIC also says that accompanying that account was an analysis record of a "gouged" piece of hard alloy steel which one of the Venusians is supposed to have made by running his thumb lightly across the surface of it. And that this particular analysis was made by "one of the foremost laboratories in 14."

Frankly I don't believe the article. On the other hand, I can't prove it isn't true.

If such a report was sent to you, may I purchase a photostatic copy of each page?

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act. 8-10 SIE 82 RECORDED 65-93894-347911

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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.