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.
“FBI file”12 pages
Dates August 9, 1954 Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25, D. C. Front John Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Subject: FLYING SAUCERS 67c MISCULLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING On July 29, 1954, Mr. John Hutson, Security Officer, Bureau of Aeronautics, United States Navy Department, and Commander L. T. McQuiston, United States Navy, furnished the following information to this Bureau. They advised that the Office of Naval Intelligence had forwarded a file to the Bureau of Aeronautics with enclosures which had been received. n.e. According to and restated near who had been receiving messages through thought transmission. approached and advised him that "flying saucers" were here to help rankind. Information received by indicated that Knowles became interested in the messages received by and felt that the matter should be investigated by the Government. advised that wrote to Admiral Eere, Director of Naval Intelligence, on June 1, 1954, enclosing some of the messages received by Receiving no reply to his original communication, again wrote to the Director of Naval Intelligence on June 7, 1954. advised that the first letter that cc - 1 - Records Administration Branch (0-6a routing slip) Attention: Interim Security Division (Same date) EHX: sjr:elk : J- AUG 9 1954
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.