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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.
“Stringfield”15 pages
This interview is predicated upon a telephone call received by b7c SAC L. L. LAUGHLIN on 7/25/54 from Bureau of Aeronautics, U. S. Navy Department. On the same date was interviewed in Room 2912, Kain Navy Building. Also present during the interview was furnished the following information: They advised that the Office of Naval Intelligence had forwarded a file to the Bureau of Aeronautics with enclosures which had been received from the Bureau and resided near who had been receiving messages through thought transmission. They approached and advised him that "flying saucers" were here to help mankind. Information received by them indicated that became interested in the messages received by and felt that the matter should be investigated by the Government. adviced that he wrote to Admiral ESPEY, Director of Naval Intelligence, on 6/1/54 enclosing some of the messages received by Receiving no reply to his original communication, again wrote ONI on 6/7/54. He advised that the first letter that he wrote to ONI contained information that was receiving messages through thought control from "outer space" and wrote them down as she received them. The letter, according to the letter, stated that he would write without any effort on her part and would write continuously for four or five hours at a time without getting tired. He stated that ONI had in their possession the transmissions or messages that had been received by stated that ONI had advised that in the absence of any 67C definite evidence of conversations, they would do nothing in the matter. He also stated that the Bureau of Aeronautics took no official action in
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