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.
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in the matter. was questioned concerning the position that the Bureau of Aeronautics had taken and he remarked that he did not believe that this was pertinent. After further questioning, he subsequently stated that the Bureau of Aeronautics was of the belief that this was a matter for OMl. stated that he "unofficially" became interested in the matter and at the invitation of he went to where he spent 7/24,25,26/54 in the residence of stated that he informed Admiral SAUCEK, his superior in the Bureau of Aeronautics, that he was going to visit stated that inasmuch as had received no response from the Government concerning this matter, he began reading books on flying saucers. advised that during the time that he was a house guest of there was also present who was also interested in flying saucers. stated that was at residence with his family and was there in an unofficial capacity. advised that during his stay, he and had various interviews with and had contact with the "outer space" through During the interview with and the contact with "outer space," stated that they sat in a group and he observed writing messages that she was receiving from someone in "outer space." According to informed him that the people from "outer space" could use her eyes and ears to see and hear. According to this is accomplished by the use of a mechanical device and all conversations are recorded by the people in "outer space." Indicated as an example as to how messages were relayed, he stated that he asked a question which she was to relay to the people in "outer space" and before she had time to relay the question, she began writing the answer down to his question on paper. stated that informed him that whenever she was to have contact with the people in "outer space," she would get a buzzing sound in her left ear to indicate that they were "on the line." stated that complained to the people in "outer space" that this buzzing sound gets very annoying and painful to her ear. She also stated that the messages had been coming since May 27, 1954, and would come at all times of the night and consequently she was losing a great deal of sleep. According to the schedule arranged a schedule with the people in "outer space" so that the messages would not interfere with her sleep. advised that a schedule was arranged between and the people in "outer space" that she would receive messages on the following schedule: 8:00 in the morning, 12 noon, 6:00 in the evening, every day of the week.
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.