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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 13

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 148 pages · text by GLM-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. 14 …HE REPLIED HE OR THE CLUB WOULD BE WILLING TO COOPERATE WITH ANYONE AT ANY TIME…
  • p. 49 …Working in cooperative secrecy they have enforced a bowstring-tight conspiracy of censorship. A recent example…
  • p. 50 …AIR FORCE PLANS COOPERATION WITH PUBLIC. The greatest story involving Earth and Space may soon be…
  • p. 69 …This cooperation between the government and its citizenry would clear the atmosphere of fear and suspicion…

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- Office Memoranaum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Director, FB1

DATE: 8/2/54

: SAC, Cincinnati (62-0)

FLYING SAUCER REPORT INFORMATION CONCERNING

For Greater Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio, called this office on 7/23/54 to report that he had received a report of a flying saucer from Mr. Milford, Ohio. Mr. said that he could be reached at his residence which is

reported to that both he and his wife, at approximately 2:40 p.m. on 7/23/54, had observed a silver circular or spherical shape in the sky which was located to the southeast of their residence, approximately forty-five degrees above the horizon.

was advised that the report made by him was being referred to the appropriate officials of the United States Air Force.

I have advised the local office of the Office of Special Investigations at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base of the above.

RDH:BL

RECORDED - 154 162-83894-345

INDEXED - 154

EX-130

22 10 9 T 26

## 61 AUG 11 1954

Cases discussed

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FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 148 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.