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.
“Cooper”4 pages
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## REG22 JUL 20 2 W PH '66 REC'D~READING ROOM F B I I received your letter on July 15th, with enclosure, which is being returned herewith. For your information, the investigation of identified Flying Objects is not and never has been a matter that is within the investigative jurisdiction of the FBI. I can assure you the photograph which you forwarded does not represent employees of this Bureau and the FBI has never had custody of an occupant from a foreign planet. JUI 211566 MAILED 4 COMM-FBI Sincerely yours, J. Edgar Hoover Enclosure NOTE: Correspondent is not identifiable in Bufiles. Enclosure was a photograph of an apparently emaciated child holding the hand of two male adults. Relations with "Real" magazine have not been desirable. The article which appeared in a recent issue of this magazine purported to be an actual report of unidentified flying objects and has been brought to the attention of the Bureau previously. In view of the fictional aspects of the article and the relations with "Real" magazine no contact was made with the magazine regarding the representation of FBI Agents. BGH:lwp (4) 50 JUL 29 1966 TELETYPE UNIT 00m7
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.