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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 13

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 148 pages · text by 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.

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“Office of Special Investigations”12 pages

  • p. 1 …There is enclosed a letter to the Office of Special Investigations in this matter.
  • p. 10 …copies of a letter recently forwarded to this office by the Director of Special Investigations, Alaska…
  • p. 18 CEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Transmit the following Teletype message to: FBI…
  • p. 22 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25…
  • p. 32 …of incoming and enclosures sent by form to the Office of Special Investigations, Department of the…
  • p. 58 Dates August 9, 1954 Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force…
  • p. 61 …to the Office of Special Investigations, United States Air Force, for any investigation deemed appropriate, and…
  • p. 66 …is being made available to the Office of Special Invesitgations, United States Air Force, and no…
  • p. 67 …I have advised the local office of the Office of Special Investigations at Wright-Patterson Air…
  • p. 81 …These photographs were turned over to the Office of Special Investigations of the United States Air…
  • p. 95 …The individual interviewed was a police officer of the MAIL ROOM TELETYPE MUT
  • p. 97 …Special Agent of our Norfolk Office. States SA contacted him in response to a letter of…
Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington, D. C.

FLIYING SAUCERS

- Dear Sir:

It is the responsibility of the Air Force's Project Blue Book to investigate and analyze UFO sightings. At times local or state law enforcement officials have been requested to make investigations of such cases.

After a number of recent sightings in Rehoboth, Mass., announced that the FBI had questioned at least two of the witnesses.

I am also aware of similar past cases. The color photographs taken at Grand Blanc, Michigan by Joe Perry, amateur astronomer, on February 13, 1960 is one past case. After notifying the Air Force he was referred to the FBI and an investigation was conducted by two agents from the Flint office. The photographs were subsequently furnished to the Air Force for analysis.

What is the FBI's policy with respect to this matter of investigation or such cases? Is there an official FBI regulation pertaining to FBI UFO investigatory policy, and if so, I request a copy. If this is not possible could you please inform me as to the regulation number of such documents. Thank you.

Very truly yours,

Ack 4119166

DFC: No

REC 20 62.83994-414.5

APR 13 1966

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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.