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.
“Office of Special Investigations”12 pages
lly ref. 11-4 Re: Unidentified Flying Objects. Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington 25, D.C. Dear Sirs, FLYING SAUCER Would you be so kind as to advise me whether or not it is the usual procedure for agents of the FBI to investigate reports of unidentified flying objects which have been seen on the ground. In several recent cases, agents of the FBI have been present when USAF investigators from local AFBs in the vicinity of the landing site have carried out their investigations. Would you also advise me whether it would be possible to obtain copies of reports made by agents of their findings. One case which I do have a personal interest in was the La Madera April 26, 1964 case where a age 35, of La Madera and Santa Fe, New Mexico, reported to that he had observed an unidentified object approximately 500 feet from his home. The following day, Agent of the FBI and Major of Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque inspected the site. Can you advise me of Agent findings at the site? I realise that your department is probably more concerned with federal crime, however, I cannot understand why it has concerned itself with cases which are normally undertaken by the USAF as a matter of National Defence. This letter is not intended as a letter of criticism but more of a general inquiry. REG 131 62-83891-442 Trusting that this will receive your early attention. EX 109rs faithfully.
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.