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.
“Stringfield”15 pages
# 96.094 60-83894-440 --this Bureau with regard to that incident. Correspondent was not advised that a copy of his communication was sent to the Department of the Air Force since he indicates he has special authorization to review Air Force files. We do not know whether or not this is true and it is believed a copy should be sent to the Air Force in order that they will be placed on notice that this correspondent is making this statement to obtain information from other agencies. Referral made by form. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Your letter of July 5th has been received. It has been the FBT's long-standing policy not to conduct investigations regarding information this Bureau receives about unidentified flying objects since such matters are not within our jurisdiction. All such data is immediately sent to the Department of the Air Force for its consideration. MAILED 19 JUL 13 1964 COMM-FBI Sincerely yours, 3. Edgar Hoover John Edgar Hoover Director Pit . NOTE: Bufiles contain nothing derogatory concerning and we have had one prior communication from him in which he requested an article by the Director for inclusion in a publication he was inaugurating in connection with his organization. His request was refused. Bufiles reflect that an individual who claimed to have sighted an unknown flying object was interviewed by a representative of this Bureau in the company of a United States Air Force officer. The individual interviewed was a police officer of the MAIL ROOM TELETYPE MUT
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.