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.
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Before you see this article in print, it will have been submitted to appropriate Defense Department authorities for security review and clearance. Why? Because, under U. S. Army regulations, its author is in duty bound to have its contents examined for adherence to accuracy, propriety, and security. And the process applies not just to this article, but to any others he might write on the military aspect of Unidentified Flying Objects. While employed as a Department of the Army civilian, I have been writing for the past six years unofficial critiques of the Federal Government's role in UFO research. I have confronted and withstood the obvious objections to my writing on such a controversial subject (e.g., "biting the hand that feeds you"), and I can only say to my detractors: "Someone must do it. Someone must challenge the UFO cannors, assuming they exist." Proof of their existence has been offered by at least two of my previously cleared manuscripts and by one that failed to hurdle the review-clearance obstacle. As to exactly how much longer I can speak out freely for what I believe without bringing
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.