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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 14

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 141 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This FBI file release, Part 14 of the Bureau's UFO file, collects correspondence and memoranda from 1960 to 1968. Much of it concerns Joseph Perry of Grand Blanc, Michigan, whose moon photograph appeared to show a saucer-like object. The FBI passed the slides to Air Force OSI at Selfridge AFB and said repeatedly that it was not investigating. The file also covers a Denver lecture about space people, an anonymous Dallas informant, a NICAP subcommittee, and form replies stating that UFOs fall outside FBI jurisdiction.

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April 21, 1960 1.

Mr. Joseph F. Perry 3079 Edward Street Grand Blanc, Michigan

Dear Mr. Perry:

I am in receipt of your letter dated April 13, 1960, and I wanted you to know that I have taken the liberty of furnishing the Department of the Air Force with a copy of your letter so that agency could reply to you concerning the return of the photographs you furnished to Special Agents of this Bureau. As you have been previously advised, these photographs when received from you were immediately furnished to the Office of Special Investigations, Department of the Air Force, Selfridge Air Force Base, Mount Clemens, Michigan.

It is suggested that you direct further inquiries in this matter to the Department of the Air Force.

Sincerely yours,

APR211960

COMM-FBI

John Edgar Hoover Director

1 - Detroit (Enclosure - copy letter dated 4-13-6

1 - Office of Special Investigations Air Force (By separate letter) JFW:tp Attn: Chief, Counterintelligence Division (5)

NOTE: Perry, proprietor of a restaurant in Grand Blanco and an amateur photographer with a hobby of taking pictures of the moon, on 3-5-60 advised Detroit Office that two of his pictures showed a foreign object which he believed to

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