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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.

  • p. 53 …determine the nature of unidentified flying objects and related phenomena. Thanking you in advance, Aerial Phenomena…
  • p. 95 …professional scientific organizations such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which have considered…

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" Flying Saucers

Metallicum Non-Sobverdus

LA HABRA, CA

THURSDAY, OCTOBER

LA HABRA 9

DEAR SIR.

I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF THE UFO SIGHTINGS IN THE SKY ARE TRUE OR FALSE. THERE HAVE BEEN NUMEROUS SIGHTINGS RIGHT HERE IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. WHAT KIND OF BEINGS OR PEOPLE FLY THESE FAST MOVING MACHINES? I THAT THESE SIGHTINGS ACROSS UNITED STATES FROM THE ATLANTIC COAST TO THE PACIFIC COAST IN THE GULF OF MEXICO SHOULD BE REPORTED TO PRESIDENT NIJAY BE HE KNOWS WHY THEY ARE SCARING CERTAIN PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY. THE F. B.I. SHOULD ON THE LOOKOUT FOR MORE OF THE SIGHTINGS RIGHT AROUND WASHINGTON, D.C. PLEASE E-117 ET REG.26 YOUR ANSWER THANK YOU.

OCT 30 197 YOURS SINCE

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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. 141 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.