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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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John Edgar Hoover United States Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington 25, D.C. Dear Mr. Hoover: Sce 14.7-219.62 December 7, 1963, I observed in the sky at Moorestown, New Jersey, an unusual object and its unusual behavior. On December 8, 1963, just 24 hours later at Elkton, Maryland, the Pan American Aircraft with 73 passengers and a crew of eight perished when this aircraft exploded in mid air and crashed. I sent a tape recording of the observation I had made on December 7, to Mr. J. Edgar Hoover and associated this object with the crash of this plane. Mr. Hoover informed me that the Civil Aeronautics Board was investigating this disaster and what I had sent to him would be forwarded to them, the C.A.B. In the month of March, 1965, the C.A.B., released a report that this accident and cause was due to a lightning strike. I protested to Senator Case of New Jersey. Senator Case mailed me the official report by the C.A.B., along with a letter by a Mr. Director Community and Congressional Relations. Upon reading the Official C.A.B. report on this accident and also this letter I have come to the conclusion that neither the C.A.B. or the writer of this letter know what they are talking about and have missed the point completely. I claimed that the object which I seen was laying air mines and that this aircraft was destroyed by contact with one of these mines. To substantiate my claim I would refer you to page 8 line 20 to line 24 inclusive of this report File #1-0015. Boeing 707-121 N709PA Pan American World Airways, Inc., near Elkton, Maryland, December 8,
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.