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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 14
Federal Bureau of Investigation · 141 pages · text by 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.
“Office of Special Investigations”16 pages
- p. 1 …Office of Special Investigations, Air Force, dated 4/21/60.
Enclosed herewith are 5 copies of…
- p. 4 …One copy of this memorandum has been made available to the Office of Special Investigations (OSI…
- p. 9 …Office of Special Investigations Air Force
Attention: Chief, Counterintelligence Division
From: John Edgar Hoover, Director
Subject…
- p. 10 …were immediately furnished to the Office of Special Investigations, Department of the Air Force, Selfridge Air…
- p. 11 …Special Agents of Detroit Office on 4-12-60 informed Perry that the photographs he had…
- p. 14 …been immediately furnished to the Office of Special Investigations, Department of the Air Force, Selfridge Air…
- p. 15 …John Edgar Hoover, Director
Office of Special Investigations Air Force
Subject: UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT JOSEPH PERRY…
- p. 16 Office of Special Investigations Air Force
that we do not gather evidence concerning unidentified flying objects…
- p. 17 Office of Special Investigations Air Force
furnished a copy of his letter to the President. Make…
- p. 27 …THIS MATERIAL WAS TURNED OVER TO TWENTYFIFTH OFFICE OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS AIR FORCE BASE OSI' DETACHMENT…
- p. 51 …of it, as well as copies of your enclosures, to the Director of Special Investigations, The…
- p. 54 …The suggestion should be made that he may wish to contact the Office of Special Investigations…
- p. 56 …that he should contact the Office of Special Investigations of the Air Force, San Francisco, California…
- p. 60 …This letter was furnished the Office of Special Investigations by the Ground Observer Corps (GOC) Coordinator…
- p. 63 …The other Government agency referred to in the memorandum is the Office of Special Investigations, Lowry…
- p. 115 …A copy of your communication is being forwarded to the Office of Special Investigations, Department of…
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Mount Holly, New Jersey
Dear Mr.
The object you saw was a bright meteor, sometimes called a "fireball" or a "bolide". Almost all very bright meteors are small bodies moving in orbits rather like the orbits of asteroids, and probably are fragments of asteroids. The direction of motion of your meteor is consistent with that sort of orbit. A good many bright meteors strike the earth each day, but most go unnoticed. We have received another report of the same meteor from Wilmington, Delaware.
I am sending your observation to the Moonwatch Division of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory here in Cambridge, which has a continuing program for analysis of visual observations of bright meteors. Since it is very rarely possible for the professional astronomer to observe these meteors, most of what is known about them depends on this sort of lucky chance.
Sincerely yours,
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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. 141 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.