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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.
“Office of Special Investigations”16 pages
# AF WANTS TO KNOW # Pizza Pie-Or Flying Saucer? GRAND BLANC, March 9 The FBI today probed into a color photograph of the moon taken by Joe Perry, a talented pizza pie maker, who also takes potshots at the sky with a home-made telescope-camera. The FBI is interested in the picture Joe snapped last month on the second night of the full moon. The picture shows a saucer-like object silhouetted against the moon. The "thing" radiates a trail in green and appears nearer to the earth than the moon," Joe said. "It is round, much smaller than the moon, and it has a dome." JOE DID not think anything of the photograph until customers in his restaurant asked to see it again and again. "It's a flying saucer," they said. The FBI got wind of it last Friday and the next day two agents from the Flint office visited Joe's place here. "I showed them several slides of photographs I took on that particular night," Joe said. "They did not seem to be interested until I showed this particular one and then both of them jumped up." The agents took the photograph and several others. JOE, A grandfather at 44, hopes he has been of some service to government experts in their search for answers in outer space. "But I hope I get that picture back," he said. headed Houston well exp
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