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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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# UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Detroit, Michigan March 9, 1960 Re: Unidentified Flying Object; Joseph Perry, Grand Blanc, Michigan - Complainant Mr. Joseph Perry, 3079 Edwards Street, Grand Blanc, Michigan, was contacted at his request by Agents of this office on March 5, 1960. Mr. Perry advised that he operates a Pizza House at 3075 Edwards Street, Grand Blanc, and that he has been a professional photographer for thirty years. He explained that he has a hobby of taking photographs of the moon through a home-made telescope. At about 1:00 a.m. on February 21, 1960, he took some photographs of the moon and after developing same, he put them in his viewer and in one photograph he observed what appears to be a flying object somewhere between the end of his telescope and the surface of the moon. He said that when blown up, this object is flat on the bottom, is oval shaped, and appears to have a fluorescent glow around the entire object, and that it is apparently moving as it has a vapor trail running behind it. He has taken over one thousand pictures of the moon and has never seen anything resembling this object. Perry said that due to his thirty years' experience in photography, he is sure that what appears on the picture is actually a flying object, and is not a malfunction of the camera, is not a blur on his telescope, and is not anything that appears on the photo because of the manner in which he developed the film. Perry took about twenty pictures of the moon on February 21, 1960, and after developing them, he observed that most of the pictures were under-exposed, so he just cut off the two that appeared to be properly exposed and destroyed the rest. He furnished both of these pictures to the FBI.
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