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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…
Perry advised he took the pictures with a 35 mm Retna German Camera using Super Ansco Color Film, and he took these pictures through his home-made telescope which can go to 2,840 power. He estimates that at the time he took the picture showing the flying object, that his scope was set at between 350-400 power.
This confirms information furnished to Special 25th OSI District, who also was advised that the information was being furnished for any action he deemed appropriate and no further action was contemplated by the Detroit Office of the FBI.
This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of any kind. It is the property of the FBI, and is a loan to your agency; it and/or its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.
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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.