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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.

  • p. 34 …In view of the information set forth in referenced Seattle letter, no further investigation or action…
  • p. 35 …May 5, 1959 SAC, Seattle (62-1729) AERIAL PHENOMENA RESEARCH GROUP MISCELLANEOUS Re Birmingham letter 4…
  • p. 36 …The Seattle Office is requested to ascertain who lives at 5108 Findlay Street, Seattle, Washington, and…
  • p. 50 …on UFO and that his publisher is Seattle, Washington. advised that the above letter had also…
  • p. 52 …calling itself Aerial Phenomena Research Group, in Seattle, Washington. I am wondering if this is a…
  • p. 59 …begun by Aerial Phenomena Research Group in Seattle, Washington on January 1, 1954 into the field…
Major Donald E. Keyhoe

flying objects prove to be extraterrestrial, is not a function of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This Bureau is, of course, interested in any aspect of any development which would affect the internal security of the United States.

Your letter of September 22, 1958, requested an interview with an official of this Bureau concerning the matter of unidentified flying objects and this Bureau's policy in connection therewith. Since this Bureau's policy in connection with unidentified flying objects has been fully set forth above, you may feel that the requested interview is not now necessary.

Sincerely yours,

John Edgar Hoover Director

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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.