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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. 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…
from the highway to our home which made six home driveways and three roads leading off of our road that we were traveling. At each place this outer flare would hover until they knew whether we were turning off or going on by, then they would swiftly glide on ahead of us they staid just above the tree and a little ahead of us showing they were very intelligent people because had they staid behind us we would have speeded up and panicked. When we came to our place they hesitated until we turned in then they turned in over our garden beside the drive away. My daughter got out on her side and I got out on my side of the car. They were only a short distance from us and down much lower. They were motionless and nooseless no motor at all. We stared at each other a long time, the thistle crossed my mind that they were probably taking our picture. I was completely speechless and sadd. I felt the enormity of this thing that was happening. They come from endless time endless distance I felt that it was out of eternity itself. After some time they moved first on across the field down towards the river. Silently we event into the house

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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.