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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 15

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 77 pages · text by OCR

This part of an FBI file holds a July 1967 letter sent to Director J. Edgar Hoover by a reporter for UFO Contact, the journal of the International Get Acquainted Program (IGAP), along with a copy of the magazine, dedicated to George Adamski. The magazine includes an editorial praising Adamski, an open letter to Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, and Ronald Caswell's account of contactee Fred Steckling's European lecture tour and his film of a UFO formation. The file also contains AFSCA newsletter items and an advertisement for AFSCA's 1966 Reno convention.

  • p. 65 …Wes Baterman DR, GEORGE KING “The Nine Freedoms” Ch: Wayne Aho SIDNEY PADRICK “Flying Saucer Land…
  • p. 66 …GEORGE KING; The Aetherius Society; 6202 Afton Place; Hollywood, Calif. 90028. Publish: "The Aetherius Society Newsletter…
  • p. 74 …The people called him 'King and King,' and he was king in the land of the…
  • p. 75 …GEORGE KING, founder of the Aetherius Society, was host at the official opening of the Society…
  • p. 77 …George King, Hanno Mayberry, Howard Menger, Laura Mundo, Mel Noel, Sidney Pa Chief Standing Horse, Dr…
These still photographs are taken from the screen projection of the 8 mm colour film of September 7th 1964. Taken with a REVERE 8 mm cine-camera, automatic 20 mm powerzoom lens, by Fred Stockling of Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.A.

The 23 feet of colour film was exposed from a speeding train travelling from Mannheim to Frankfurt in West Germany.

This serial "armada" of UFO's is shown in impressive formation in the cloudless sky.

Shown to photographic experts of NASA.

Of the film, Pentagon UFO spokesman said: "This is the best film I've seen yet!"

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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. 77 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.