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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. 5 …An American lady, Mrs. Madeleine Rodeffer, and two Germanborn, naturalised Americans, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Steckling…
  • p. 17 …Aimé Michel French mathematician, scientific researcher, noted writer. M. EAST, EUROPE. Hans C. Petersen Danish Air…
  • p. 18 …mysterious that their interpretation and use for scientific research require the utmost care. To obtain further…
  • p. 23 …In the 1950s the Soviet press scoffed at American reports of flying saucers as just so…
  • p. 55 …would make the American people "feel better." ## Study in Depth Whether or not that was so…
  • p. 72 …Allen Nyuk of Northwestern University, scientific consultant to the U.S. Air Force said phenomena seen…
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!"

Not linked to a story 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.