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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.

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“Scientific American”6 pages

  • 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…
## Dear

I have received your letter of December 20th.

Although I would like to be of assistance, matters pertaining to Unidentified Flying Objects are not within the jurisdiction of the FBI.

Inasmuch as your communication is of interest to another governmental agency, I am referring a copy of it to the Director of Special Investigations, The Inspector General, Department of the Air Force, Washington, D. C. 20333.

Sincerely yours,

## II. Edgar Hoover

NOTE: Bufiles contain no record of correspondent. A copy of her letter was sent to the Department of the Air Force by form referral this date.

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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.