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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. 3 …in the United Nations, in the Vatican, in scientific circles, and to Press, radio and TV…
  • p. 12 …the press was furious. The reporters could not get any information from me so they fabricated…
  • p. 15 …The Intercontinental UFO Observer and Analytic Network, representing the globally united scientific UFO research analysts /Press…
  • p. 16 …The Press Release for which, dated January 11, 1967, was usually silenced as . . . "not in the…
  • p. 23 …In the 1950s the Soviet press scoffed at American reports of flying saucers as just so…
  • p. 31 …Of Men and Galaxies (University of Washington Press), says ## The Space Brothers Keep Their Word. As…
  • p. 66 …MICHAEL "X" BARTON; Futura Press; 5949 Gregory Ave.; Hollywood, Calif. 90038. Phone: 464-0441. 5. WESLEY…
  • p. 72 …Knut Hammarkjold, whose late uncle was secretary general of the United Nations, spoke is a convention…
On October 21, 1966, captioned individual telephonically contacted the Bureau and spoke with SA of the Crime Research Section.

He advised that he is a free-lance writer and is working on a story for a TV production concerning unidentified flying objects. He stated that he has been in personal contact with a former Air Force officer who uses the alias of concerning unidentified flying objects and that it is the TV producer's intention to use this individual in the forthcoming TV show. He advised that is not the individual's true name and inquired as to whether the FBI could advise him of real identity.

was advised that the FBI could not be of any assistance to him and that all information in FBI files is confidential. He was also advised that the investigation of unidentified flying objects is not, and never has been, a matter within the investigative jurisdiction of the FBL.

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Bufiles contain no information which can be identified

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REC 53

For record purposes. LX-104

1 - Mr. DeLoach

1 - Mr. Wick

1-62-83894 (Unidentified flying objects)

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77 OCT311966

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.