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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 15

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 77 pages · text by GLM-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. 9 …the UFO investigation committee in Colorado - (the new University of Colorado UFO investigation study. - R.C…
  • p. 16 …Representative of Colorado University, UFO research project. USA. B. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHERS. Knut Hammarskjöld general director of…
  • p. 25 …一☆一 ## Convincing UFO pictures SANTA ANA. - A University of Colorado professor conducting a study of…
  • p. 26 …But since then the Air Force has commissioned an independent study by the University of Colorado…
  • p. 42 …CONDON, PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, SAID HE WOULD WRITE TO THE MAN…
  • p. 51 …University of Colorado and Physics Professor EDWARD U. CONDON to conduct an in-depth study of…
  • p. 55 …had commissioned the University of Colorado to conduct an "in-depth" study of flying saucers for…
  • p. 72 …Salisbury, a professor of plant physiology at Colorado State University. At the risk of being unpopular…

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Atlanta, Georgia 30310

## Dear

Your letter of October 9th has been received.

With respect to your inquiry, matters pertaining to sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects or Flying Saucers 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.

OCT171966

COMM-FBI

Sincerely yours, J. Edgar Hoover

NOTE: We have had one outgoing to correspondent dated 3/10/66 in response to his letter regarding the TV program, "The FBI." A copy of his letter is being sent by form to the Department of the Air Force.

MAIL ROOM TT.LETYPE UNIT

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FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 77 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.