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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 16

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 169 pages · text by OCR

This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section collects 1949 Army intelligence reports of unidentified aerial objects seen around Camp Hood, Texas, forwarded by the San Antonio office, which told the Director it was reviewing and destroying such reports unless they held FBI interest. It also has 1957 FBI liaison memoranda on a radar-tracked object near Montauk Point and Benton, Pennsylvania, judged unlikely to be a Soviet operation. The file also includes a civilian Flying Saucer Researchers release arguing that saucers probably come from Mars.

  • p. 13 …The Watch Committee was told that the Air Defense Command has not completed its investigation of…
  • p. 39 …Department of the Air Force, Headquarters, Air Force Office of Special Investigations advised that the attached…
  • p. 40 …On 2/6/49 PAUL RYAN, Office of Special Investigations, Roswell, New Mexico, advise the resident…
  • p. 41 …Paul Ryan, Office of Special Investigation, Roswell, New Mexico, that two men whom he interviewed at…
  • p. 91 …to the Department of the Air Force, Headquarters Air Force Office of Special Investments $ \mathrm{H…
  • p. 114 …86 162 - 1987 Date September 27,1961 Office of Special Investigations Air Force Attention: Chief, Counterintelligence…
  • p. 117 …Office of Special Investigations Air Force Attention Chief, Counterintelligence Division From: John Edgar Hgover, Director Subject…
  • p. 118 Office of Special Investigations Air Force ## NOTE CONTINUED: letter to the Bureau attesting to the anticommunist…
  • p. 136 …March 20, 1954 ## Tot Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force…
November 16,1961

Mr. Hoover has been called out of the city and asked me to acknowledge your letter to him, which was received on November 13, 1961.

Although Mr. Hoover would like to be of service, information in FBI files must be maintained as confidential through a regulation of the Department of Justice. In this connection, the FBI is strictly an investigative agency of the Federal Government and, as such, does not make evaluations nor draw conclusions concerning the character or integrity of any organization, publication or individual. Please do not infer either that we do or do not have data in our files relating to the subjects of your inquiries.

In light of the foregoing, you can be assured that this Bureau does not have a list of organizations of the type you discussed; however, there is enclosed a list of groups designated by the Department of Justice as coming within the purview of Executive Order 10450. The material you enclosed is being returned to you under separate cover.

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