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This Internet Archive upload by Paul Galante reproduces the FBI's 2017 FOIA release to John Greenewald Jr. of The Black Vault about George Adamski. The release contains 281 previously processed pages. It includes 1954 Detroit field office memoranda on the Flying Saucer Club of Detroit, on informants who worried that its anti-hydrogen-bomb messages were political propaganda, and on a July 1954 meeting presided over by Adamski. Later items cover Joseph Perry's 1960 Grand Blanc saucer photograph, which was passed to the Air Force, and a 1960 Detroit sighting report.
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FEDERA~BUREAU OF
~IIIENTJAL
INV,STIGATION (3-9-Sll) I
FORM No.1
nus CASE ORICJINATm AT DETROIT
Ra:PORT MADE AT
,DETROIT, MICHIGAN
DATE WHEN
MADE .
2/11/55
DETROIT FLYING SAUCER CLUB
SYNOPSIS OF FACTS:
P~f-IOD FOR WHICH MADE.
1;6,10,11,17 '
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REPORT MADE BY
RICHARD B. SMITH plr
CHARACTER OF CASE
ESPIONAGE - X
Club formed in summer of 1954, and has since report~1 sightings of
saucers by its members. Purpose and activities of - ~Lub set out. One
club director claims they will cooperate with anyone on flying
saucer information and two of them ~y go to Washing~on, D.. c. to
;furnish ttr· Air Force information on saucers as WAll as to obtain
information. No indication this club has any su~versive co~Qtions.
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The purpose ·of this report Ri@Rl&Y.se:t.--£-ol?-t~£lia_{lir.ormation
: ·:available· on the Detroit Flying Saucer Club and its activitieso No
~ctive investigation of this club has been conducted by the FBI and
the. ~nformation was voluntarily furnished by those submitting it.
. On May 18, 1954, through MJ:. .. HAROLD TYLER, Assistant City
Editor, Detroit Free Press, a Detroit daily newspaper, Mrs. JEAN
PEARSON, Aviation writer, .Detroit Free Press, advised she had been
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attending meeting~ concerning flying saucers, rockets to the moon, "'·--=-·
etc., which she felt could be subversive.
Mrs .. PEARSON and Mr. BUD GOODMAN, Detroit Free Press
· Editorial Writer, advised on May 18~
talked in Detroit on . flying saucers. 1954, that one GEORGE ADAMSKI had
T~ey we~e alarmed ·at __~e nature .
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APPROVED AND
FORWARDEI;la sPECIAl. AGENt
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COPIES OF '!lfiS RI!PORT .';) 8 arcn 60. ~-·--
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.PROPERTY OF FBI--This report is loa·ned to you by the FBI., and neither it nor its contents are td· be
distributed outs ide. the agency to which loaned. \ · i Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 286 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.