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This Federal Bureau of Investigation Newark Field Office file covers 1952 to 1967 and mostly holds memos recording phone calls from New Jersey residents about unidentified flying objects. Agents usually passed these reports to the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. It also includes a 1952 OSI request to look into the backgrounds of photographer John H. Riley and witness George J. Stock of Passaic, a 1963 Air Force letter to Hoover enclosing a Saucer News item, NICAP correspondence, and newspaper clippings about flying saucer clubs.
From the source:Release of 2026-06-12 Incident: August 1952-1967, New Jersey, United States. This file details a special inquiry by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Newark Field Office of various reported sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in and near New Jersey between August 1952 and January 1967. These files include memoranda and correspondence between the FBI and the U.S. Air Force regarding UFO sightings, as well as public correspondence concerning various UFO-focused groups.
- The writer telephonioally contacted SA John Murphy, who ia in charge ot 11UJon with other go-vernm.ent agencies in the Newark office,at 1:10 AM. The writer viahed to know whether h• should 1mmediatfly conatact OSI or it SA Murphy ahould do ao. SA Murphy tqld the nt1Jer that the procedure aa he underatooad1t was to aend a letter to the interested agency and not make an immediate ooal*" 1th the agency at night. SA. Murphy did suggest that the writer 1 rm the Sunday morning duty agent of the contents or thia meao and leave it to hia dlac9etion aa to whether OSI ahould be co cted at that time. M'rra. A.G.DDower telephonically contacted the Newark ottice at 1:35 AM on this date. She informed the writer that ah• and her husband had seen a UFO that had paaaed over her reaidenc• in a South to North d1reot18nJ that it had laated tor only two or three aeoondaJ that to her it appeared to be a white hot point ot l.lght. with a tail or predomiantly orange coloringJ that this tail waa at least ten time ■ aa large aa the objeotJ that the tail waa fan ahapedJ that it was a& an altitude of greater than 3,000 feet; that it was unli~e a talling atarJ and that when they tirat aav the object t• appeared to th•m thaJ it had burst into flam.••• Mra. Dower advised \hat she resides at 8 arYard Terrace, Weat Orange, N.J. -----·~•"'"""~~'·"·~..~ RA -t t,l
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