Documents / Official release
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.
• UNITED. ATES GOVERNMENT TO : SAC (100-36998) DATB: 2/27/60 F'llOM : Clerk William P. Nugent sUBJBCr: UFO SIGHTED ON 2/27 0 by S.M. KAPLAN OVER BLOOMFIELD, B • J. The writer received a telephonic contact trom MR. S. M. . PLAN, 19 Al:fred Lane, Bloomfield, I.J.1...., at 6:35 PM his date. He advised a group or aeighbQrs and himsel had seen an UFO and reported the details concerning • 'l'h.e writer telephonically contacted OSI agent La Belle, the duty man tor this date, and advised him o.f the incident. He stated that he did not want the details as he would get them .first hand .from Kaplan,. thanked the writer, and terminated the convers•t1on.
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 66 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.