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Newark Field Office, 1952-1967

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 1952 · 66 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

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FROM IC D. LOUIS BARRA
SUBJECT: UNIDENTIFIED G OBJECTS
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Complainant related that ahe haa other information
ahe·would like to furnish to a FBI agent, but was unable
to explain any further on the phone.
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and would :mot diacuas the information aha desired to furnish
the FBI, while she was on the phone.
The aboTe data 1a recorded tor information and
is &Qggeated that a agent contact complainant to determine
if ahe baa any 1:lorm.at1on or any value to the FBI.
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