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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.
' DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE, WASHINc.TON Ol'P'ICE OF THE Sa:RETAJff 20 February 3 ........... Dear Mr. Hoover: It has been some length of time since I've written you on a subject o'f' mutual interest---Unidentified Flying Objects. When I last contacted you, I we.a then Department of Defense spokesman for Project Blue Book, the 6rganization responsible tor investigation \. of UFO s10htings, a part ot our Foreign TechnoloSY Division located • at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. I turned over my respon sibilities a.a spokesnan to Ma.Jor Carl Bart of our Division a year ego last month, 'When I was moved up to Deputy Chief' of the Op~ra- .tions Branch, Public Information DiVision. • '\\ ' ,, \\ I thought the Bureau mign copy of a letter whiob was prin: News" ( now in 1ts te pri qtJ&rterly by Res Mr. J. Edgar Hoover Director Federal Bureau of Investigation 9th & Pennsylvania Ave., R. w. 'Washington,:_ :Q. C• .. re ~ ·Inc1-· -; \ . .! .1: .,, } \ ' \o• • 4 y' ; ;~ .., "Saucer Keva" '-, be interested in the inclosed "b in the Marc11 l 3 issue of n lica • This Publi lestia of- .. of non-b,l1evers, believers~ "f'lyins saucer" subject. • Major, USAF Deputy Chief, Operations Br&Qell Public Information Division Ottice ot Intonation I *" : 1, ,. """ tJ ~ * ., -----..!,,• ,,,_ .,,.,,,. .,_, ..,,..,.... ·--'"· ' .
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.