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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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DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
•.WASHINGTON
THE tNSPECTOR GENERAL USAF
20 DISTRICT OFFICE OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS
67 BROAD STREET
NEW YORK 4, NEW YORK
IN REPLY
REFER T0:24-.300
Mr. S. I. McKee
Special Agent-in-Charge
Federal :eureau ot Investigation
18 , R~a:vmoncl-0:>uierc,e Bldg. ,
Newark 2, Hew Jersq
REt
, H.J.
IIQtrmY
Dear Kr. McKee,
Transitted herewith are copies of a restricted memorani'aa data4
12 .luguat 1952, ad.dressed to the .Sth OSI District by' the Chief, T•chJd.cal
Atl&l.7eis Di'rleion, .lir Technical Intelligence Center, Wrl.ght-Patteraen
lir :rorce Base, Ohio; a letter, with incloaure., dated 2 .&.ugu.at l
addressed to A.TIC, W'right Patterson Jll'B, ~n, Ohio, ·b7 Mr. CHARIBS
GREGG, St&tt w.riter, "The Berald-llevs, Passaic, B. J.•; a.rd. S8TO
photographs allegedly ot wti.dentified aerial objecte. The J.:ti- Technical
Intelligence center has requested that the background o~ abject ciT.l.llaa
photographer, JOHN H. RILBY, 28, 571 Main Street., P&terson, •• J. and of
known vitneaa GIORGI J. STOCK, 221 Brooks Ave., Passaic, If. J., be in
Teatigated in an attempt to determine their reliabilii:ty; that the pho
tographer be questioned. u to the cirCU111stances under lihich he took the
pictures; that an atteapt be ll&de to locate other sources in the areaJ
and that an:r,other data pertinent to determining the authenticity- ot the
photos be obtained.
This office will apprecia't·'iN~~ceiving copies or your reports o:t
investigation or this ma-ttaii,::--·,
eerely' yours,
10 Incle,
A.a 1ndicated abo
CCI. Hq OSI
L. 111 COY
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