Newark Field Office, 1952-1967

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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TO : SAC, NEWARK ( 62- ) DATE:7/11/66
FROM : SA JOHN J. CREAMER, JR.
SUBJECT: UIIIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS
Westl:i)ra;nge. N.J., 7/11/66. OAT
At 10:18pm, 7/11/66, UCH l Old Short Hille Rd.,
West Orange, NJ., telephone , advised that she and. her
girl friend saw three white in the sky a,t about 10:00PM.
Two planes ca.me towards the ob ote from two opposite directions
•• it they were chasing them. the planes drew near them, the
objects disappeared.
RAUCH 1S friend is SUS SHAW, 18 Maplewood Dr., Livingston,
N.J.
Officer Murphy, w. ange N.J. P.D. was contacted and h• advised
that there has been no re of unidentified objects in the are~.
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