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This Federal Bureau of Investigation file from the Chicago office holds UFO correspondence from 1967 and 1974. A 1967 memo records an eleven-year-old Chicago boy's report of a weird noise and a flash of light moving north, which was passed to an Air Force radar squadron. In 1974 researcher Larry W. Bryant asked for FBI records on an April 8, 1954 occupied UFO landing. Special Agent in Charge Richard G. Held replied that the FBI had no information and does not investigate UFO sightings.
From the source:Release of 2026-07-10 Incident: 10/10/74, Various. This file contains two pieces of correspondence. The first, dated 9/22/1967, relays a description of an incident provided by an eleven-year-old child in which they heard a “weird” noise and saw a “flash of light.” The second, dated 9/30/1974 and 10/10/1974, is an exchange of letters between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Mr. Larry Bryant regarding an “alleged April 8, 1954 sighting of an occupied unidentified flying object (UFO).” The FBI’s response to Mr. Bryant’s inquiry indicated that it maintained no record of such an event, and that, circa 1974, the Bureau does not collect information regarding UFO sightings.
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# Memorandum CHICAGO (840) SAC. LEONARD TREVIRANUS UFO SIGHTING - MISCELLANEOUS TOM MITCHELL, 7825 South Colfax, Chicago (375-9258) telephonically advised the writer at 9:10 PM on September 16, 1967, as follows: He is eleven years of age. At approximately 8:30 PM he heard a "weird" noise and looked out the window of his residence and saw a "flash of light going north in the sky." He could furnish no additional information but claimed this to be a UFO. The above information was furnished to Sergeant EUGENE RIPKA, Army-Air Force 755th Radar Squadron, Arlington, Heights, Illinois, telephone 763-8638. CLT/cah (1) cah 100-44501=1 SEARCHED...INDEXED. SERIALIZED...FILED...
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Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 5 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.