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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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2904 South 13th Road - Apt 2 Arlington, Virginia 22204 September 30, 1974 Special Agent in Charge Federal Bureau of Investigation Chicago, Illinois ## Dear Sir: Through inquiry of the Department of the Air Force, I've obtained a copy of a U. S. Army report of an alleged April 8, 1954 sighting of an occupied Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) which was pursued by U. S. Coast Guard personnel, landed briefly on the ground (discharging the occupant, who strolled about and returned to the object), and which was seen by at least three civilian observers before it departed. The report's distribution notation cites your office as receiving a copy. So that I might complete my research into this case, will you please send me a copy of any documentation of all FBI follow-up actions that may have been taken on the matter? Also, does your office possess any other UFO-sighting case files covering the period January 1, 1954 through December 31, 1954; and, if so, will you please send me a copy of your records of same? Finally, will you please tell me the current mailing address and/or telephone number of the principal observer, Chicago resident Mrs. Lelah H. Stoker, in the aforementioned sighting of April 8, 1954?
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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.