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This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section, part of file 62-HQ-83894, gathers flying saucer correspondence and memoranda mostly from 1952, with some from 1954. It includes a Savannah River Plant sighting teletype, Hoover replies that send public letters on to the Air Force, a San Diego report on Borderland Sciences, and a laboratory exam of the scoutmaster Desvergers' cap that found no residue. It also covers instructions to refer disc reports to OSI and a 1954 Cincinnati matter involving Truman Bethurum.
From the source:Release of 2026-05-08 Incident: N/A, N/A. The FBI's 62-HQ-83894 case file includes investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports concerning Unidentified Flying Objects and flying discs documented between June 1947 and July 1968. The records include high-profile incident accounts, photographic evidence from sites like Oak Ridge, TN, and technical proposals regarding potential propulsion systems. Additional topics include convention programs, researcher accounts, and extensive media coverage from the period. This file is partially posted on FBI vault with more redactions and some pages missing. Included here is the complete case file with several newly declassified pages and only minor redactions.
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IJOHNSON COUNTY
•DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL DEFENSE
M □ NR □ E AN D JACKSON STREETS
FRANKLIN, INDIANA
ROBERT D. WOLF
Director 20 January 1953
Mr. J. Edgar Hoover
Director Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington, D. C.
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Dear Sir:
I would first like to apologize for writing to you direct, however, I have
cleared this morning with our State Director and he suggests this procedure.
fie have been having some success with our Ground Observation Cor ps as vre have
four ( 4) posts here in the coun~ f. , r , r ,/
Last Fall I was contacted by on~ of our local business men wanting to know if
I would be ir.terested in joining ~nternational Flying Saucer Bureau. I told him
that I would ~nd did join with the idea fully in mind of having the local peopl e who
are interested in Flying Saucers also work in our Civil Defense Program. We are
only too willing to co-oper&te i n any way we can with Civil Defense. The city of
Franklin is approximately twenty (20) miles southwest of Indianapolis. on the dual
lane highway US :{f:31.
I ~ enclosing a letter which was received last October, as well as the current
• issue o~ACE REVIEW. Would like to know if this organization has been cleared or
is subversi ve in any way.f- ----.I would appreciate your expediting this information back to us so that we will
know what steps to take in further enlisting interested persons in our program.
If you do not r equir e the enclosures please return them.
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a,J, ff. , JNDEXt0-84\ Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 205 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.