Documents / Official release
This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section (62-HQ-83894, Section 10) holds UFO-related correspondence from 1966 to 1977. In a 1966 letter, Florence C. Dow of Goffstown, New Hampshire asked whether subscribing to the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America journal might link her to communists. J. Edgar Hoover replied that the Bureau does not evaluate organizations, and a copy of the journal is enclosed. Other items include a 1977 Air Force fact sheet on the end of Project Blue Book and a White House inquiry answered by the FBI, which said it had no jurisdiction over UFO sightings.
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.
OPTION'AL FORM NO. 10
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• UNITED STATES GO. NMENT
Memoranaum
TO DIRECTOR, FBI 10/19/66DATE:
SAC, SAN FRANCISCO (62- 292i
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SUBJECT: UNIDENTI FI ED FLYING{oBJECTS
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J 1 - Re Bureau Bul l etins No . 57 dated 10/1/47, and No .
38 dated 3/25/49, entitled 11
FLYING DISCS . 11
Encl osed a.re copi es of an articl e entitl ed "Armed
Forces - Focus on UFO" , which was published in the Thi s World
suppl ement of t he San Francisco Exami ner & Chronicl~unday,
October 16, 1966.
This articl e deal s with the current controversy over
the existence or nonexistence of flying saucers or Unidentified
Flying Objects (UFOs), and quotes Michigan ' s Congressional
Representative GERALD FORD as suggesting t hat ConGress l ook
into UFOs ; a l so it announces that the Air Force, w11ich is
charged with investigating UFOs, has c ommissio~~ ;e Univer-
sity of Col o¾adQ and Phys ics Professor EDWARD . DON to
conduct an in- depth study of f iyi ng s-,f cersfor e "11ex t 18
months , at an estimated cost of $300 , 00.
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The articl e also points out that since f ast summer
pressure has been mounting for the establishment of an inde
pendent, civilian controlled investigative agency to l ook i nto
the UFO problem. j
Al so, for the Bureau ' s information, there was re- \ J
cently published (first printing June 1966) a book entitled ,(;;
"Flying Saucers - Serious Business" , Lyle Stuart, Inc . ,
publishers , authored by Frank Edwards . This book is now in
its third editi on and is availabl e in paperback, published
by Blntam Books, and i t i s probably a contributing factor to
the current controversy ~
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In t his book author Edwards points out that flying
saucers were observed i n the spring of 1946, in Scandinavia
and Russia (which he points out is about a year f rom the date
\ ~of the testing of the Alamog~ atomic bomb ) , and the book
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~!\,.~.~- Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 184 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.