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.
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1'Je1noran• m ITO DIRECTOR, FBI DATE: 7/25/67
SAC, NEWARK (47- 0)FRO>! {~t:i
SUBJECT: ~ UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL OB,JECTS
IVAN SANDERSON, COMPLAINANT
ALLEGED IMPERSONATION OF FBI AGENTS
.,.- AND MILITARY PERSONNEL
O IMPERSONATION
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Enclosed herewith for the Bureau ar~hapters
13 and 14 of a book now being prepared b~ IVAN 1 ANDERSON.
The bo_gk relates tO)lJJnidentified Aerial Objects UAO) which
SANDERSON states will'soon be published in magazine form on
a nation- wide basis. / V .1 ~ _L\ -1 .
SANDERSON, who claims to have written several books,
is a graduate of Oxford in England and bas various degrees.
He states that he has appeared on the Gary Moore Show and
oth0r types of television projects. He relates that he has
been extremely concerned about UAOs and in the submitted 71materia l be eludes briefly to the FBI and the CIA.
There does not appear to be a violation of the
I npersonation Statute or any other violation over which this 0Bureau now has jurisdiction. The enclosed information is
submitted only for the Bureau's interest and no further t'j \
action is contempla~~iy Newark. • ~
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JOIO-tOI Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 184 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.