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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Serial 449

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 18 pages · text from the file's own layer

This is an FBI file serial containing an October 3, 1966 memo from the Los Angeles SAC to the Director. It reports that the Philadelphia Division forwarded Issue No. 24 (July 1966) of Flying Saucers International, the journal of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America. A subscriber believed an article in it followed the Communist Party line. That article was a message said to come from Korendor via Bob Renaud's radio. Los Angeles had no record of Renaud and planned no further action. Attached newspaper clippings cover sightings including the Wanaque Reservoir UFOs and an 1896 Oakland airship.

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.

  • p. 9 …GEORGE KING, founder of the Aetherius Society, was host at the official opening of the Society…
  • p. 17 …The UFO Project research ha)I been operative continuously tor mor-e t han 20 yeprs…
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Believers Convene- -Ml~NEAPOLIS TRIBUNEJ
New York Tl.mu Senolce "They accept spacecri1t as a
LOS ANGEL~S. Calif. fact of life. Their interest is
The "urgent problem" ; in contacting spacemen ~i-
improving communications rectly or through telepathy.
with the thousands of visitors Green, who regularly runs
from o uter space who sup- for president as a "space age
posedly are circling the earth candidate," says he cannot
was afforded solemn delib· practice telepathy but insists
eration here this weekend at he has met spacemen on at
a special convention of fly- least six occasions. The last
ing saucer buffs. of hls visitors, he said, was
four feet tall and came from
Among the nearly 300 dele the Alpha Centauri so I a r
gates was a self-professed system.
''interplanetary l rave I er "
11amed Standing Horse, an A muscular, even-featured
Englishwoman who regularly young man named. Wesley
Issues mimeographed reports Bateman said he never had
on her conversations w i th met spacemen but that he
space travelers, a man who was in ..constant communica·
offered to book "g r o u p tion with them through tele
sightings" of flying saucers pathy" and offered a. pro
and a presidential candidate gram of instruction to other
campaigning on the flying delegates who sought similar
saucer ticket. contacts. His blonde wife,
Jonell, attired in black Leo-
TIIE SPACE buffs1 who tards, was kept busy signing
assembled in a cavernous es• up ustudents."
tablishment called the Blar
ney Castle, weren't much im
pressed with Thursday's So
viet moon landing, but they
were awed and confused by
what they reported to be a
sharp increase in flying
sauce7 .
onj delegate, Marianne
Francis. warned that the
si,,-htings could mark the be
glaning of some "ominous
cll'anges" tor the earth's pop
ulation. But the convention
c ha i rm a n, Dr. Fr a n k
Stranges, said the 0 interplan•
etary visitors'' would tum
out to be "angelic creatures
whose mission is to h e I p
mankind."
The delegates were gen
erally well groomed, articu
late men and women w h o
could have blended into any
PTA meeting. Many were
heads of organizations whose
members spotted and photo
graphed "unidentified flying
objects'' and claimed to main
tain telepathic communica
tion with space travelers.
NEARLy ALL agreed that
What they called the ''flying
saucer movement" was un-
dergoing sharp expans ion.
Two delegates announced
they were negotiating to pur•
chase ~adio _stations_ to help
transm1~ their theones. ~ev-
eral flying saucer magazines
and hundreds of books were
on sale at the convention.
"These people are contac
tee-oriented," explained Gab
riel Green, a serious young
man who served as president
of the Amalgamated Flying
Saucer Clubs of America. I We don't need l<> search for
Flying Object
Sighted In Illinois
NORMAL, Dl.-ruPD-Sev
er;,I persons living on the
•ame block here said they
saw an unidentified flying
object last night.
The object had four blink
Ing lights, red, white, blue
and green, proceeded north
easterly, hovered over a
grove of trees, then returned
southwesterly. The object
was seen first by the Merle
Simpson family, then others.
They sald it was flat and
s mall.
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"There is no mystery as to
whether the space men are
watching us - some have al
ready infiltrated our society,''
said Bateman. "The mystery
is why so many are coming.
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Flying Saucer!Ji 2 3 6 6
(To the Editor, S.C.M. Posl)_
Sir,-Citizens beware! This Is
not a drill! It you report what
you see, your report will be
treated as hallucination. Ypur
honest desire to help solve an
aeronautical ll"iystery w ill ba
discounted by ba.rassing con
fronta tion by paid investigators
who are instructed to suppre:;:.s
the a\Y.'hcnticity of their investi
gation.
The UFO Project research ha)I
been operative continuously tor
mor-e t han 20 yeprs. The scope
and extent of this project is a
carefully guarded subject. Dur
ing that time it has maintained
a continuous status oC ''Classified
Inrormatlon.'' The only informa
tion released by the U.S. Air
F orce for publication is· periodic
repcrts of a few selected ca:..es
of mistaken identity-such as
the report to this newspaper on
February I, by Dr Al.Ian !jynek:11In Search Of Fly ing Saucers."
Honest, sincere observers no
longer report UFO sightings to
accepted authority. (Why con
ti.nue to slap your own face!)
For scvcrn1 years ac~-ual slgbt
ings~ o! spaceships are compil.ed
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1 Saucer Clu-bs o1 America
(AFSCA) maintain a compre
hensive lnfonnation department
• that registers Club aclivi:'ies, aocl
reports from all over the world.
Anyone can write to AFSCA,
2004 N: HQOver Street, Los An
geles, California 90027, U.S.A.,
a nd receive a concise, consclen
tious report about any lnforma
I lion h'e. la seeking.
Flying Saucers- we only need
to acknowledle their presence.
Actually we are on one of the
strangest UFO's in the universe.
Our ...Friends" who are now in
vestigating us: cannot undel"$tand
o~r be.Uigerant altitude tow:ud
1beir conscientious effort to con-
tact u.s.
,Neither can- 1.
I UFO spotted S-16- 66
PASADENA (AP)--s-County police on the run of the r oad, so we Just bad to
Tuesday, their eartbly counter• give a couple of them sum-
parts caused more trouble Fri- monses. They •bad everytbing,
day nlgbt. cameras, bioOC'\ilars, t e Je-
Throngs ol tbe curious ringed scopes. I was waiting to sea ooe
normaU~ deserted Wanaque of them ·get out with a geiger
Reservotr In Ibis small hamlet counter." i.,-t-he_
•ftA ted h t Id ti
...,.. crea .w a o_ . me~s The sky watchers were out make a return appearance l"r!- "easier waya", he said.
say Is the first traffic Jam m In force after wide spread pub- Iday. '.!bro In ted
the history of tbe borough. Tbe Ucation of lbe sighting of uni- : Since the sightings, Tuesday, are .ttu8~:"~r:'';,1
cars pArked along Westbroof!: dentifled flying objects over the both Wanaque and thls borough the reservoir to catch a glimpse
Roa_d and Route 511. reservoir. The elusive thing In have been overpopulated wit.li r the brllliant pbanfom that has,
Ringwood Police L!euteoaot ___ television cameras , over
Lilly Hill In Stonetown and
Board Mountain near Sloatsburg
Road, acoording to Ch a r I es
Theodora.
Dean Noll, assistant engineer,
for NJDWSC does not believe
that the UF'P might have been a

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