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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 12

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 142 pages · text by OCR

This FBI file section contains a 20 January 1953 letter from the Johnson County, Indiana civil defense office asking J. Edgar Hoover whether the International Flying Saucer Bureau was subversive, with an enclosed issue of its bulletin Space Review. It also holds 1956 FBI memoranda and letters to Air Force investigators on a Van Nuys landing claim, a bright light seen from Oxford, Pennsylvania, and a low spinning object seen near Henderson, North Carolina. In each case the FBI took no action.

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“Works”21 pages

  • p. 1 …who are interested in Flying Saucers also work in our Civil Defense Program. We are only…
  • p. 2 …Has worked for many years for Anglo-American friendship and still corresponds with friends here in…
  • p. 5 …home and abroad, "carry on the good work, and above all, do not be disappointed, discouraged…
  • p. 7 …Daw, as he prefers to be called by club members, is doing great work for IFSB…
  • p. 13 …Through the great efforts and work of Mr. Louis Frahm, business man, Mr. Jack W. Moore…
  • p. 14 …to you about IFSB and your fine work in helping our organization grow larger and stronger…
  • p. 35 …The one tangible thing we had to work on was the fact that the sky is…
  • p. 36 …Astronomers went to work on the problem. Dr. Hynek considered the possibility that a brilliant, slow…
  • p. 37 …A technician who once worked on Project Saucer told me recently that chasing a weather balloon…
  • p. 39 …Wells thought up for his novel "The First Men in the Moon" would work; it wouldn…
  • p. 48 …Edgar Hoover , Federal Bureau of Investigation Work . H.C . Dear Mr Hoover ! - Since reading so much…
  • p. 57 …We have many scientists working in the atomic field and also in other fields, with almost…
  • p. 78 …typical V-weapon on which he had worked himself. I am sure that the truth is…
  • p. 88 …According to , during 1944, month not recalled, while enroute to work in a field a short…
  • p. 89 …stated he has not been in communication since 1945 with any of the work crew of…
  • p. 104 …This call was received by him in the early morning prior to his departure for work…
  • p. 105 …there is evidence for espionage against this work and later adds that the FBI so far…
  • p. 106 …We, the staff members of this expedition are factual witnesses to some of the work such…
  • p. 107 …Furthermore there is evidence for espionage against this work: Tapped radio, opened mail etc. Since to…
  • p. 116 …it was while on her way to work one morning that she had sighted the object…
  • p. 125 …a tea-party than of the man-work of science. It seems our own nomenclature, or…
# JOHNSON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL DEFENSE MONROE AND JACKSON STREETS FRANKLIN, INDIANA

20 January 1953

Mr. J. Edgar Hoover Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington, D. C.

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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.

We have been having some success with our Ground Observation Corps as we have four (4) posts here in the county.

Last Fall I was contacted by one of our local business men wanting to know if I would be interested in joining the International Flying Saucer Bureau. I told him that I would and did join with the idea fully in mind of having the local people who are interested in Flying Saucers also work in our Civil Defense Program. We are only too willing to co-operate in any way we can with Civil Defense. The city of Franklin is approximately twenty (20) miles southwest of Indianapolis, on the dual lane highway U S 431.

I am enclosing a letter which wns received.last October, as well as the current issue of STAGE REVIEW. Would like to know if this organization has been cleared or is subversive in any way.

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 require the enclosures please return them.

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FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 142 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.