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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 13

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 148 pages · text by OCR

This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section collects 1954 to 1961 correspondence and memoranda about flying saucers. Most of it concerns the Detroit Flying Saucer Club, which the Detroit office reported on from informants and chose not to investigate, while Bureau headquarters said saucer matters belonged to the Air Force. It also includes public letters to J. Edgar Hoover, a 1955 North Carolina sighting report, Leonard Stringfield's 1961 anonymous warning call, and policy reviews that restate the practice of referring reports to the Air Force.

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  • p. 3 …In a book which I have just read, entitled "flying saucers uncensored" written by Harold T…
  • p. 33 …By a strange coincidence I read there two papers at the same time and then I…
  • p. 51 …clippings are greatly appreciated; each is carefully read and filed. Since the April Newsletter, more than…
  • p. 52 …Hardy, USAC geology professor read: In the region extending from Clarkston south to Paradise, exhaustive interrogation…
  • p. 53 …It reads: 'A silvery, balloon-like object floating high over the Utica area sent resident rushing…
  • p. 59 …the Government concerning this matter, he began reading books on flying saucers. Hutson advised that during…
  • p. 64 …the Government concerning this matter, he began reading books on flying saucers. advised that during the…
  • p. 76 …Enclosed are some booklets pertaining to our activities which I hope you will enjoy reading. Saucer…
  • p. 79 ## REG22 JUL 20 2 W PH '66 REC'D~READING ROOM F B I I received…
  • p. 86 …I am writing to ask about flying sources reading material that is being sent through the…
  • p. 88 …February 21, 1963 ## Dear Sir: ## 0 I am writing to ask about Flying Saucers reading material…
  • p. 123 …scientist in my own fields who have read your public documents, "Nuclear Rocket Propulsion," etc. I…
  • p. 128 …Hoover returned to the office, he read your letter of September 17th. He instructed me to…
  • p. 130 …UFOs and has done considerable research through reading and writing and obtaining information through directing letters…
Office Memorandum . UNITED STA. GOVERNMENT

20 . L. V. Boardman

DATE: April 13, 1956

--reviewed memorandum dated April 10, 1955, from to Mr. Nichols prior to being questioned for any other details which might be of assistance to the Air Force in this matter. She advised she had seen the object for only a few second that it was still dark when she observed it, although it was near daylight on April 6, 1956. She stated when daylight came she observed the sky to be cloudy and it started raining approximately 30 minutes after she had observed the object. She recalled the object had approached their car on the driver's side from straight ahead at a height which she thought to be less than 25 feet. She was unable to estimate the speed of the object. She described it as being oval shaped, being very bright and having a light blue color. It made no sound that she could hear. She advised her fiance would be able to state exactly where they had observed the object in North Carolina, inasmuch as he was familiar with that area. She was unable to recall any additional pertinent information.

On April 9, 1955, was interviewed concerning her sighting of an unusual object about dawn April 6, 1955, while driving on Route 1 near Henderson, North Carolina, with her fiance, Jr., an employee of the JC was interviewed for additional details in this matter on April 12, 1955, by Supervisor

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There is enclosed a letter to the Office of Special Investigations in this matter.

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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. 148 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.