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FEDERA~BUREAU OF
~IIIENTJAL
INV,STIGATION (3-9-Sll) I
FORM No.1
nus CASE ORICJINATm AT DETROIT
Ra:PORT MADE AT
,DETROIT, MICHIGAN
DATE WHEN
MADE .
2/11/55
DETROIT FLYING SAUCER CLUB
SYNOPSIS OF FACTS:
P~f-IOD FOR WHICH MADE.
1;6,10,11,17 '
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REPORT MADE BY
RICHARD B. SMITH plr
CHARACTER OF CASE
ESPIONAGE - X
Club formed in summer of 1954, and has since report~1 sightings of
saucers by its members. Purpose and activities of - ~Lub set out. One
club director claims they will cooperate with anyone on flying
saucer information and two of them ~y go to Washing~on, D.. c. to
;furnish ttr· Air Force information on saucers as WAll as to obtain
information. No indication this club has any su~versive co~Qtions.
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The purpose ·of this report Ri@Rl&Y.se:t.--£-ol?-t~£lia_{lir.ormation
: ·:available· on the Detroit Flying Saucer Club and its activitieso No
~ctive investigation of this club has been conducted by the FBI and
the. ~nformation was voluntarily furnished by those submitting it.
. On May 18, 1954, through MJ:. .. HAROLD TYLER, Assistant City
Editor, Detroit Free Press, a Detroit daily newspaper, Mrs. JEAN
PEARSON, Aviation writer, .Detroit Free Press, advised she had been
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attending meeting~ concerning flying saucers, rockets to the moon, "'·--=-·
etc., which she felt could be subversive.
Mrs .. PEARSON and Mr. BUD GOODMAN, Detroit Free Press
· Editorial Writer, advised on May 18~
talked in Detroit on . flying saucers. 1954, that one GEORGE ADAMSKI had
T~ey we~e alarmed ·at __~e nature .
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APPROVED AND
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