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STANDARDFORMN0. 64 . BlACK !II&Rf)JNGS HERE !NOT M; E 8 Y FIJII FOIJ!'.A
Office Memorandum · uNITED sTATEs GovERNMENT
TO :sgc DETROIT(65-2677)
FROM
suBJECT: UNIDE}~ TIFIED FLYING OBJECT,
JOSEPH PERRY, Grand Blanc,
Michigan-Complainant
DATE: 3/9/60
Reference Detroit Airtel to Director Rough Drafted 3/7/60 and Detroit
Teletype to Director dat~d 3/9/60.
At 5:25P~T, Friday, J;Iarch 4, 1960, Joseph Perry, 3079 Edwards Street,
Grand Blanc, ~Iichigan, telephonically contact·ed the Flint, M.ichigan,
Resident Agency ., advised ..5: !i SA NcNerney; that he op~rates a Pi~za
House at 3075 Edwarc.s Street, Grand Blanc, and the. t as a hobby he
takes photo-graphs of .the moon. He . said that he ha d recently taken
some photographs .which he thinks would be of interest to the US
· Gover11:ment ,_ ~ncl. he requested that an Agent stop at his resid ence on
Saturday,- March 5, 1960. to talk to him. At this time Mr. Perry \'las ,
, advised -that · an Agent .. would call at his residence on r:Iarch 5, 1960.
On M:arch 5, 1960, SA Raymond E. f.Ioomey an d SA McNerney, who vlere ,
"l'iorking on an l'fSP case, sto.pr;e d at Percy's ·r ·es.id ence·, anc1 he furnished
" the ·photographs :wh:i.'ch ~ are described in re -Airtel. :r.Jr. Perry
was · advised that ~ the FBI' did not inve.stigate :klaL::I~:es~n!IJ!t!f any type
of flying objects, and he said that he realiz-ed that, hov;rever, he
· requested that ·the·- EBI check the photographs over, and . therafter,
fonqard them to ' any Governmental Agency deemed appropriate.
Perry was advised ·that the photographs 1-·muld be forward ed and he
said that if possible he would like the photographs returned to him
with an iiii¥ikari1Ei explanation of what the object he thouggt to be ,
a "flying saucern actually is. He saic1 that he realized it could be
something confidential, and if that t.-vere the case, he said he vvould
not expect to have the pictures returned, and would not expect any
explanation. ·
MAM
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