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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 010

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This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section (62-HQ-83894, Section 10) holds UFO-related correspondence from 1966 to 1977. In a 1966 letter, Florence C. Dow of Goffstown, New Hampshire asked whether subscribing to the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America journal might link her to communists. J. Edgar Hoover replied that the Bureau does not evaluate organizations, and a copy of the journal is enclosed. Other items include a 1977 Air Force fact sheet on the end of Project Blue Book and a White House inquiry answered by the FBI, which said it had no jurisdiction over UFO sightings.

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.

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OPTION'AL FORM NO. 10 5010-l'l' • • UNITED STATES GO. NMENT Memoranaum TO DIRECTOR, FBI 10/19/66DATE: SAC, SAN FRANCISCO (62- 292i LJ a•- . SUBJECT: UNIDENTI FI ED FLYING{oBJECTS IS - X J 1 - Re Bureau Bul l etins No . 57 dated 10/1/47, and No . 38 dated 3/25/49, entitled 11 FLYING DISCS . 11 Encl osed a.re copi es of an articl e entitl ed "Armed Forces - Focus on UFO" , which was published in the Thi s World suppl ement of t he San Francisco Exami ner & Chronicl~unday, October 16, 1966. This articl e deal s with the current controversy over the existence or nonexistence of flying saucers or Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), and quotes Michigan ' s Congressional Representative GERALD FORD as suggesting t hat ConGress l ook into UFOs ; a l so it announces that the Air Force, w11ich is charged with investigating UFOs, has c ommissio~~ ;e Univer- sity of Col o¾adQ and Phys ics Professor EDWARD . DON to conduct an in- depth study of f iyi ng s-,f cersfor e "11ex t 18 months , at an estimated cost of $300 , 00. •·~ ....~U llFA ,ry L ~1' The articl e also points out that since f ast summer pressure has been mounting for the establishment of an inde pendent, civilian controlled investigative agency to l ook i nto the UFO problem. j Al so, for the Bureau ' s information, there was re- \ J cently published (first printing June 1966) a book entitled ,(;; "Flying Saucers - Serious Business" , Lyle Stuart, Inc . , publishers , authored by Frank Edwards . This book is now in its third editi on and is availabl e in paperback, published by Blntam Books, and i t i s probably a contributing factor to the current controversy ~ lJ.I In t his book author Edwards points out that flying saucers were observed i n the spring of 1946, in Scandinavia and Russia (which he points out is about a year f rom the date \ ~of the testing of the Alamog~ atomic bomb ) , and the book v ~ 3_r Bureau ( Encl s . 3)~ -CLOS . ~ REC 53 & J- i 3t o/ Lf_ijS/,1 - Denver (Encl . 1) 1 __ 7.• - rt ~ 1 - San Francisco '2) ;- DET : l ms '7 s OCT-:2.i 1966 (5) 5 1 oc.-' rx-114 - ~6! ~!\,.~.~-

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