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OPTION'AL FORM NO. 10
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• UNITED STATES GO.
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Memoranaum
TO
DIRECTOR, FBI
10/19/66
DATE:
SAC, SAN FRANCISCO
(62-292i
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SUBJECT:
UNIDENTI FIED FLYING{oBJECTS
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Re Bureau Bul l etins No . 57 dated 10/1/47, and No .
38 dated 3/25/49, entitled
11FLYING DISCS.
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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; al so it announces that the Air Force, w11ich is
charged with investigating UFOs, has commissio~~ ;e Univer­
sity of Col o¾adQ and Physics Professor EDWARD
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DON to
conduct an in- depth study of f iyi ng s-,f cersfor
e "11ext 18
months, at an estimated cost of $300, 00.
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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.
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Al so, for the Bureau ' s information, there was re-
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cently published (first printing June 1966) a book entitled
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"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~
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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
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