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FBI-UAP-D014: Correspondence Relating to UFO Sightings, 1967, 1974

Released: July 10, 2026

This file contains two pieces of correspondence. The first, dated 9/22/1967, relays a description of an incident provided by an eleven-year-old child in…

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OPTIONAL FORM NO, 10                   5010-107-02
            MAY 1882 EDITION
            GSA GEN. REG. NO. 27

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            Memorandum
TO                           ~CHICAGO(~                                          DATE:    9/22/67


FROM                               SA Co LEONARD TREVIRANUS
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                      '!'OM MITCu(LL, 7825 South Colfax, Chicago (375-9258)
           telephonically ad/i;~d the writer at 9:110 PM on September 16,
           1_967, as follows:

                      He is eleven years of age. Al approximately 8:30
           PM he heard a "weird" noise and looked out the window of
           his resid,ence and saw a "flash of light going north in the
           skyo" He could furnish no additional information but claimed
           this to be a UFO.

                     The ab~ve information was furnished to Sergeant
           EUGENE RIPKA, Army-Air Force 755th Radar Squadron, Arlington,
           Heights, Illinois, telephone 763-8638.



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     Through inquiry of the Department of the Air Fore~, I 1 ve obta· ed a copy
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landed briefly on the ground (discharging the occup1nt, who stroll                                                          about and

returned to the object), and which was seen by at /east three civi ian observers
before it departed.          The report's distribution no/ation cites you                                                office as
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     So that I might complete my research into ubis case, will                                                        u please send

mea copy of any documentation of all FBI follr-up actions th
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taken on the matter?          Also, does your office possess any other. UFO-sighting case
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files covering the period January 1, 1954 through December 3, 1954; and, if so,
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will you please send me a copy of your recor1s of                                                        ally, will you please

tell,me the current mailing address and/or tk:                                                           of the principal

observer, Chicago resident Mrs. Lelah H.                                                     forementioned sighting

of April 8, 1954?
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                                  219 Soutb Dearborn Street:
                                  Chicago, Illinois   60604
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, Mr,. Larry W. Bryant                                                           \..,

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       ..          I have received your letter dated Septe~ber 30·,.
    1914, regar.ding UFO .sightings.   I am sorry to advise you                                              I
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    ·\th~t the Federal Bureau. of Investigation (FBI) has ·no                                                I
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    .information regarding the UFO sighting you describe in
    yo"r letter, and, in fact, the FBI does. not collect informa­
    t1Qn regarding UFO sightings in general. As you are
    prdbably aware, the FBI is the investigative arm of the
    U'ni\:ted States Department of Justice, and is authorized to
    .ilnvestigate only those matters .specifically delegated to
    tt.~y Congress.                    UFO sightings are not such matters.
                   In a.ddition, our files contai.o no information
 regii.rding the current residence or telepho~e number of
'Mrs·...Lelah H.. Stoker, mentioned in your letter .
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