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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 | 010-146 . "UNITED STATES GO} NMENT Memorandum DIRECTOR, FBI Daves. 10/19/66 TO “a cht SAC, SAN FRANCISCO (62 2927) Ss (8) piss SUBJECT: UNIDENTIFIED FLYING/ OBJECTS 1S. 2 5 — Re Bureau Bulletins No. 57 dated 10/1/47, and No. 38 dated 3/25/49, entitled "FLYING DIScs," Enelosed are copies of an article entitled "Armed Forces - Focus on UFO", which was published in the This World supplement of the San francisco Examiner & Chronicle, Sunday, October 16, 1966, This article deals with the current controversy over the existence or nonexistence of flying saucers or Unidentified Objects (UFOs), and quotes Michigan's Congressional sentative GERALD FORD as suggesting that Cong gress look into UFOs; also it announces that the Air Force, which is charged with investigat. UFOs, has commis the Univer- months, at an estimated cost of $300,q@00. sity of Colonada.and Physics Professor EDWARD 1 to conduct an in-depth study of flying 00 T NIVERS aay: af! The article also points out that since last Summ pressure has been mounting for the establishment of an inde- pendent, civilian controlled investigative ageney to look into the UFO problem, Also, for the Bureau's information, there was re- 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 edition and is available in paperback, published by Bantam Books, and it is probably a contributing factor to the current controversy; In this book author’ Edwards points out that flying saucers were observed in thé) spring of 1946, in “Scandinavia and Russia (which he points out is about a year from the date of the testing of the Lamar atomic bomb), and the book GLOS \ 3) Bureau (Encls, 3) EN F T - Denver beret 1) REC 53 1 - San Francisco DET: 1ms a 3 OCT-21 1966 (5) et EX-114 és : ~ 5. P