FBI Files Reveal 1967 Letter to J. Edgar Hoover Promoting Ge

FBI Files Reveal 1967 Letter to J. Edgar Hoover Promoting George Adamski's UFO Contactee Magazine

In August 1967, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover received a letter introducing 'UFO CONTACT,' a magazine dedicated to the work of the late George Adamski, a prominent UFO contactee. The magazine included an open letter to Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, urging her to hear evidence from Adamski's successors.

Published

September 7, 2026

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The Black Vault (FOIA archive)

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1967 Letter to Hoover Introduces UFO Contact Magazine

On August This single piece of correspondence, preserved in the FBI's records and later released through The Black Vault's FOIA archive, offers a window into how federal agencies received unsolicited material from UFO proponents during a period of intense public interest in unidentified flying objects. The letter itself is notable for its tone—respectful, even celebratory, wishing Hoover a happy birthday—and for its strategic aim: to bring the magazine's message to the attention of the nation's VIPs. By sending the publication directly to the FBI's top official, the reporter sought to legitimize a movement that claimed contact with extraterrestrial beings, a claim that the Bureau would neither confirm nor deny in the surviving documentation.

This document, then, is not evidence of extraterrestrial visitation but rather a snapshot of the cultural and bureaucratic intersections of the 1960s, when UFO contactee literature flowed into the highest levels of American law enforcement.

UFO Contact Magazine's Editorial Defense of Adamski

The editorial…

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