UFO Files: The FBI Bureaucratic Response to Citizen Inquiries

On September 2, 1966, a letter arrived at the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., from a widow in Goffstown, New Hampshire. Florence C. Dow, a manager at the New Hampshire Insurance Company, wrote to J. Edgar Hoover to express her fear that a three-dollar subscription to the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America had unintentionally linked her name to the communist party.This episode examines FBI file 62-HQ-83894, Section 10, which contains Mrs. Dow’S letter, her promotional flyers for a Reno, Nevada convention, and the official, boilerplate response signed by Director Hoover. The file documents the Bureau'S internal search process—noting no prior record of the AFSCA—and captures the specific administrative routing stamps and metadata that tracked the communication through the agency’S top brass, including Tolson, DeLoach, and Mohr.Episode 12 follows the specific records of the FBI’S standardized institutional posture, the lists of speakers preserved in the AFSCA convention flyer, and the defining policy sentence in Hoover'S September 6, 1966, reply regarding the Bureau'S refusal to make evaluations of individual or organizational integrity. No hype, no lore, no premature verdict. Just the files, the Evidence, the gaps, and the questions the record leaves open.Sources for this episode are available at: https://nbn.fm/ufo-files/episode/ep12About The UFO FilesThe UFO Files is an investigative podcast analyzing declassified UFO and UAP records, document by document. Every claim is grounded in primary source records, with sources and transcripts published on the Neural Broadcast Network website for verification.