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A 1958 FBI memo detailed information provided to the Bureau by well-known UFO writer Ivan Sanderson, Sanderson and Santesson told the FBI about their concerns surrounding a group called the New York Saucer Sanderson and Santesson explained the first few meetings conducted by NYSIB “dealt primarily with UFO Ivan Sanderson (1911-1973) Those named by Sanderson and Santesson as influential at the meetings included “Both Sanderson and Santesson advised that they would be willing to cooperate with the FBI in any manner

Sanderson and Swedish-born New York writer and editor Hans Santesson were subsequently interviewed by Sanderson and Santesson expressed willingness to cooperate with the FBI in furnishing information in The Bureau apparently took Sanderson up on the offer. Ivan Sanderson and Hans Santesson The 1963 FBI memo documents Robert Theodore Stark was employed in 1957 The man looked familiar, Sanderson apparently indicated, but he could not place him.

In reality, Sanderson asserted, the meetings were designed to convince attendees the U.S. government The memo documented that Sanderson and associate Hans Santesson specifically named contactees Daniel Fry and Truman Bethurum as staples of NYSIB meetings, and that both Sanderson and Santesson offered to EFR subsequently obtained a 1963 FBI memo indicating the Bureau did indeed circle back to Sanderson, That circumstance – the re-interview of Sanderson – is referenced in the records responsive to Daniel

Sanderson and Santesson The EFR ongoing investigation started, or at least got a substantial boost, Agents soon visited Sanderson, who was joined for the interview by associate Hans Santesson. Both Sanderson and Santesson committed they would be willing to cooperate with the FBI in any manner The subject of the FOIA request that brought it to our attention was not NYSIB, Sanderson or Santesson Sanderson FBI circled back to interview Sanderson further about the New York Saucer Information Bureau

Specifically, a 1958 FBI memo obtained by EFR documented how Ivan Sanderson and Hans Santesson advised they first started, meetings held by the NYSIB around New York City dealt primarily with UFO matters, Sanderson some of this may very well be, these are probably not the reasons that individuals ranging from Ivan Sanderson As suggested by Ivan Sanderson and Hans Santesson when taking it upon themselves to initiate contact Negroes”: As we continue to work through the saucer-related FOIA records of the era, as motivated by Sanderson

provide more pieces to a puzzle that emerged from a previously obtained 1958 FBI memo referencing Ivan Sanderson The memo documented Sanderson initiating contact with the FBI, leading to an interview in which he and associate Hans Santesson advised agents of potentially subversive activity taking place at meetings Sanderson and Santesson directly identified purported UFO contactees Daniel Fry and Truman Bethurum as requests submitted by EFR, including following up to learn if FBI documented more interactions with Sanderson

Prior to that, in 1958, UFO writer Ivan Sanderson contacted the Newark Field Office with similar concerns He and writer and editor Hans Santesson subsequently spoke with agents about the New York Saucer Information sources, as well as submitting additional FOIA requests on names dropped to the FBI by Davidson and Sanderson Bethurum was documented in a 1958 FBI memo to have been named by Sanderson as a regular attendee at Sanderson and Santesson advised the FBI, the memo stated, that “the New York Saucer Information Bureau

through a previous FOIA request which indicated the FBI interviewed a popular UFO personality, Ivan Sanderson As was the case with Mebane, FBI documented Sanderson referenced her by name as someone who might help