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J. Edgar Hoover's FBI Took UFOs Seriously, Documents Suggest
By Lee Speigel - AOL NewsSeveral UFO stories appeared in the news this week, many miles and years apart. Yet they share a possible similar explanation: Earth-based remote-controlled devices. Earlier this month, the FBI created a new website, "The Vault," which offers the public an opportunity to view documents in an online "electronic reading room." Some of the 2,000-plus documents are about UFOs, including several from 1947 -- right around the time of the famously reported UFO crash near Roswell, N.M. FBI This 1947 document was sent by a Milwaukee, Wis., FBI agent to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover ...
The JFK-UFO Connection: Bogus Documents or Unanswered Questions?
By Lee Speigel - AOL NewsDo you like a good UFO detective story? Well, here's one for you. And it's ongoing, so we don't yet know the ending. It involves President John F. Kennedy's interest in UFOs shortly before his death and an allegation that he may have angered officials in his administration when he asked for information on the subject. Recently, the FBI opened a new website, "The Vault," that lets you view a variety of documents, including those regarding UFOs. I looked into one document that appears to include a phony UFO story and mentioned how important it is to be extremely careful when looking at UFO ...
Three Online Poker Houses Face Fraud Charges in NYC
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- The multibillion-dollar business of the three biggest Internet poker companies became a target of federal authorities before an indictment was unsealed Friday, charging 11 people with bank fraud and illegal gambling. Prosecutors in Manhattan said they've issued restraining orders against more than 75 bank accounts in 14 countries used by the poker companies, interrupting the illegal flow of billions of dollars. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said the defendants "concocted an elaborate criminal fraud scheme, alternately tricking some U.S. banks and effectively bribing others to ...
FBI Takes to the Sky in Long Island Serial Killer Search
By David Lohr - AOL NewsThe FBI took to the air today to assist the Long Island serial killer investigation. The federal law enforcement agency is using high-tech planes and helicopters equipped with high-resolution cameras to take aerial images of beach areas where at least eight sets of human remains have been found in the past four months. "The aviation bureau [previously] identified a significant number of items that aren't natural to the area," Nassau County Acting Police Commissioner Thomas Krumpter said at a 7 a.m. media briefing today. "It is unknown at this time what they are, and that is what we are doing ...
FBI's UFO Doc From 'The Vault' Most Likely a Hoax
By Lee Speigel - AOL NewsIn the past few days a story has come out about a new FBI site called "The Vault" that allows history buffs and Web surfers the chance to check out a variety of documents, including some about UFOs. One particular 1950 document seems to be taking on a viral life of its own. Written by FBI agent Guy Hottel and sent to the bureau's director, J. Edgar Hoover, it relates how "flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico. They were described as being circular in shape with raised centers, approximately 50 feet in diameter. "Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only 3 feet ...
FBI to Aid NY Cops Probing Possible Serial Killer
By not in system - AOL NewsYAPHANK, N.Y. -- The FBI will supply high-tech surveillance aircraft to authorities investigating a possible serial killer on New York's Long Island later this week, a police official said Wednesday, after the discovery of 10 sets of human remains in recent months near a highway leading to the popular Jones Beach State Park. Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer said federal investigators will supply both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft equipped with special cameras that will scour more than 15 miles of the Ocean Parkway along a remote barrier island south of Long Island in ...
Fox News: Blagojevich Wants Notes From Obama's FBI Interview
By not in system - AOL NewsFormer Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich believes President Barack Obama can help his legal defense in Blagojevich's fast approaching retrial, scheduled to begin April 20. ...
Six Decades Later, FBI's Ten Most Wanted List Still Tough to Crack
By Allan Lengel - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- In the film "Take the Money and Run," Woody Allen played a bumbling, publicity-starved petty criminal named Virgil Starkwell. "You know he never made the Ten Most Wanted list," Starkwell's wife, Louise, lamented in the 1969 comedy. "It's very unfair voting. It's who you know." As Allen's fictitious character learned, getting on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list is no easy feat. Just being a vicious criminal or a menace to society isn't always enough. For one, there has to be an opening. And then there's the selection process: A committee at FBI headquarters reviews ...
FBI Asks Public to Help Decode Baffling Notes From 1999 Slaying
By David Lohr - AOL NewsInvestigators trying to solve the mysterious death of a Missouri man 12 years ago are asking for the public's help in deciphering coded notes found on the victim in what has become one of the top unsolved cases in the FBI's cryptanalysis division. "We will take any help we can get," Lt. Craig McGuire of the St. Charles County (Mo.) Sheriff Department told AOL News. "We are hopeful the notes will give us a little more information. Any credible information we can get, we will look into." The investigation began on June 30, 1999, in West Alton, a community of about 600 people located roughly 30 ...
FBI Joins Hunt for Teen Mom Kidnapped During Home Invasion
By David Lohr - AOL NewsThe FBI has joined the search for a missing New Jersey teen mom who police say was kidnapped during an armed home invasion and robbery in Atlantic City. Atlantic City Police Deputy Chief Ernest Jubilee said at a press conference that the bureau is offering a reward of up to $20,000 for information that leads to the recovery of 19-year-old Nadirah Ruffin and the arrest and successful prosecution of the individual or individuals responsible. Atlantic City Police Nadirah Ruffin, 19, was kidnapped Saturday from a cousin's house during an armed home invasion in Atlantic City, N.J. "We ...
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