CANADA UFO X-FILE #B077, UFO JOE DANIELS

X-FILE No. B077

REGARDING THE "HENNESSEY LETTER"
BRITISH REQUEST FOR INFO SENT TO OTTAWA
DATE: Thursday, January 23, 1964

REF: Micro-Film Reel T-3291, Department of National Defence,
Intelligence Sighting of Unknown Objects, Record Group 24 Vol 17984 HQC-940-5 Part 2

British UFO investigator Julian Hennessey writes a letter to RCAF requesting information about UFOs. Flight Lieutenant Gammie of the Canadian Joint Staff in London, England forwards the request to his superiors at Headquarters in Ottawa, Canada.

Hennessey was Chairman of the European Sub-Committee for NICAP and a member of LUFORO, which later became BUFORA, and a member of the "Fleet Street UFO Study Group". He's worked with noted ufologists J. Allen Hynek (CUFOS), Don Berliner, Sir Eric Bullus and Sir John Langford-Holt.

Official Thanks to Joe McGonagle of Ufology-UK for information on Hennessey.


			DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENCE
			     CANADIAN JOINT STAFF


                                           Grosvenor Square
                                           London [W1]
                                           England

                                           23 Jan 64


Chief of the Air Staff
Air Force Headquarters
Department of National Defence
Ottawa 4 Ontario

Request for Information
Investigation of Unidentified Flying Objects
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1	The attached letter from Mr. J.A. Hennessey, seeking
information about the address of a Canadian project invest-
igating UFOs and asking for an official statement regarding the
views and policy of the Canadian Government about UFOs is passed
along for your handling because we do not seem to have the in-
formation. Mr. Hennessey has been advised that his letter has
been sent to you


                                           -signed-
                                        (WC Gammie) F/L
                                          PRO - CJS(L)
Att.