Abbreviation for Freedom of Information Act. The US Congress in 1966 acted to increase public accessto government records. It provided that any records, documents, memoranda, statements of policy, andother similar materials be made available to those persons who requested it.Certain documents were exempted from disclosure and this included this such as National Security,Trade Secrets, ongoing investigations, maps of minerals & wells etc.Since the FOIA act many UFO researchers have managed to obtain many remarkable documents fromvarious government agencies which indicated that UFO are the subject of much investigation andsecrecy.However, there are still many UFO documents which have not been released, despite various court casesby groups such as CAUS.FOO FIGHTERSShiny metallic-looking spheres seen floating in the skies in World War II from about 1943 onwards.Both sides believed that they were new rockets being developed by the other side. After the war, neitherside claimed to know anything about them. Each of the following wars have had many sightings of thesespheres. This term is now sometimes used to describe any UFO that displays any aggressive maneuvers.FORD, KATHLEENOf Las Vegas, NV. Takes UFO pictures at Black Mailbox.FORRESTAL, JAMES V.Served as Secretary of the Navy before being promoted to Secretary of Defence in July 1947. In March1949 he resigned from this post due to a mental breakdownIn May 1949 he committed suicide at Bethesda Naval Hospital in suspicious circumstances. He was alsoa member of the alleged Majestic-12 group.FORT, CHARLESCharles Fort was probably the first UFOlogist. He was born in 1874 in Albany, New York where hebecame a reporter and writer. After years of studying old news reports he found a pattern of strangeaerial phenomena that had been reported throughout the years. He instantly became interested in thesubject of UFOs and started writing many books.He was concerned that the subject of UFO was not being taken seriously by science, and said "Science isestablished preposterousness, Science of today - superstition of tommorrow. Science of tomorrow