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This section of FBI file 62-HQ-83894 collects Bureau correspondence on flying saucers from 1957 to 1966. It includes a 1957 memo on the rise in UFO reports after Sputnik, in which the Air Force told the FBI that the recent sightings were nonauthentic. It also holds a Havana report of a disc over Matahambre, Cuba, and inquiries about Robert T. Stone's Inter Continental Aerial Research Foundation and a Torrington, Connecticut sighting. Hoover's replies state that UFOs were never within FBI jurisdiction.
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION In Reply, Please Refer to Detroit , Michigan File No. March 9 , 1960 Re: Unidentified Flying Object; Joseph Perry , Grand Blanc , Michigan - Compl ainant Mr . Joseph Ierry , 3079 Edwards Street , Grand Blanc , Michigan, was contacted at his request by Agents of this office on ~arch 5, 1960 . Hr . Perry advised that he operates a Pizza House at 3075 Edwards Street , Grand Blanc , and that he has been a professional photographer for thirty years . He explained that he has a hobby of taking photographs of the moon through a home- made telescope . At about 1:00 a . m. on February 21 , 1960, he took some photographs of the moon and after ~eveloping sa.me , he put them in his viewer and in one photograph he observed what appears to be a flying object somewhere between the end of his telescope and the surface of the moon . He said that when blown up , this object is flat on the bottom, is oval shaped , and appears to have a fluorescent glow around the entire object , and that it is apparently moving as it has a vapor trail running behind it . He has taken over one thousand pictures of the moon and has never soen anything resembling this object . Perry said that due to his thirty years ' experience in photogra,hy , he is sure that what appears on the picture is actually a flying object , and is not a malfunction of the camera , is not a blur on his telescope , and is not anything that appears on the photo because of the manner in which he deve loped the fi l m. Perry took about twenty pictures of the moon on February 21 , 1960, and after developing them, he observed that most of the pictures were under- exposed , so ho just cut off the two that appeared to be properly exposed and destroyed the rest . He furnished both of those pictures to the FBI .
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