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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 roit, 1cblm.tll
File No. fa:rr,h 9• 1960
R nld,~nt1f1e :lying Object;
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on h 5, l 60.
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tho.t h has a h()bby of tak1n boto r T.)h:9 of ti1e moon tht'Outh
n h~ - a o t l oop . t nbeut l~OO n ebru.ry 21,
1960, h. took ~om• boto-naphs of tho ~on rui nf r ov~lopine
ua11c , be ut thom tn b t. v owor, ·nd .i.n on photograph be
otrserv d 'What a re to be a flyi.ng object :ooiu,wh"'ro oetu n
the o~a of his tola~cope nd 'tho a;;rf&co ,r tho noon . lfo nid
t;h&t whoo '1)1 wn up, tbl objoct in f lo.t on tbe bottom, 1.s
oval hapcbjor-t.
orry uo th lvty , ar 1 :q,eri nee
in photor;ra , th t wh t Q ,pea1,s on tt,e t,1cture
1$ e.ctuuXl y n £ly! obj c~, nd 1s ~ot n alfunc 1on of tbo
ca ra, ~snot n h1ur on hie telo copo , nd 1 Th~t a.nyth1llG
that c.1;p ar.s on the photo b c use of the mrum r in -:m.1cb ho
dov()lopo<l tho f11n . ''crry took a.bout tvrenty p1cturori of tho
oon 'JQrt •cbru.nry 2 1, 1960, and ft ~ aov •loping thom, ho
obse111v ed thnt 11lO, t or tho p t ctur G wol' Wl.dcr- oxpor.iod, oo ho
j ot cut o£f tho two ti t. apponred to bo pr.oporly e:<:poac a...-rid
d str.rJy-od th re t . He .furnish d both of tho o pictu1·os tn
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