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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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REFLECTING THE FBI FLINT RESIDENT AGENCY WAS FURNISHED SLIDES OF
PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN BY JOSEPH PERRY ALLEGEDLY SHOWI NG A SAUCER-LI KE
OBJECT SI LHOUETTED AGA I NST T~E MOON . ARTI CLE I NDICATES FBI IS
I NTERESTED IN THE PICTURE. J OSEPH PERRY, THREE NAUGHT SEVEN NINE
EDWARDS STREET , GRAND BLANC , MICHIGAN , ON MARCH FOUR LAST
TELEPHONICALLY CALLED THE FLINT RESIDENT AGENCY AND ADVISED AGENTS
HE HAS BEEN A PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER THE PAST THIRTY YEARS. HE
HAS A HOBBY OF TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE MOON THROUGH A HOMEMADE
TELESCOPE , AND AT ABOUT ONE A. M., FEBRUARY TWENTYONE LAST , TOOK
PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE MOON, AND AFTER DEVELOPING SAME NOTED I N ONE
WHAT APPEARED TO BE A FLYING OBJECT . CUSTOMERS OF HI S PIZZA PIE /\
RESTAURANT SUGGESTED THE PHOTOGRAPH MAY REFLECT FLYING SAUCER .
INFORMATION FURNISHED PRESS BY JOE PERRY REFERRED TO ABOVE . FLINT
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