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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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FD-36 (Rev. 12-13-S6)
FBI
Date: 3/28/60
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AIRTEL AIR ~irAILVia _________
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TO )IR.:CT JR , FBI
FrloM: SAC , )8TROIT (65- 2677 )
UNID.i:I: TI FIZD FLYING J3JECT;
OS~?H ERRY , Grand Blanc , Michigan-
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Re Doairtel, 3/ 9/6~ and 1)ctel, 3 / 9/ 60 .
'\. An art i c l e appeared in the "Flint Journal " , Flint , ~:ich.,
~r\ dated 3/27/60 by 1epor te r ALLAN '1 . •J:::LH-:::LM. This article
app0ared on .Page 13 . The artic l e ref l ects an interview 1vith
rz~ay and in part states that P~RRY had received at leas t 50
otters and calls in regard to the photograph he had taken .
One letter was from Nat i onal Invest i gation Commi ttee on Aerial
Phenomenon . The art i cle contain s the followi ng quote f r om
. thi s letter , "From past experienc e with photographic evidence1
t ~ we consider it unlike l y t hat yo u will ever see your pic t ure
if;. >4.1.again . 11 PERRY had advise d the newspa per that a l l he knew was
·c . ~1o----,;:tha t the p icture was in Air Forc e hands . The FBI only says
:-- • 1 that it is in "proper '1ands 11 , accordinr to PERRY . The art icl e
~ ~ continued , 11 So last week P:SRRY wr ote to the Pr o sident tel l ing
. him he can I t find out ,.,here his slide is and asking assurance
::~ ~ that he wi l l got it back . " PERRY was quoted as saying , "The
~ ~- only way I will be satisfied if I 1
10n ' t ('!'et it back i s if the #t·· Government tolls me it is top secret . "
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!: b ~ The photograph referred to above wa s ~ a . 35 mm s l ide which
~ :x: o was furn i shed to Q-:!I , SAFB, by le t ter dated 3/9/60 .
OSI , Se l fridg e Air For c o 3ase , I-~t. Cl emens , Mich., advised of
the above . Addit i onal informat i on follows which ,~111 include
a copy of clipping . ~ I\
3 - Bureau fX-]35 REC- l~ ~ - &'? 8'!'1'-
1 - Detroit 15 MAR 29 1960'lLS/ mac
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