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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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• •. ,. When word got around that Perry had ttu:. _s~things b~ oan 10 happen. Since then he s had at least 50 letters and calls about it. One o1 the letters concerned him greatly. It was from the National Investigation Com mittee on Aet'ial Phenomena. _ The committee had noticed an · article about Perry's find in a 1 Detroit paper. "From past experience with photographic evidence," the Jetter continued, "we con- Perry, who11e hobby Is ex pensive, admits that some financial pin wouldn't be a bad id~ he declared "it I get it back, It's for ev erybody." He llAid he was In f ormed a national magazine wants to use it. Perry Is conf ident that his slide shows some sort o! space vehicle. He bristled with indignat ion when asked i! anyone had sug gested that the saucer might help sell pizza. His pizza, he de clared, is its own best adver tisement. f f f Perry said It shouldn't take sider it unlikely that you an expert long t o tell if the wlll e ,·er see your picture slide is legitimate. The Gov- 1 Id ernment, he believes, wouldn'tagain.'' The e t t e r sa look kindly on a hoax and th NICAP wanted e picture would make a tool o! a person made public. ' trying to .fake such a picture. All Perry knew about the Perry said he did not see the whereabouts ot the picture was object through the scope. He that it was in Air F orce hands. ' was unaware of it until the The FBI would only say that • slide was processed. He does it was in "proper hands," Per- ' his own processing. ry said. So last week Perry wrote to The object, Perry said, the President telling him he looked as It photographed can't find out where h is slide from the s ide. It 1s surround is and asking assurance that he ed by blue-green radiation will get it back. and has the appearance of being In motion. f f f "Everybody who has con- tacted me about It seems to "The only way ~•u be s~ti~, know more about It than I fied if I don't get it back 1~ '.! do,'' he commented. the Government tells me 1t s I top secret," said Perry later. All these people sounded se• He has had oilers tor thel rious, he observed, even the tel slide from groups that indicate low who called long-distance they would g o int? court to _and said he had ridden in a fly. gain possession o.f 1t from the mg saucer and wanted a pie. Government.""~ ~ ture ot one to show his friends. I For t hose who ~nt t o buy Perry said he didn't take him it, Perry has a stock a nswer: seriously, however. j"Il's not for sale." Asked i1 he had actvice .tor others who lJ1ie.~e 'Up with , a picture o! an unidentified ; flying object, he sa id: ,t copy."
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