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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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t • Office of Special Investigations Air Force that we do not gather evidence concerning untdenttfled flying objects for the Departmnt of the Air Force, although any lnJormatlon volunteered is, o;. course, accepted; and that the photograph •nttoned in the 1 'Detrott TITfll!s " article u,as not examined by the PBI Laboratory or anyon• else for FBI purposes. Mr. Hall r.oae ,turthJlr adPlsed that this Bureau furntshed two photographs obtained fron Joa•ph Perry to a representative of th6 Depart11lent of the Atr :Poree ;tor whatever action was deerud appropriate by that agency. On Jbrch Jl, 1960, the Depart,unt of Justice furnished this Bureau a letter dated lhrch 21, 1960, from Joseph P. Perry, directed to the Prttsident. This letter had been re/erred to the Department of Justice by the White House. A copy of this lett•r ts enclosed. Our Detroit Of/tee will contact Perry and adDlse htm that his letter directed to thll Prestdent lu:ls been r1/erred to this Bureau; that tJu; photographs in question were furnished to the Offtcs of Special Investigations, Depart-.ent o;/ the .A.tr Poree, Selfrtdgs Air Force Base, l/Ount Cleans, lllchtgan; and that a copy o/ his lstter to the President has been furnished to you. Enclosures - 2 NOTE FOR SAO, DETROIT: Enclosed ts copy of letter from Perry to the President. Assure that Perry is contacted immediately and advised that his letter to the President was referred to us by the Department of Justice which had received it from the White House and you are acknowledging receipt thereof. Point out to Perry that the contents of his letter have been carefully noted and for his information the photographs he voluntarily turned over to agents of your office were immediately furnished to the Office of Special Investigations, Department of the Air Force, Selfridge Air Force Base, Mount Clemens, Michigan. Also inform him that the Department of the Air Force has been - 2 -
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