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FBI file 62-HQ-83894, section 9

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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.

  • p. 198 …linked with the afore mentioned ufos?. If not, are the files on these cases open to…
  • p. 204 …He instructed me to advise you that the confidential nature of our files will preclude compl…
  • p. 206 …Naval Base, Norfol k, Virginia, 6/15/60, requesting i-&formatio_n concerning UFOs . That agency…
  • p. 207 …CASTLES that files in her possession reflect that LARRY WILLIAM BRYANT, who was born, 2/23…
  • p. 239 …1,1/~ o ;_; Bureau files reveal an inquiry from Bryant to the Director in F ebruary…
  • p. 241 …That Bryant's manuscript on UFO be returned to the Department of Defense· by our liaison…
  • p. 247 …files." Mr. Castles volunteered the followings "If the FBI has any such data f.on UFO…
  • p. 252 …The IIOUFO has been inves ti gating UFO and flying saucer sightings since August 1958 . We…
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w wr• tnv•stlgattng this mtt•r. SAO, Detroit, contacted
appropriate officials at the newspaper and advised them
that this zoos not the case.
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