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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.
•• UNITED ~ ..c.!.S GOVERN MENT TO DIRECTOR, FBI D AT E: 1/6/58 ,.o~ t sAc, s~urs ( 62- 0) --._O 1 suBJBCT~ROBERT T~STONE; INTER C-ON NENTAL AERIAL '---._ RESEARCH FO ATION; , \---- NFORMATION CONCERNING Mr . B. ~WATSON, City Editor, Hannibal Courier- Post, Han~i~ , Missouri, on 12/20/57 advised the Res1dent Agent at Hannibal that he was in receipt of an undated letter signed R. T. STONE . This letter bears the letterhead Inter- Continental Aerial Research Foundation a~n the upper right corner there is typed the following ISSOURI FILTER CENTER, Robert T. Stone, Director, 10 27th Terr . , Independence, Missouri" . Below this ~n pencil is a notation made by Mr . WATSON which is "Air Defense Identification Zoning . " The letter is as follows : (Y\/' "Dear Editor: "The enclosed notice is self- explanatory. we would -like to request this public service in the name of Truth, 1 which the newspapers of our great countries so proudly defend and uphold . "As a civilian body of investigators, we hope to unravel the snarled mess that shrouds the u . F . o. ques tion, and with the help of the newspapers and the public , where can we fail? "We will be grateful if you will publish the enclosed appeal on the front page of your newspaper, in a conspicuous enough manner that no one will fail to notice it . It is the public we must depend upon to get thoroughly organized , and with this co- operation we are certain that we can find / the answer to the riddle of the "Flying Saucers." "If a filter center has been established in your Ystate or province, this form letter will carry its address which should replace the Headquarters addres:_.,_,/ ' , /11 given on the enclosed "Publ ic Notice . If no such ;;JJfJ~ - 1 '21- BUREAU (ENc~E~RDtu. sa c ✓-- / __ ,Yo2~ ~ 2 - KANSAS CIT¥ ~ 1n JI ~ l . , ) , 1 - ST. LOUIS (62- 0) IND<-v'":1) CJ\- '1"J / 8 J f~):njj , ' • Fi3 l ,, tf' '--3 lP / f_'k-!'¼ ~ ~ 0 ~
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