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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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• •.- Mr. J oseph F. Perry NOTE comI NllED: be flying saucers. At his request Bureau agents c ontacted him and he furnished them the phot ographs which were turned over t o l ocal OSI representatives . Perr y r eported incident t o the press which carried artitles indicating FBI i«Js investigating. We straightened out the ''Detroit Times" on this point. Perry by letter dated J - 21 - 60 wrote t o President Eisenhower pointing out he did not know where his photographs were but he woul d like assurance that they would be returned t o him. Special Agents of Detroit OJ/ice on 4 -12-60 informed Perry that the phot ographs he had v oluntarily turned over t o them had been furni s hed to OSI, Se l fridge Air Force Base, and that the Department of the Aiir Force had been flu rnish ed a copy of his l etter t o the President. Perry in his 4-lJ-60 Jetter thanked the Director f or relaying the message from the White House and indicated he was l ooking f orwa rd t o the c ompleti on oJ Air Force analysis of his photographs s o that "your offi ce " would be able t o return them t o him. He pointed out that "thousands are l ooking f orward" t o viewing the phot ographs. A c op~ oJ the instant letter and a copy of Perry's 4-lJ-oO letter are being furnished Air Force f or tts reply t o Perry. ,,. - 2 -
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