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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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- . • • I , .' RE: UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS, lNVESTIGATIVE SOCIETY; GEORGE W. VAN TASSEL ruined, not because of any fear that would be engendered in the public. He said this is due to the number of scien tific discoveries already made and that will be made which are labor saving and or almost permanency so that replacements would not be needed. In swnmation, VAN TASSEL 1s speech was on these subjects: (1) Space people related to occurrences in Bible. (2) Atom Bomb detrimental to earth and universe. (3) Economy is poor and would collapse under ideas brought by space people. Throughout his lecture, VAN TASSEL mentioned only the u. s. economy and Government and the u. s. Air Force. He did refer to the human race numerous times but all references to Government and economy could only be taken as meaning the u. s. One question put to him was whether sightings had been made in Russia or China. He answered this by saying sightings had been reported all over the world, but then specifically mentioned only the U. s., Australia, New Zealand, and New Guinea. He also mentioned that he was not advocating or asking for any action on the part or the audience because he said evil has a way of destroying itself. He did say that he felt that the audience, of about 250 persons, were the only intelligent people in Denver and he knew they had not come out of curiosity but because they wanted to do the right thing. He said that they were above the average in intelligence and when the critical time came, the world would need people such as this to think and guide. An application blank was distributed at the meeting for membership in the Denver society of this organization. - 4 -
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