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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.
“Office of Special Investigations”14 pages
• • f • ' • • 1 SL 62- 0 filter center address is given, then the original headquarters address should be used . "We wish to thank you for any assistance you may be able to give us in this respect . Later established filter center addresses will be sent to you for public attention in the event of unusual sightings , that may come to your attention . "Respectfully, /S/ R. T . STONE "For the Inter Continental Aerial Research Foundation" "'- Attached to this letter i-s the notice. i t was requested t-1' be published . This notice is as follows : "Inter Continental Aerial Research Foundation "NOTICE! "To All Concerned: "If anyone has seen any unidentified flying objects- known also as flying saucers--or knows anyone who has seen them since January 1st, 1957, please contact us immediately, giving full names and addresses of the witnesses to these sightings . "We are in the process of setting up UFO Observer Posts all over the United States, Canada, Europe , Alaska, Australia , Japan, Eng.land , Africa, and South America . And each state , province or region will have its own filter center which will serve as a receiving station for all UFO reports and other associated data, a dis tribution point for material from headquarters , and as a general secretary for ICARF . "Our filter- observer network is expanding by leaps and bounds , but we are still far from our goal. "The Air Force investigation has either gone underground , or else they have the answer and are hiding the fact from - 2 -
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