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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 • I F'D-36 (Rev . 0 12-13- 56) I I I I I FBI I I Date: 5/ 20/ 60 I I I Transmit the following in _______________________....1 ( Type in plain text or code) 1 I Via AIRTEL AIRMAIL : (Priority or Method of Mailing) I - ------------ - ----------------------------1\~- - - L------- TO : Director, FBI ~~ FROM: SAC, Detroit (65-2677) ~ UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT; JOSEPH PERRY, GRAND BLANC, MICHIGAN - COMPLAINANT (NAT~ ALITIES INTELLIGENCE) r I J~ .._~)\ ReBulet to Office of Special 4/21/ 60. Enclosed herewith are 5 copies of a letterhead memo explaining a telephone call from the "Detroit Times" at Detroit, Mich. , to the Flint , Mich., Resident Agency on 5/ 20/ 60. It is noted that the Flint RA immediately advised Detroit upon r eceipt of this call from Reporter JERRY CHIAPPETTA of the "Detroit Times". The ASAC in turn immediately contacted JERRY CHIAPPETTA to determine the extent of his inquiry o f our RA and it was determined he had merely had a call from DAVE DOWNEY, referred to in letterhead memo, and DOWNEY, by inference, had stated it was his understanding that the FBI Agents in Flint had previously "snatched" the 2 photos from JOSEPH PERRY. CHIAPPETTA stated he knew that the FBI did not operate that way and inasmuch as he was doing a research on his morgue files he wanted to clarify this information. CHIAPPETTA's attention was directed to a previous contact by the Detroit Of fice with the "Detroit Time s" at the time the incident occurred and it was reiterated to this Reporte r that the FBI did not investigate this case and doe s not investigat7 ! f - REC- 20 . ill y , l?t ' 3 - Bureau (Encls. - 5) - • = ,._;r - Detroit AGENCY OS/ • ~ MAY 21 196U MAM : sva REQ. REC'D ~..,_n* \ RTE d(4) ~~~ F~~~~- .S- ~ -:~~ • Bl F ~"t\ ~ ., /1 Sent -- -~p; rove&: 6ff • -- - ~ 6 4 mAY ;1119 cial Agent in Charge ~
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