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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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• • In Reply, Please Refer to Fik No. UNITED STATES DEPARTME NT OF JUSTICE • FEDERAL BUREAU OF I NVESTIGATION Detroit, Michigan May 20, 1960 Unidentified Plying Object; Josepn Perry. Grand Blanc, Michigan - Complainant At 3:58 p . m. on May 20, 1960, Jerry Chiappetta, who advised that he was on the City 'Dealt for the "Detroit Ti.mean at Detroit. Michitan, telephoned the Flint, Michigan, Resident Agency and advised that be bad just received a telephone call from Dave Downey, who resides in Wa~e County, Michigan . Downey reportedly advised the "Detroit Times" that he is the District Director of the Aerial Phenomenon Investiga tion Society. Downey stated that Joseph Perry, of Grand Blanc, Michigan, received a slide from Selfridge Air Force Base, Mt. Clemens, Michigan, on Yay 3, 1960. This slide is tho property of Joe Perry, of Grand Blanc, and Perry had claimed this slide contained a photograph of the moon and that it showed what appeared to be a flying object somewhere in the vicinity of the moon . Downey said when tho Air Force returned the photograph, they gave Perry a letter explaining that what appears to be a flying object in this slide is actually a part of the negative which was not properly developed. Downey reportedly told the "Detroit Times" that be does not believe this story as he knows that Joe Perry is very meticulous when he develops pictures; therefore, he feels the slide actually does contain a picture of a flying object and that he intends to obtain this slide and forward it to tho Eastman Kodak Company for further analysis. This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of any kind . It is tho property of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and is a loan to your agency; it and/or its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.
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