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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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• 2842 . 57th St. Seattle 7, Washingto October 10, 1960 . Personnel Section, Federal Bureau of Investigation, u. s. Dep 1 t of Justice, 9th & ?ennaylvania, Washington, n. c. Gentlement There is a gentleman, or caused to be published, a a 11 Dr." Stranges , ,:i\o has publi shed, book dealing witV1Flying Saucers 11 • Sincerely, 1 ~ ,_, / 0 ,_,, 0-~.!'< "crAlfred Zig er. In public and in private the man infers that he is a former member of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. t~ ;J1is true? UJ t}S t7 ' Thie "Dr . ~tranges ( Doetor of What? -- hae never been explained.)i s ry careful of hie wording, in speech and in writing, inferri g many things, yet doing ao in a manner that will allow him to deny them, if necessary. He quite skilfully avoids answering directly to direct questions. Al l of t his ie done in a manner indicating that he ie rather careless of the truth, yet the sort of thing that is pretty hard to pin down. "Dr . 11 Stranges has coupled hie "Flying Saucers " with a religious theme in such a manne r that he is invited to occupy the pu l pit in churches around the land. It is my pe rsonal opinion that the man i s using the churches f or his private g~in. (Tax free, no doubt.) I am not aware that he has broken the law in any res pect, but from a moral stand point, he is, I feel, worse than a law breaker. He will be coming again to my church in a fe'IV v•eeks, and on the occasion of his other visit t o ld several quite patent lies. If t his man is either by law, or morally, a fraud I am quite opposed to his a ppearance in my church. I would appreciate kno~ing if he is, in t ruth, a former member of your organization. \ M r . M •G11 r e Mr. Ro!;en _____ Mr. T an1m ··- Mr. 'f, , i:, r I Mr. W.C.Sulli;;;; j Tele. Room _ _ Mr. Ingram......._ Miss Gandy__ 33
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