Documents / Document
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.
“FBI file”21 pages
• •CI 100-11671 Stringfield as an Advertising Executive of the DuBois Chemical Company, and further shows that his ~tudy of reports on flying saucers, however, have convinced him they are from other planets. Additionally, a news article appeared in the Cincinnati Post and Times Star, a daily newspaper of general circulation in the Cincinnati, Ohio, area, under date of June 4, 1960, page 5, captioned, ''Tell Secrets on Saucers, Expert Says 11 , which article is set forth verbatim as follows: "Leonard Stringfield, Cincinnati's flying saucer expert, believes the United States could take the space spotlight away from Russia by opening up secret files on unidentified flying objects. ·, It could be the start of co-oper'-3.tion among all governments of the world,' he says . 'If all governments would pool their information on unidentified flying objects and work in unison on this it would help to ease world tensions.' Stringfield, advertising manager for DuBois Chemicals, Inc., believes the unidentified flying objects are from outer space and that they are controlled by intelligent beings who are observing earth. ., 'I don 1 t believe there is any hostile intent, 1 he said. •r believe they have been using planets in our solar system for bases, even the moon. Astronomers for years have observed shifting spots on the moon. 1 Stringfield said he believes U.S. Air Force secret files contain evidence •or near evidence' that the objects are from outer space, but that officials are afra1d that it would cause panic if released. Foreign governments, too, have such evidence, he said, but are keeping it secret for the same reason. Stringfield, who heads Cincinnati's Unidentified Flying Object Society, became interested ln unidentified flying objects in 1945 while in the Air Force. He sa id -2-
Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 290 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.