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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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• •Street, Washington, D. C., Major Donald Keyhoe , Director. Mr . Stringfield noted that the personnel of this committee are made up of civilian personnel . On October 2, 1961 , Mr. Stringfield advised the Cincinnati Office, FBI, Cincinnati, Ohio, that he had noted an article in the Sunday edition of the Cincinnati Enquirer, October 1, 1961, on page 1, section E, under the caption, "Off beat vWashington", which contained one paragraph, "Some Defense Department bigwigs are apprehensive that Russia will climax its campaign of intimidation by a spectacular explosion in space- -an immense nuclear blast visible to hundreds of million s of people . These officials believe that the Soviet Union has the capability of setting off such an explosion 200 miles or so above the earth where it could be seen from many countries." Mr'. Stringfield advised that the above paragraph was printed as a reprint from the Herald Tribune News Service, Washington , D. C., and that this article seemed to tte in well with what the caller had related to Mr. Stringfield in the anonymous telepho:oo call on September 25, 1961, -3-
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