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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 Stlteet, waahington, D.C., MaJor Donald Keyhoe, Dir'ector. Mr. Stringfield noted that the personnel of thia committee are made~ of civilian personnel. On October 2, 1961, Mr. Stringfield advised the Cincinnati otfice, l'BI, Cincinnati, Ohio, that he had noted an article in the Sunday edition of the Cincinnati Enquirer, October 1, 1961, on page l, section B, under the caption, "Oftbeat -CWaahington", which contained one paragraph, "So• Defense Department b1gw1ga are apprehena1ve that uaa1a will climax its c~IIG)a1gn or 1nt111l1dat1on by a. spectaculM- explosion 1n apace--an immense nuclear blast vialble to hundreds of m1111ona or people. These otticials believe that the Soviet Union haa the capability or setting oft suoh an elrJ)loaion 200 milea · or 110 above the earth whe1..e 1t could be aeen from many oountr1ea." 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 tJe in well with what the caller· had related to Mr. !tringfield in the anonymous telephone call on September 25, 1961. -3-
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