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FBI file 62-HQ-83894, section 9

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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.

  • p. 86 …1 - Norfo;; - Enclosure ~ I!~~:~:a~ Note for Norfolk: Enclosed for information only. Belmont -- Bufiles negative re…
  • p. 204 …Gandy ~ ' Secretary£EP2 7 1963 COMM-FBI -~ 1 - Norfolk (62-720) Reurairtel 9-24-63 . -- NOTE…
  • p. 206 …SAC, NORFOLK 62-720 - C ~SUBJECT: LARRY W. BRYANT NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA RESEARCH (CORRESPONDENCE AND TOURS…
  • p. 207 -- I , NF 62- 720 This letter was forwarded to the Norfolk Office by the Richmond Division…
  • p. 209 …SAC, Norfolk ~ C'") t.rFrom: ~ctor, FBI ~ "'tt ....,7 ? "-, Ct:) $ ~LARRY \\·. ~YANT NEWPORT NEWS, YlB~ ., ;: ~ -1…
  • p. 239 …Castles of our Norfolk Office. Bryant states SA Castles con tacted him in response to Bryant…
  • p. 241 …Prior to responding to Bryant, the Norfolk Office advised as follows: Bryant has directed a voluminous…
  • p. 247 …8, 1963, to the Conmander of the Norfolk (Va.) Naval Base. Upon furnishing Mr. Castles the…
• •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.
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