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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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A i "I , ' ' . I•StNet., W&ilhington, D.C.., Ma.101' Donald iE&yhoe, J>irect w. . ·tt:- . Stringt.t.eld noted that the peraonnel at thte 0011111ttee ue made up ot o1v~l1an personnel. On October 2, 1961, Mr . Stringfield adYlaed the Cincinnati otttce, PBI, c1nctnnat1, Cldo, that be had noted an aztt1cle 1n the SUnday edition ot the C1nc1r>nat1 EnquiNr, October 1~ 1961, on p~ 1. section B, under the caption, Ot"~t Waabington", lmich contained ()1)$ paragitaph, "Solle Defense Department b1gw1s• are apl)NMna1ve that au1a1a ld.11 oluaax ite c&l!l)algn or 1nt1111dat1on bJ a apectacuta.r explosion in epace--an 1..n•• nuclear blast vlalble to hundred• or m1111ona of people. Tb••• bttic1al• believe that the So•l~t Union haa the capability or aett1ng ott such an ~loelon 200 1111•• or ao above the earth where tt could be aeen troaa ll&n1' oo~tl"!.el. n JIil- .. Stringfield advi1ed that the above paragraph wa.a prlnted ae a reprint from the Herald iTibune ••• Service, waahington., D.C•., and that thla art1cl• aee•d to tJ,e 1n •11 with lihat the oaller ba4 Nlate4 to Mr. Strlllgt1eld 1n th anon)"lDoua telel)l1om call on "6Jpt Jnber 25, 1961.
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