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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• 2201 Rockefelle r Rd . Wickliffe , Ohio 44092 Jan . 15 , 1964 FBI Office of Public Information Washington 25 , D. C. Dear Sir; A research group t hat I am in is presently engaged in the study of the eubjQ t of UFOs ( Unidentified Flying Objects) , s ometimes ludicrous -ly termed "flying saucerst'. ~ Since ou r research takes us into every aspect of the subject, certain r umors and statements appear which we feel justify an examination to the fullest. One such statement is that , certain federal a gencies, namely the FBl and CIA, have carried on private investigations of UFOs and/or t hat such a gencies have, at times, worked in conjunction with t he Air Force on its own study of t he subje ct . Anothe r such statement is that, a gents of the i ntelli gence bureaus (FBI and CIA) have, at times, pres- -sured private citizens to keep quiet about t~ "mysterious objec_!f~ . / 1/-' - sor-xs ~ t ~ 1 J ~Y-=- -t hat t hey saw. 1 -.JI'" I ;,_,J .:l64 My group would be very glad if your a gency would either confirm -or deny the above statements regarding , ~of c oarse, only t he FBI and i ts agents ( a similar letter to this will be written to the CIA). Your answer will be greatly appreciated . 1~H SQ
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