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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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. .. • • PAGE TWO BLUE WHITE FLAME, WHICH APPEARED TO COME FROM PORT HOLES. HE WATCHED SCENE FOR ABOUT ONE MINUTE, WHEN FLAME WENT OUT. OBJECT NOT NOTED TO MOVE, VAS .SILENT AT ALL TIMES, ORLANDO ~T INTO HOUSE, TOLD FATHER, WHO LAUGHED AT HIM. NEW MORNING HE VISISTED SIT£., SAV SMOLDERING AREA. LATER IN DAY SAW A STATE POLICE OFFICER AND RELATED INCIDENT TO HIM. CAPTAIN VIGIL CONTINUED THAT HE CHECKED SITE AT SEVEN THIRTY PM FOUR TWENTYSIX LAST, NOTED SCORCHED CIRCULAR AREA ABOUT THIRTY TO FORTY FEET IN DIAMETER. HE NOTED ONE RECTANGULAR, V SHAPED INDENTATION IN GROYND, EIGHT BY TWELVE INCHES, AND ABOUT THREE TO FOUR INCHES DEEP. A FELLOW OFFICER, WHO WAS THERE EARLIER, POINTED TO PLACES8 OF THREE MORE INDENTATIONS, INDICATING THE INDENTATIONS VERE RECTANGULAR. CAPTAIN VIGIL FURTHER STATED HE tsAW SEVERAL SMOOTH CIRCULAR PRINTS ON GROUND ABOUT THREE AND ONE HALF INCHES IN DIAMETER AT SITE. NO OTHER WITNESSES KNOWN TO HAVE OBSERVED THE OBJECT. PROPER MILITARY AUTHORITIES AT KERTLAND AFB, ALBUQUERQUE END PAGE TWO
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