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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.
“Office of Special Investigations”14 pages
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m>ERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGAT109
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FBI ALBUQUEE ~COMMUNICATIONS SECTION.
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~ NIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT r SOCORRO , N. M. APR T;:TY7 SIXTYF0UR m _·--
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INFORMATION RECEIVED APR TWENTY FOUR AND TWENTY FI VE , FROM ----· -
LONN~~ORA , CONSIDERED SOBER , DEPENDABLE , MATURE , NOT OF _ «~
FANTASY , OFFICER OF POL I CE DEPARTMENT SOCORRO , ~ THAT AT ABOUT fa:.~ ~
FIVE FIFTY PM MST , WH I LE IN SOUTH AREA OF SOCORRO NOTED FLAME IN 4f1lfF
SKY TO SOUTHWEST , WHICH HE DECIDED TO CHECK OUT IN 3ELIEF DYNAM I~~L~
SHACK IN AREA HAD BLOWN UP . "1J
WHILE TRAVEL I NG I N ISOLATED AREA APPROXMATELY ONE MILE ~
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SOUTH AREA OF SOCORRO , NOTED IN DEPRESSION ABOUT EIBHT ..l:{t.JNDRED ~
FEET AWAY WHITISH OBJECT WHICH , UPON GLANCING AT SAME , . ~~PEARED )Pf~
TO BE OVERTURNED AUTOMOBI LE . TWO PERSONS IN APPARENT WHITE
COVERALLS WERE ADJACENT TO OBJECT . -I ~ THEN TRAVELED OVER ROUGH ROAD TO SPOT ABOUT ONE HUNDRED
THREE FEET FROM OBJECT AND ABOUT TWENTY TO TWENTY FIVE FEET HIGHER .
~O PERSONS VI SIBLE. HEARD TWO OR THREE LOUD THUMPS , LESS THAN
A SECOND APART , THEN WITH A ROAR AND BLUISH AND 9RANGE FLAMES ,
013.fICT SLOWLY VERTICALLY ROSE TO _fli\~ CAR HE I GHJ , THE)J NOJ.SE . .A~D 7J_
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FLAME STOPPED AND OBJECT TOOK OFF AT HIGH SPEED IN STRA I GH.I.J..1 NF AND
ALMOST HOROZONTALLY TO DISAPPEAR OVER DISTANT MOUNTA1'JAPR 30 1964
ZAMORA , GREATLY FRI GHTENED , RADIOED HIS OBSERVATIOWS "AND -
NMSP SERGEANT AND SOCORRO COUNTY UNDERSHER I FF , QUICKLY ON SCENE,~/ ~
NOTED FOUR SMALL IRREGULARLY SHAPED SMOULDERING AREAS AND FOUR
REGULAR DEPRESSED AREAS APPROXIMATELY SIXTEEN BY SIX INCHES IN
END PAGE ONE MR. MOHR FOR THE DIRECTOR
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