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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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------- FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIOfl FBI ALBUQ UEE: • • • U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSrlCE COMMUNICATIONS SECTION y1 !M MST . URGENT 4 -'2?·64 RGL· APR 2 5 1964 /TO DIRECTOR, FBI • TELETYPE ' ·· FROM SAC , ALBUQUERQUE 62-NEW 1,1 , tt j I · - OUR, SIXTYFOUR \ -:= I'!'<'I". 1,,;0111 - UNI DENTI FI ED FLYING OBJECT, SOCORRO, N.M. APR T .INFORMATION CONCERNING. M ,i ll,HO~~ - - • M~~~ = INFORMATION RECEIVED APR TWENTY FOUR AND TWENTY FIVE, FROM _.... ·-·-- LONNIE ZAMORA , CONSIDERED SOBER, -DEPENDABLE, MATURE, NOT OF ~ FANTASY, OFFICER OF POLICE DEPARTMENT SOCORRO, N.M. THAT AT ABOUT • FIVE FIFTY PM MST , WHILE IN SOUTH AREA OF SOCORRO NOTED FLAME I N SKY TO SOUTHWEST , WHICH HE DECIDED TO CHECK OUT IN BELIEF DYNAM ITE / SHACK IN AREA HAD BLOWN UP. WHILE TRAVELING IN I SOLATED AREA APPROXMATELY ONE MILE SOUTH AREA OF SOCORRO , NOTED IN DEPRESSION ABOUT EIGHT HUNDRED FEET AWAY WHITISH OBJECT WH ICH, UPON GLANCING AT SAME, APPEARED ) TO BE OVERTURNED AUTOMOBILE. TWO PERSONS IN APPARENT WHITE COVERALLS WERE ADJACENT TO OBJECT. THEN TRAVELED OVER ROUGH ROAD TO SPOT ABOUT ONE HUNDRED \. THREE FEET FROM OBJECT AND ABOUT TWENTY - o TWLNTY FIVE FEET HIGHER . NO PERSONS VISIBLE. ~EARD TWO OR THREE LOUD THUMPS, LESS THAN I A SECOND APART, THEN WI TH A ROAR AND BLUISH AND ORANGE FLAMES , OBJECT SLOWLY VERTICALLY ROSE TO ABOUT CAR HEIGHT, THEN NOISE AND FLAME STOPPED AND OBJECT TOOK OFF AT HI GH SPEED I N STRAI ~HT LINE AND ALMOST WQR OZONTALLY TO DISAPPEAR OVER DI STANT MOU NTAI N. ZA '· QRA , GREATLY FRIGHTENED,. RAD IOED HIS OBSERVA: IONS AND NMSP S£rlGEANT AND. SOCORRO COUNTY UNDERSHERIFF, QU I CKLY ON SCENE , NOTED FOUR SMALL IRREGULARLY SHAPED SMOULDERING AREAS AND FOUR REGULAR DEPRESSED AREAS END PAGE ONE ~ ~ "d_///) ·~~' 'Jr;~.) }'j~~~-
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