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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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• •of such reports. During my ensuing interrogation by two Army Counter-Intelligence Corps members at Fort Monroe, I became fully aware that UFO•s, or flying saucers , were being treated with grave respect by our military intelligence experts; so, I decided to reveal their official, behi nd-the scenes attitude to the public , doing so in a lengthy report issued in 1960. The report 1 had taken five months to make the rounds of the review-clearance mill, but. J s f inally i. cleared for publication in February 1960. Despite a subsequent admonition from the Civilian Personnel Officer at Fort Monroe to give up my campaign of seeking the truth about UFO secrecy, I have continued to amass evidence against the censors. And the censors still~ ~~....~'1, V persist in making themselves ,laiown; to me . It is certainly a vicious cycle of verbal pushing and pulling, with the victor of the conflict being not really mys.elf or the censors but you readers, who represent the general public .I * * The next episode concerna a draft newspaper "letter to the editor" that I wrote in the spring of 1959, and which I duly submitted to USCONARC for review and clearance. USCONARC declined to clear the manuscript, asserting, among other things, the fol1owing nonconcurrencea: -3- l ·'·
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