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FBI file 62-HQ-83894, section 9

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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.

  • p. 198 …linked with the afore mentioned ufos?. If not, are the files on these cases open to…
  • p. 204 …He instructed me to advise you that the confidential nature of our files will preclude compl…
  • p. 206 …Naval Base, Norfol k, Virginia, 6/15/60, requesting i-&formatio_n concerning UFOs . That agency…
  • p. 207 …CASTLES that files in her possession reflect that LARRY WILLIAM BRYANT, who was born, 2/23…
  • p. 239 …1,1/~ o ;_; Bureau files reveal an inquiry from Bryant to the Director in F ebruary…
  • p. 241 …That Bryant's manuscript on UFO be returned to the Department of Defense· by our liaison…
  • p. 247 …files." Mr. Castles volunteered the followings "If the FBI has any such data f.on UFO…
  • p. 252 …The IIOUFO has been inves ti gating UFO and flying saucer sightings since August 1958 . We…
• •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
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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~
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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
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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:
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