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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…
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•(l), "The 'official censorship, ridicule
and silence' as stated are not true, nor is
the statement •conceal vital UFO data•.
stead it would be more correct to state that
the policy of the Department of Defense is
not to release UFO data not substantiated by
fact. '7
( 2} "Inference is made of ~_,i.sm in
efforts to obtain information about UFO when
in fact the control of such information follows
an established policy. The Department of
Defense must maintain such controls to insure
that data released is based on fact.~
(3) "Attempts to extract UFO data from
this headquarters ffiSCONARQ7 cannot be met.
Suggest contact be made with ... the U. s.
Air Force. Any matter received should be
considered privileged information and not for
release to the public.
(4) "The statements contained herein
are not an attempt at •censorship'. The Army
encourages its ... personnel to speak and
write, as long as they stick to the facts, do
not reveal classified infQrmation, and meet
standards of propriety." 2
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Shortly after I transferred from Fort Monroe to
j the u. S. Army Transportation S~hool at Fort Eustis, Va.,
I again pulled my end of our tug of war. I wanted to
squelch rumors that UFO•s were secret terrestrial weapons.
1 Pursuing this angle, I wrote privately to the Combat Develop
ment agency at Eustis on March 13, 1960, and asked whether
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