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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. 26 ---- ---- TO Z RECTOR, FBI DATE: January 30 , 1958 a 'LWc,KANSAS CITY (62-7386) SUBJECT~.. BERT…
  • p. 74 _ • • ..._... ' l - Belmont 1 - Donahoe SAC, fhoenix 1 - f11Effber 16 • 19~ Director, FBI ~ (f;/ REC- 37 & 2…
  • p. 75 …The only identifiable data in our files on Bender is a letter he wrote on 10…
  • p. 95 …ce emoran um • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Director, FBI DATE: May· 5, 1959 SAC, Seattle (62- 1729…
  • p. 108 …He furnished both of those pictures to the FBI .
  • p. 130 …PERSONS The Assistant to the President Bureau files reflect SAC, Detroit, 3/9/IO, advised of…
  • p. 148 • •. f UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION fo Reply, Please Refer to File…
  • p. 152 • •UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION In Reply, Please Refer w File No…
  • p. 164 …0 12-13- 56) I I I I I FBI I I Date: 5/ 20/ 60…
  • p. 175 …Bureau files contain nothing identifiable with Mr. Zigler. On the basis of information furnished by him…
  • p. 179 …DIR.ECTOR, FBI (62-83894) DATE: 10/ 1+/61 PROM~ SAC, CINCINNATI (100-11671) ,,,f~ vilian…
  • p. 204 …He instructed me to advise you that the confidential nature of our files will preclude compl…
  • p. 206 …directed to the FBI Office, Norfolk, Virginia. ✓ .30 There is also in file a copy of…
  • p. 207 …CASTLES that files in her possession reflect that LARRY WILLIAM BRYANT, who was born, 2/23…
  • p. 209 …SAC, Norfolk ~ C'") t.rFrom: ~ctor, FBI ~ "'tt ....,7 ? "-, Ct:) $ ~LARRY \\·. ~YANT NEWPORT NEWS, YlB~ ., ;: ~ -1…
  • p. 239 …the files. '" Bryant also states that SA Castles volunteered the following: "If the FBI has any…
  • p. 241 …be made a matter of record in FBI files. Bryant was subsequently advised by in-absence…
  • p. 247 …memorandum for the files." Mr. Castles volunteered the followings "If the FBI has any such data…
  • p. 250 …It bas been the FBI's long-standing policy not to conduct invea.tigatlons regarding information…
  • p. 252 …According to the AP , it was stated that the FBI was investi gating this sighting . Would…
  • p. 259 …assistance to you, the files of the FBI must be malntained as ccrfJii ■IIIJ a •ordance…
they had been engaged in producing or testi.ng a saucer-•like craft during the 1952 sighting crisis. I never got
an answer; instead the post G-2, Col. Frank O. Adams,
summoned me to hia office and instructed me to explain
the motives £or my inquiry.
After assuring Col. Adams that I had not intended to
undermine local security measures, but had merely posed
an honest question, he recommended I be more prudent in
the future. Here, we mustn't reproach Col. Adams too
severely, because his job was to abide by the military
intelligence axiom of "never underestimate a potential
enem.y.n This axiom. no doubt inspired the following
Eustis pol~cy, a po-licy which was probably the basis for
Col. Adams's investigation:
"A great part of the information sought by
people who do not have the best interests of
the United States at heart. is obtained from unclassi
fied sources through apparently innocent requests.
Any unusual request for information concerning the
installation, our personnel, or other data, should
be brought to the attention of the Assistant Chief
of Staff, G-2." J
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You may see nqw that the sources as well as the fruits
of my UFO research are subject to scrutiny by all interested
authorities. This fact became even clearer several months
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