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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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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 l * 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 -5- r-
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