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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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•ago when I was finishing the groundwork for my- recently published article, 11 A Hard Look at UFO News Management, " 4 which was cleared by the Defense Department on October 10, 1963. Here is how it began. On July 23, 1963, I wrote to the ~eri!! of Sussex County, Va., requesting any UFO sighting data that he might possess. While on duty at Fort Eustis the af'ternoon , of September 17, I received a 10-minute visit rrom local FBI agent John S. Castles. Not only did Mr. Castles inquire about the Sussex \ . letter, but also about a similar letter I sent on August 8, 1963, to the Conmander of the Norfolk (Va.) Naval Base. Upon furnishing Mr. Castles the infomation he desired on my Civil Service position ·and r,ry UFO writings, I asked if it were customary for the FBI to interrogate anybody 11ho expresses an interest in UFO•s. He said no, that since his office was,- queried by the addressees of the two letters he 11as just seeking infonnation on 1which he could write a "memorandum for the files." Mr. Castles volunteered the followings "If the FBI has any such data f.on UFO sighting_y', it is probably of an intelligence nature and thus would be unavailable to the public and to private individuals." igain, the "authorities" have shown a serious, persuasive co~ern about the writings of a private citizen on objects • I
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