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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. 228 …CONTROL , DISARMAMENT AGENCY IN SOUTHWEST STATES INCLUDING NEW MEXICO . NOT KNOWN IF A30VE INCIDENT RELATES TO…
  • p. 231 …CONTROL, DISARMAMENT AGENGY IN SOUTHWEST STATES INCLUDING NEW MEXICO. NOT , r KNOWN IF ABOVE INCIDENT RELATES…
  • p. 233 …J F/),v,:r· SAC , ALBUQUERQUE (62-1028) (P) RE: ~ IDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT , SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO…
  • p. 235 …It may be noted that New Mexico State Police Sergeant M. s. CHAVEZ and Socorro County…
  • p. 237 …UNIDENTIFIED FLYI:00 OBJECT ____,!~/.......,, ---"':"-----~= SOCORRO , NEW MEXICO APRIL 24 , 1964 MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CO:oc!ERNiro (NATIONALITIES…
  • p. 250 …The individual interviewed was a police officer of the Socorro, New Tolaon -- Mexico, Police Department. No…
  • p. 261 …Bu.files reflect that an unidentified flying object was sighted near Socorro, New Mexico, on April…
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which supposedly do not warrant such attention - - objects which, officially,
are identifiable for the most part as natural aerial phenomena or 1iome
other familiar, harmless manifestation.
How can the over-all review-clearance system be manipulated by the
UFO censors? Take as an authoritative answer the following excerpt
£ran a letter written to me by a local US.AF official:
11 ••• Chapter 4, Section B, paragraph 2a(7), of Air
Force Manual 190-4, 6 June 196o, says in part: 'When the
..• manuscript concerns military subjects.,national, or
foreign affairs, it will be submitted to SAF-OI to review
for accuracy, propriety .. • • and to obtain final clearance
frau the Department of Defense . This policy applies to Air
Force active duty personnel, retired personnel, civilian
emplcyees, and members of the civilian components.' SAF-OI
is the symbol for the Office of Information, Secretary of
the Air Force.
"Another directive, Air Force Regulation 200-2, governs
activities as they relate to Unidentified Flying Objects.
This regulation says only that base Information Officer s
may examine manuscripts which are subnitted to them to be
sure they are factual and accurate. The sam~ groups of
persons as indicated above, according to this regulation,
may not use Air Force material on Unidentified Flying
Objects tor their writings." 5
~te a challenge, isn ' t it? But as long as you and I are willing
to meet it, there is still the hope that the censors will admit defeat
and capitulate. You may be asking yourself, "If the censors do exist,
then why is Bryant allowed to continue publishing his manuscripts?"
That has been my question, too, and the only solution I can offer is
that :treedan of infonnation has yet to perish entirely in America.
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