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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.

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• DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FOf\.
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR P:ORCE
WASHINGTON 25. D . C
.Received from
24-185-483 2 Z SEP t958
SEP22 1958
Honorable J . Edgar Hoover OSI .. PHE
Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
United States Department of Justice
Washington 25, D. C.
RE : Unidentif~ying Object,
Torrington, Conn.,
5 December 1957
Dear Sir :
Inclosed is a copy of a letter from a Delma.ine H. Oveson, who
identifies himself as Director of Operations, E:J..ectronics Service
Unit 4, Roseau, Minnesota. This letter requ st infonnation concern-
ing the reported sighting of d.al Object on or about
5 Dec~ber 1957 at Torrington,
This letter was furnished the Office of Special Investigations
~ by the Ground Observer Corps (GOC) Coordinator for the St ate of
--.i Connecticut. That individual has advised that an a lleged sighting
of 13.n unidentifi ed flying object near Torrington, Connecticut, was
reported on or about 5 December 1957, but that neither he nor the
addressee have any knowledge of the author of the inclosed letter.
~ _, In.fomation has been received from the u. s. Army, and Air Force
I Postal Service that no military units are located at Roseau,Minneqota.
Therefore, this matter is being referred to your Bureau for any action eyou deem appropriate.
r"/ Advice if any infonnation of interest to the Air Force is
l1.J J, developed b;y your Bureau in this matter will be appreciated.
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