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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.

• a - Mr• Nease
Belmont
• · - Mr.l • Mr. Donahoe
l
ajor Donald E. Keyhoe, Director
Nation l Inveetigatlons Conmitt e
on Aerial Phenomena
1536 Connecticut Avenue
aahington 6• o. c.
Dea~ Sirs
In respon to your letter of September 22, 1900,
th• following req1.tested inform tlon le fw:nished:
Tho federal Bureau of Inv atigation dos
not investigate sightings of unld ntlfied flying
objects. When the details of such a gight1ng
are reported to~ presentativ I of this Bur u,
the information is forwarded to th Air Force.
Repro ontctives of th1& Bur~au do not isGue
lnatruct1ons to 1nd1v1du 1 who h ve ,;1ghtod un
identified flying objocts th t thy should not
t lk bout such ightlngs.
It lG note function of this Bureau to ko
character inveetlgations of individuals who ha~e
witn aaed unidentified flying objects.
Thls Bureau ~oaa not have information on
unidentified flying objects which can be re
leased. This does not imply that this Bureau
has information cone rnlng unidentified flying
objects which cannot bo r leased.
It 1s understood that JANAP 1~6 i• • Depa~tm nt
of Defense document nd 1 not. aG such, pplicable
to the operations of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Foa&ible communication Vil.th extraterrestrial '
vehicles from another pl not, should th unidentifi d
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(6) "Donald E. Keyhoe. Misc·ellaneous .. Information
Concerning (Nationalities Intelligence):• dated
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