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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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7854- North Leu. I.an.cl Drin
Seott1dale, Arisona
De1eJ1ber 7, 1958
FEDERAL BURFAU OF I~TIGATION
Waahiagt••• D. C.
Dear Sirt
I aa extreaely interested i• the "Bender Affair," ••cl I will
be •••t grateful if yeu eoulci help elear up the ayatery 1• this
affair. The re•••• I aa writi•c y~ ii beoauae I h.a..-e leantea.
reeently that a reaearoher ef thel..f'lyi:nc aauoeZSaystery sa14. the
FBI is in.TolTed b. this affair. - -
A oiTiliu in.Teatigati•g age••Y waa fe!'lled i~ B..ri•cepert,
C_gu.., in.~52, te leek i•t• the flyi:ac aaueer •Y..J,tery by .
Albert IV-" Bender. He called the orpnisatio• Tl;e"'"Iateru.tie:nal
Flyin.g Saueer Bureau. A:ad, durin, hi• stutly of the saucer ayatery
Bender ran aor••• a..ething iaporta».t. Thia interaati•• was
eTide•tly the aolution te the ayatery fer 1• 195~ Be•der state•
bluntly, "I knew what the 1auoer1 are." Then, "three ae• i• blaok
auita" sileneed hia. E.e11. today Bender will aot disouaa the ....tter
of hia "huah-up" with a:ayou. HeweTer, I ha.Te lear•etl tha.t the
aeoret •f the aauoers lie• the "dreadf'ul un.derp-ou.d aenace" that
ii threateni111; the werlci. And, I aa alae extre.ely interested. ill.
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I ha.Te aoae Tery iaportant infor:aatio:a coneerni•c thia
"dreadful undergroUJla aenaoe" that I weult like to diaouaa with
Bender Tery auoh. Fer the story eoneerning this "aeu..oe" ia
certainly a "helliah Horror" one, whioh reTeala & f&nt&itio
situation, 10 fantaatio, th.at it woult be hardly eo•oei-.able by
the publio. Yea indeed, I would appreeiate it ..-ery auoh if you
eoult help ae ,et in toueh with Bender.
I haTe also been getting infond.t icl:n. reprcling "certain"
ship tra,ea.ie■ that haTe oceurrea o• the high aeaa for a Tery
long tiae, and "certain" aircraft ac1ideata ant disappoara:acea.
Fer the1e tragedies reTeal eTiienoe that gin,a proof that 1ueh
a "ae:naee" really "exiata."
I eertai n.ly will be
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