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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.
“Bender”13 pages
I DIRECTOR, FBI 12/19/58 SAC, PHOENIX (62-667) ALBERT K. BENDER MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING (Nationalities Intelligence) Re Bureau letter 12/16/58. On 12/19/58, CLAUDE HAROLD MARCK, JR., 7834 No. Loma Land Drive, Scottsdale, Arizona, stated to SAs GEORGE HOLLINGSWORTH and WILLIAM M. DREW that he had a hobby of gathering il'iformation concernipg flying saucers and also gathering information coneerni.ng mysteries of the sea. He stated that any literature written he obtains in order to pursue this hobby. He referred agents to books written by Major DONALD E . .KEYHOE entitled "Flying Saucers from Outer Space" and a book entitled "Flying Saucers Conspiracy . " Botn of these books were published by Henry Holt Company, 383 Madison, New York, 17, New York. Major KRYHOE is a retired Major of the U.S. Marine Corps. Concerru.ng the "Bender Affairh, he· referred agents to the book entitled "They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers ", written by GRAY BARKER and published by University Books Publisher, April, 1956, third printing June, 1956. According to MARCK, GRff BARKER resides at Clarksberg, West Virginia, P.O. Box 2228 and is a person with whom MARCK corresponds concerning flying saucers as BARKER ia alleged to have a civilian investigative agency handling 11ivest1gat1ons concerning flying saucers. MARCK related that he has corresponded with various harbor masters and the U. s. Navy relative to the "dreadful underground menace which relates to the disappearance of crew and passengers of various ships found floundering 1n the open seas out of control." He stated that BARKER bas also shown interest in this subject matter, however., was unable to :furnish aey rurther amplifying details. The "Bender Affair" is related in the book published by BARKER. I ;;i - Bureau ( AM) • 1 - Phoenix ,,..,.,f, .- : •. .) ~~~ ,'(~-':".,J /~ :, ¥ .. A(JtJ 1/ oof' . r · 1 ~ I;;.- 1 3 'l 9V. - 21'3
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