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This section of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's flying saucer file 62-HQ-83894 holds FBI correspondence from 1957 to 1966. It includes a November 1957 memo saying Air Force Intelligence found the post-Sputnik sightings nonauthentic, and a Havana report of a hat-shaped disc over Matahambre, Cuba. It also has inquiries into Robert T. Stone's Inter Continental Aerial Research Foundation, a Torrington, Connecticut sighting referral, and replies to members of the public. The replies say UFOs are not within FBI jurisdiction and refer writers to the Air Force.
From the source:Release of 2026-05-08 Incident: N/A, N/A. The FBI's 62-HQ-83894 case file includes investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports concerning Unidentified Flying Objects and flying discs documented between June 1947 and July 1968. The records include high-profile incident accounts, photographic evidence from sites like Oak Ridge, TN, and technical proposals regarding potential propulsion systems. Additional topics include convention programs, researcher accounts, and extensive media coverage from the period. This file is partially posted on FBI vault with more redactions and some pages missing. Included here is the complete case file with several newly declassified pages and only minor redactions.
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION In Reply, Please Refer to Detroit , Michigan File No. March 9 , 1960 Re: Unidentified Flying Object; Joseph Perry , Grand Blanc , Michigan - Compl ainant Mr . Joseph Ierry , 3079 Edwards Street , Grand Blanc , Michigan, was contacted at his request by Agents of this office on ~arch 5, 1960 . Hr . Perry advised that he operates a Pizza House at 3075 Edwards Street , Grand Blanc , and that he has been a professional photographer for thirty years . He explained that he has a hobby of taking photographs of the moon through a home- made telescope . At about 1:00 a . m. on February 21 , 1960, he took some photographs of the moon and after ~eveloping sa.me , he put them in his viewer and in one photograph he observed what appears to be a flying object somewhere between the end of his telescope and the surface of the moon . He said that when blown up , this object is flat on the bottom, is oval shaped , and appears to have a fluorescent glow around the entire object , and that it is apparently moving as it has a vapor trail running behind it . He has taken over one thousand pictures of the moon and has never soen anything resembling this object . Perry said that due to his thirty years ' experience in photogra,hy , he is sure that what appears on the picture is actually a flying object , and is not a malfunction of the camera , is not a blur on his telescope , and is not anything that appears on the photo because of the manner in which he deve loped the fi l m. Perry took about twenty pictures of the moon on February 21 , 1960, and after developing them, he observed that most of the pictures were under- exposed , so ho just cut off the two that appeared to be properly exposed and destroyed the rest . He furnished both of those pictures to the FBI .
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