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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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FD-36 (Rev. 12-13-S6)
FBI
Date: 3/28/60
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TO )IR.:CT JR , FBI
FrloM: SAC , )8TROIT (65- 2677 )
UNID.i:I: TI FIZD FLYING J3JECT;
OS~?H ERRY , Grand Blanc , Michigan-
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Re Doairtel, 3/ 9/6~ and 1)ctel, 3 / 9/ 60 .
'\. An art i c l e appeared in the "Flint Journal " , Flint , ~:ich.,
~r\ dated 3/27/60 by 1epor te r ALLAN '1 . •J:::LH-:::LM. This article
app0ared on .Page 13 . The artic l e ref l ects an interview 1vith
rz~ay and in part states that P~RRY had received at leas t 50
otters and calls in regard to the photograph he had taken .
One letter was from Nat i onal Invest i gation Commi ttee on Aerial
Phenomenon . The art i cle contain s the followi ng quote f r om
. thi s letter , "From past experienc e with photographic evidence1
t ~ we consider it unlike l y t hat yo u will ever see your pic t ure
if;. >4.1.again . 11 PERRY had advise d the newspa per that a l l he knew was
·c . ~1o----,;:tha t the p icture was in Air Forc e hands . The FBI only says
:-- • 1 that it is in "proper '1ands 11 , accordinr to PERRY . The art icl e
~ ~ continued , 11 So last week P:SRRY wr ote to the Pr o sident tel l ing
. him he can I t find out ,.,here his slide is and asking assurance
::~ ~ that he wi l l got it back . " PERRY was quoted as saying , "The
~ ~- only way I will be satisfied if I 1
10n ' t ('!'et it back i s if the #t·· Government tolls me it is top secret . "
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!: b ~ The photograph referred to above wa s ~ a . 35 mm s l ide which
~ :x: o was furn i shed to Q-:!I , SAFB, by le t ter dated 3/9/60 .
OSI , Se l fridg e Air For c o 3ase , I-~t. Cl emens , Mich., advised of
the above . Addit i onal informat i on follows which ,~111 include
a copy of clipping . ~ I\
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1 - Detroit 15 MAR 29 1960'lLS/ mac
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