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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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April 6, 1960
Office of Spectal Investigations
Air Force
Attention: Chief, Counter Intelltgenoe
Dt1Jiston
John Edgar Hoovt1r, Director
UNIDENTIFIED PLYING OBJECT
JOSEPH PERBT, GRAND BLANC,
llICHIOAN - C0JIPLAINANT
IIISCEUANEOUS - INFORJIA.TIOJI CONCERNING
( NATIONALITIES INJ'ELLIGE.M'JE)
Reference is made to ihts Bureau's memorandum
dated Abrch 9, 1960, at Detroit, Michigan, captioned as
above, a copy of which has been furnished your agency.
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.., By letter dated Mlrch 21, 1960, Hr. Richard
Hall, ~ecretary of the llattonal Investigations Co1ll1ltittee
on A•z:tal Phenomena, 1536 Connecticut Avenue., N. fl.,
Washington, D. c., referred this Bureau to an article 1;Jappearing in the "Detroit Times, " issu.e of Yi:zrch 9, 196o
. a copy of which is enclosed, and requested to be advised
•whether there had been any change In our pol t cg wt th
,respect to unidenttfted flying objects; whether this
Bureau gathered evidence of untdentlfled flying objects for the
Department of the Air Force; and whether the photagraph
described tn the article had been analyzed at FBI
laboratories or for FBI purposes. Th.ta Bureau's letter
to the afore-m,enttoned organization of September 26, 19581
had pointed out that we do not investigate incidents )
involving untdentlfted flying objec~ but furnished data
received concerning them to ,h. ,]J.;part11Jent of the Air Force.+• ,., }
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dated 1.brch 25, 1960, that th•r~ has been no change tn
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Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 290 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.