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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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t • Office of Special Investigations Air Force that we do not gather evidence concerning untdenttfled flying objects for the Departmnt of the Air Force, although any lnJormatlon volunteered is, o;. course, accepted; and that the photograph •nttoned in the 1 'Detrott TITfll!s " article u,as not examined by the PBI Laboratory or anyon• else for FBI purposes. Mr. Hall r.oae ,turthJlr adPlsed that this Bureau furntshed two photographs obtained fron Joa•ph Perry to a representative of th6 Depart11lent of the Atr :Poree ;tor whatever action was deerud appropriate by that agency. On Jbrch Jl, 1960, the Depart,unt of Justice furnished this Bureau a letter dated lhrch 21, 1960, from Joseph P. Perry, directed to the Prttsident. This letter had been re/erred to the Department of Justice by the White House. A copy of this lett•r ts enclosed. Our Detroit Of/tee will contact Perry and adDlse htm that his letter directed to thll Prestdent lu:ls been r1/erred to this Bureau; that tJu; photographs in question were furnished to the Offtcs of Special Investigations, Depart-.ent o;/ the .A.tr Poree, Selfrtdgs Air Force Base, l/Ount Cleans, lllchtgan; and that a copy o/ his lstter to the President has been furnished to you. Enclosures - 2 NOTE FOR SAO, DETROIT: Enclosed ts copy of letter from Perry to the President. Assure that Perry is contacted immediately and advised that his letter to the President was referred to us by the Department of Justice which had received it from the White House and you are acknowledging receipt thereof. Point out to Perry that the contents of his letter have been carefully noted and for his information the photographs he voluntarily turned over to agents of your office were immediately furnished to the Office of Special Investigations, Department of the Air Force, Selfridge Air Force Base, Mount Clemens, Michigan. Also inform him that the Department of the Air Force has been - 2 -
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