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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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OPTIONAL fOfitM HO, I 0 ..,
UNITED STATES •✓ERNMENT
Memorandum
TO Director, FBI DATE: April 12, 1960
SAC, Detroit (65-2677)
S("\ r L
SUBJ ECT: UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT
JOSEPH1PERRY, GRAND BLANC, MICHIGAN -
COMPLAINANT
MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING
(NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE)
Re Bureau letter to Office of Special Investiga
tions, Air Force, dated April 6, 1960, and Detroit airtel
to Bureau, dated 4/11/60.
On April 12, 1960, JOSEPH PERRY, 3079 Edwards
Street, Grand Blanc, Michigan, was personally contactea
at his home by SA ll'AYIDND E. MOOMEY and SA MARTIN A.
MC NERNEY.
He was advised that his letter to President
EISENHOWER dated March 21, 1959, had been referred to the
FBI by the Department of Justice and that the FBI was
acknowledging receipt of that letter.
Mr. PERRY was advised that the contents of his
letter had been carefully noted and that for his informa
tion the photographs he had voluntarily turned over to the
FBI had been immediately furnished to the Office of Special
Investigations, Department of the Air Force, Selfridge Air
Force Base, Mt. Clemens, Michigan; further, that the
Department of the Air Force had been furnished a copy of
his letter to the President.
Mr. PERRYvas advised that the FBI was taking no tL
investigative action in this matter and he said he was (
fully aware of the Bureau's policies in matters of this
nature.
Mr. PERRY expressed his appreciation for the
I cooperation of the mI.
Bureau
1 - Detroit
MAM:hs 14 APR 14 1960
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Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 290 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.