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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.
“FBI file”21 pages
• •... .,1.._ -,-~ , ~ - ..,. ."" _.,.. -"'-- 1 - Mr. Wacka I §:} t, :,. -/3 ? 9 ;/-~ April 21, 1960 ~ HI~~.. ).\\,Si ll'r. Joseph F. rry 3079 Ed11JtJrd Stre• Grand Blanc, Michigan Dt1ar Ju. Perry: I am in receipt o;/ your lettt1r dated April 13, 1960, and I wanted you to know that I have taken the liberty of furnishing the Department o/ th4 Air Poree wt th a copy oJ your letter so that agency~could reply to you concerning the return o/ the photographs you furnished to Special Agents of thts Bureau. As you have been previously advised, these photographs uihen received Jrom you were immediately furnished to the Office oJ Special Investigations, Department of the Air Force, Selfr.idge Air Force Base, Jlount Clemens, lllchigan. It is suggested that you direct further inquiries in this 1111Jtter to the Department of the Air Force. Sincerely yours, MAILED 5 APR211960 John Edgar Hoover ~COMM-FBI Director ~-. ,JJ;TJfJpher wt th a h obby of tak j ng pictures W.C.Sull!van_ of the~ (J~ on 3-5-6-0 '·advised Detroit OJ/ice that two of in~~:·mRoom -- } his pi •rH'S show;tjl foreign object which he believed to Gandy l M~ Ls; AP1112E7NWO
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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.