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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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• •UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION In Reply, Please Refer w File No. Denver, Colo~ado April 26, 1960 Re: UHIDDTD'll1'> PLYING OBJECTS, INVBSTIOATIVE SOC J;ETY; GltORQJ W. VAN TASSEL On ~r1117, 1960, a lecture waa given by GBORO:& W. VAN TASSEL at Ptdppa Auditorium~ City Park, Denver., Colorado~ which waa adveniaed to be a lecture, movie t'ilm, and diacw.•1on ot un1dent1t1ed flying objects. The audience waa compriaed ot a majority; ot older individuals and alao a maJor1ty ot the audience wu tamale . T'aere were rew young people, altho\igh aome tamily groups. The program we.a aponaored by the Denver Unidenti fied Flying Objects Investigative Soe1et1es, one ot which meets monthly at tne Jet.reraon County &Ink, Lakewood, Colorado, w.no•e execut1ve:.:.,,,0tt1cer wu the Maater or Ceremonies. The program conaiated ot a u5 minute mov1e which included $everal ahota or th1ngs purported to be tly1ng saucers, and then· a number or 1.ntervieA with pt1ople f'rom all walks or lif'e regarding a1ghtui&s :th ey had made of su c11. un1dent11"1ed fly:,ng objects. Arte~ tlle...l1l0v1e GEORGE \i . VAN TASSEL gave a lecture which was more or a rel:Lgloua- economice ltcture ratner than one or untdent1f.ied !'lying objects. VAN i'JSSBL ,stated that he had been in t he "flying game" tor over 30 yeara and currently aper.ates a private Civil Ae~onaut1c& Author.~ty approved :a1~t1eld in California. He said he hu per.aonall.y observed a good many e1ght1nga and hao talked to hundred& of people who have also seen tly1ng sau.cer8. Ue said that be has also been visited by the ~ople from outer epace and has taken up the cause or brlhging the tacts or theee people to t he :American people. He aa1d 1t 1a a crusade w.h.1:ch he has undertaken becsuae he 1s more or less retired, hia family is grown and gone from home, and he reels he migllt be doing aome good by this ,work. PROPERTY OP FBI: - Thia memorandum 1• loaned to you by the BBI. and neither it nor its content• are to be diatr"lbuted outa1de the agency to which loaned.
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