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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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I • I F'D-36 (Rev . 0 12-13- 56) I I I I I FBI I I Date: 5/ 20/ 60 I I I Transmit the following in _______________________....1 ( Type in plain text or code) 1 I Via AIRTEL AIRMAIL : (Priority or Method of Mailing) I - ------------ - ----------------------------1\~- - - L------- TO : Director, FBI ~~ FROM: SAC, Detroit (65-2677) ~ UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT; JOSEPH PERRY, GRAND BLANC, MICHIGAN - COMPLAINANT (NAT~ ALITIES INTELLIGENCE) r I J~ .._~)\ ReBulet to Office of Special 4/21/ 60. Enclosed herewith are 5 copies of a letterhead memo explaining a telephone call from the "Detroit Times" at Detroit, Mich. , to the Flint , Mich., Resident Agency on 5/ 20/ 60. It is noted that the Flint RA immediately advised Detroit upon r eceipt of this call from Reporter JERRY CHIAPPETTA of the "Detroit Times". The ASAC in turn immediately contacted JERRY CHIAPPETTA to determine the extent of his inquiry o f our RA and it was determined he had merely had a call from DAVE DOWNEY, referred to in letterhead memo, and DOWNEY, by inference, had stated it was his understanding that the FBI Agents in Flint had previously "snatched" the 2 photos from JOSEPH PERRY. CHIAPPETTA stated he knew that the FBI did not operate that way and inasmuch as he was doing a research on his morgue files he wanted to clarify this information. CHIAPPETTA's attention was directed to a previous contact by the Detroit Of fice with the "Detroit Time s" at the time the incident occurred and it was reiterated to this Reporte r that the FBI did not investigate this case and doe s not investigat7 ! f - REC- 20 . ill y , l?t ' 3 - Bureau (Encls. - 5) - • = ,._;r - Detroit AGENCY OS/ • ~ MAY 21 196U MAM : sva REQ. REC'D ~..,_n* \ RTE d(4) ~~~ F~~~~- .S- ~ -:~~ • Bl F ~"t\ ~ ., /1 Sent -- -~p; rove&: 6ff • -- - ~ 6 4 mAY ;1119 cial Agent in Charge ~
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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.