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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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• • In Reply, Please Refer to Fik No. UNITED STATES DEPARTME NT OF JUSTICE • FEDERAL BUREAU OF I NVESTIGATION Detroit, Michigan May 20, 1960 Unidentified Plying Object; Josepn Perry. Grand Blanc, Michigan - Complainant At 3:58 p . m. on May 20, 1960, Jerry Chiappetta, who advised that he was on the City 'Dealt for the "Detroit Ti.mean at Detroit. Michitan, telephoned the Flint, Michigan, Resident Agency and advised that be bad just received a telephone call from Dave Downey, who resides in Wa~e County, Michigan . Downey reportedly advised the "Detroit Times" that he is the District Director of the Aerial Phenomenon Investiga tion Society. Downey stated that Joseph Perry, of Grand Blanc, Michigan, received a slide from Selfridge Air Force Base, Mt. Clemens, Michigan, on Yay 3, 1960. This slide is tho property of Joe Perry, of Grand Blanc, and Perry had claimed this slide contained a photograph of the moon and that it showed what appeared to be a flying object somewhere in the vicinity of the moon . Downey said when tho Air Force returned the photograph, they gave Perry a letter explaining that what appears to be a flying object in this slide is actually a part of the negative which was not properly developed. Downey reportedly told the "Detroit Times" that be does not believe this story as he knows that Joe Perry is very meticulous when he develops pictures; therefore, he feels the slide actually does contain a picture of a flying object and that he intends to obtain this slide and forward it to tho Eastman Kodak Company for further analysis. This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of any kind . It is tho property of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and is a loan to your agency; it and/or its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.
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