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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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• 2842 . 57th St. Seattle 7, Washingto October 10, 1960 . Personnel Section, Federal Bureau of Investigation, u. s. Dep 1 t of Justice, 9th & ?ennaylvania, Washington, n. c. Gentlement There is a gentleman, or caused to be published, a a 11 Dr." Stranges , ,:i\o has publi shed, book dealing witV1Flying Saucers 11 • Sincerely, 1 ~ ,_, / 0 ,_,, 0-~.!'< "crAlfred Zig er. In public and in private the man infers that he is a former member of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. t~ ;J1is true? UJ t}S t7 ' Thie "Dr . ~tranges ( Doetor of What? -- hae never been explained.)i s ry careful of hie wording, in speech and in writing, inferri g many things, yet doing ao in a manner that will allow him to deny them, if necessary. He quite skilfully avoids answering directly to direct questions. Al l of t his ie done in a manner indicating that he ie rather careless of the truth, yet the sort of thing that is pretty hard to pin down. "Dr . 11 Stranges has coupled hie "Flying Saucers " with a religious theme in such a manne r that he is invited to occupy the pu l pit in churches around the land. It is my pe rsonal opinion that the man i s using the churches f or his private g~in. (Tax free, no doubt.) I am not aware that he has broken the law in any res pect, but from a moral stand point, he is, I feel, worse than a law breaker. He will be coming again to my church in a fe'IV v•eeks, and on the occasion of his other visit t o ld several quite patent lies. If t his man is either by law, or morally, a fraud I am quite opposed to his a ppearance in my church. I would appreciate kno~ing if he is, in t ruth, a former member of your organization. \ M r . M •G11 r e Mr. Ro!;en _____ Mr. T an1m ··- Mr. 'f, , i:, r I Mr. W.C.Sulli;;;; j Tele. Room _ _ Mr. Ingram......._ Miss Gandy__ 33
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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.