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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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-• OPTIONAL POIM NO. 10 • UN;;;;-p•STATES VERNMENT_' ( •Memorandum ~ To : DIR.ECTOR, FBI (62-83894) DATE: 10/ 1+/61 PROM~ SAC, CINCINNATI (100-11671) ,,,f~ vilian Research, Interplane~ar~ ?cT: ' Flying Objects, Leonard H.....~tringfield, Director, Cincinnati, Ohio u ( ..., r-- A MISCEfiLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING T ,,L_I~- \;;°fe\J ~ --1-1 llS:hQ e. ;_ /'} ~ ///I/ J ,-/ V ,.~' ) For the information of the Bureau, there is a letterhead memorandum captioned as ~~e rela tive to information received from LEONARD JI. STRINGFIELD on September 25, 1961, and on October 2, 1961, by SA GEORGE J. MC QUAID. One copy of letterhead memorandum has been disseminated locally to OSI, Cincinnati, Ohio. c::> r-ly,, "· ,.. rS_.;__:_....~-t-,-----"-----,..... For completion of the Bureau's file concerning matters relating to LEONARD H. STRINGFIELD, the following is set forth: A newspaper article captioned Death and Funerals, L.R. '"J'M , S'lffiINGFIELD; decorated war hero", appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer, a newspaper of general circulation in the t reater Cincinnati, Ohio, area, dated June 15, 1960, reflects that LEONARD R. 11 PAT" STRINGFIELD, a much decorated veteran of World war I, and one of the chapter members of Chapter 1 of the disabled American Veterans in Cincinnati, died at his home, 2495 Har~ison Avenue, at age 62. This article further reflects that one of his sons, LEONARD H. STRINGFIELD, Mariemont, is known nationally for his researches into the study of unidentified flying objects, and holds views on the subject which have attracted the attention of the Federal Government. The article identified Mr. C ~\ 2 - Bureau (Enc. 5) ~- I - Cint innati ·~ --
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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.