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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 009

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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.

  • p. 26 ---- ---- TO Z RECTOR, FBI DATE: January 30 , 1958 a 'LWc,KANSAS CITY (62-7386) SUBJECT~.. BERT…
  • p. 74 _ • • ..._... ' l - Belmont 1 - Donahoe SAC, fhoenix 1 - f11Effber 16 • 19~ Director, FBI ~ (f;/ REC- 37 & 2…
  • p. 75 …The only identifiable data in our files on Bender is a letter he wrote on 10…
  • p. 95 …ce emoran um • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Director, FBI DATE: May· 5, 1959 SAC, Seattle (62- 1729…
  • p. 108 …He furnished both of those pictures to the FBI .
  • p. 130 …PERSONS The Assistant to the President Bureau files reflect SAC, Detroit, 3/9/IO, advised of…
  • p. 148 • •. f UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION fo Reply, Please Refer to File…
  • p. 152 • •UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION In Reply, Please Refer w File No…
  • p. 164 …0 12-13- 56) I I I I I FBI I I Date: 5/ 20/ 60…
  • p. 175 …Bureau files contain nothing identifiable with Mr. Zigler. On the basis of information furnished by him…
  • p. 179 …DIR.ECTOR, FBI (62-83894) DATE: 10/ 1+/61 PROM~ SAC, CINCINNATI (100-11671) ,,,f~ vilian…
  • p. 204 …He instructed me to advise you that the confidential nature of our files will preclude compl…
  • p. 206 …directed to the FBI Office, Norfolk, Virginia. ✓ .30 There is also in file a copy of…
  • p. 207 …CASTLES that files in her possession reflect that LARRY WILLIAM BRYANT, who was born, 2/23…
  • p. 209 …SAC, Norfolk ~ C'") t.rFrom: ~ctor, FBI ~ "'tt ....,7 ? "-, Ct:) $ ~LARRY \\·. ~YANT NEWPORT NEWS, YlB~ ., ;: ~ -1…
  • p. 239 …the files. '" Bryant also states that SA Castles volunteered the following: "If the FBI has any…
  • p. 241 …be made a matter of record in FBI files. Bryant was subsequently advised by in-absence…
  • p. 247 …memorandum for the files." Mr. Castles volunteered the followings "If the FBI has any such data…
  • p. 250 …It bas been the FBI's long-standing policy not to conduct invea.tigatlons regarding information…
  • p. 252 …According to the AP , it was stated that the FBI was investi gating this sighting . Would…
  • p. 259 …assistance to you, the files of the FBI must be malntained as ccrfJii ■IIIJ a •ordance…
• •CI 100-11671
Stringfield as an Advertising Executive of the DuBois
Chemical Company, and further shows that his ~tudy of
reports on flying saucers, however, have convinced
him they are from other planets.
Additionally, a news article appeared in
the Cincinnati Post and Times Star, a daily newspaper
of general circulation in the Cincinnati, Ohio, area,
under date of June 4, 1960, page 5, captioned, ''Tell
Secrets on Saucers, Expert Says 11 , which article is
set forth verbatim as follows:
"Leonard Stringfield, Cincinnati's flying saucer
expert, believes the United States could take the space
spotlight away from Russia by opening up secret files on
unidentified flying objects.
·, It could be the start of co-oper'-3.tion among
all governments of the world,' he says . 'If all governments
would pool their information on unidentified flying
objects and work in unison on this it would help to ease
world tensions.'
Stringfield, advertising manager for DuBois
Chemicals, Inc., believes the unidentified flying objects
are from outer space and that they are controlled by
intelligent beings who are observing earth. .,
'I don 1 t believe there is any hostile intent, 1
he said. •r believe they have been using planets in our
solar system for bases, even the moon. Astronomers for years
have observed shifting spots on the moon. 1
Stringfield said he believes U.S. Air Force
secret files contain evidence •or near evidence' that the
objects are from outer space, but that officials are
afra1d that it would cause panic if released.
Foreign governments, too, have such evidence,
he said, but are keeping it secret for the same reason.
Stringfield, who heads Cincinnati's Unidentified
Flying Object Society, became interested ln unidentified
flying objects in 1945 while in the Air Force. He sa id
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