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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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UN. D STATES DEPARTMENT OF l. TICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Cincinnat i , Ohi o In Reply, Ple!ue Ref er to Oct ober 17 , 1961 Fih No. 100-11671 RE: CIVILIAN RESEARCH, I NTERPLANETARY FLYING OBJECTS, LEONARD H . STRINGFIBLD , DIRECTOR, CINCINNATI, OHIO Leonard H. Stringfield, Advertising Manager, DuBois Chem~cal Company, Inc . 7th a nd Broadway, . .-- Cinci nnati, Ohio, residence, 4412 Gr ove Avenue, v Mariemont , Cincinnati , Ohio, advised on September 25, 1961, thctt he is active .1.n uni dentified !'l ying objects r esearch , t hat he has publ i shed a bul let i n concerning these ma tters, that he is well kno~~ in this field , and that he has wor ked with the Air Defense Command concer ning mat t ers r el ating to unidentif ied flying object s . Mr . Str ingfield advised that he recentl y appeared on a television pr ogr am known as Impact News on television station WCPO- TV, Cincinnati , Ohio, appearing on Sunday, September 10, 1961, at which time he was questlonec by a panel of three members concerning matters relating to unidentified flying objects . Mr. Str ingfield advised that at approximately 9 :00 A. M. on September 25, 1961 , he had received an anonymous telephone call, being male caller, whose voice he described as fir m, clear, a~d who spoke good English . The caller rel ated that he had very important information to r el ate to Mr . Stringfiel d, whom he asked for by name in his call, relaving to unidentified flying objects . Mr' . Stringfiel d r elated that the call er T~!~TE=--IT<:'. AR~ TO BG D::3"R13.JTE_'1 C,._,T.:31J1:: TH~ AGENCY TO WHl...::H LOANt:D.
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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.