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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.
WE WI LL NEED WITH MO VI E ANO ST I LL PHOTOGRAPH IC ANO TELESCOPES, I N THE DEVO TE FROM RELI ED UPON TO HAVE OBJECTS SHOULD CLUBS , (ND I VfDUALS FOR THE INTER CONTINENTAL AERIAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION NOT ICE! To ALL CONCERNED: IF ANYONE HAS SEEN ANY UN IDENT I FI ED FLYING OBJECTS•• KNOWN ALSO AS FLY I NG SAUCERS•-OR KNOWS ANYONE WHO HAS SEEN THEM S I NOE JANUARY I ST, t 957, PLEASE CONTACT US IMMED IATELY, GI VING FULL NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF THE WITNESSES TO THESE SIGHTINGS • WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF SETT! NG UP Uf O OBSERV·ER PosTS ALL OVER THE UNI TED STATES, CANADA , EUROPE, ALASKA, AUSTRALIA , JAPAN , ENGLAND, AFRI CA, AND SOUTH AMERICA . ANO EACH STATE, PROVINCE OR REG ION WILL HAVE I TS OWN FI LTER CENTER WHICH WI LL SERVE AS A RECEI VING STATI ON FOR ALL UFO REPORTS ANO OTHER ASSOCI ATED DATA, A DISTRIB UTI ON POINT FOR MATE RIAL FROM HEAO QUARTERS, AND AS A GENERAL SECRETARY f OR ICARf , OUR FILTER• OBSERVER NETWORK IS EXPAND I NG BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS, BUT WE ARE ST I LL FAR FROM OUR GOAL. THE AIR f ORCE tNVEST IGATI ON HAS EITHER GONE UNDERGROUND, OR ELSE THEY HAVE THE ANSWER AND ARE HIDI NG THE FACT FROM THE PUBLI C. THE FACT REMA INS THAT MILL IONS OF PEOPLE CONTINUE TO SEE THESE UfOs ANO THE PUBLIC STILL OOESN 1T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE . • IT IS OUR PURPOSE I N ORGAN I ZING ICARf TO FI ND THE ANSWER TO THE UFO MYSTERY , AND GIVE THE FACTS TO THE PUBLI C. ANO IN ORDER TO DO THIS THE ASS ISTANCE OF EVERY PERSON CONCERNED• PERSONS CAMERAS ARE PARTICULARLY NEEDED , FOR THE EMPHASIS IS ON DATA, DESPI TE THE FACT THAT S I GHT INGS WITH BINOCULA RS SOUNO DETECTOR ANO HAM RAD IO STAT IONS ARE ALSO VERY IMPORTANT PROCESS OF OUR RESEARCH• ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN SETTING UP OBSERVER POS TS WHO CAN ONE TO THREE HO URS A DAY ON SIO'WATCH, AND WHO CAN BE THEIR CAMERAS LOADED ANO READY TO PHOTOGRAPH THESE IW.UEDIATELY CONTACT US FOR FULL INFORMATION. ADULT S KYWATCH HIGH SCHOOL GROUPS, SC I ENCE CLUBS, INDUSTRIAL GROUPS , AND 1N GENERA L ARE ALL PARTI CULARLY ASKED TO JO IN US I N OUR SEARCH A~SWER TO THE Uf Os . CONTACT US AT THE ADDRESS ABOVE. INTER CONTINENTAL AERIAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION fORM OP- 2
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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.