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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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Date: 9/24/63
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DIRECTOR, FBI
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~SUBJECT: LARRY W. BRYANT
NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA
RESEARCH (CORRESPONDENCE AND TOURS)
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A review of Norfolk files reflects that
BRYANT directed a letter to the Commanding Officer,
Cape Charles Air Force Station, Cape Charles, Virginia,
8/7/58, requesting information concerning unidentified
flying objects (UFO) . A copy of that correspondence
was directed to the FBI, Norfolk, by Cape Charles
Air Force Station officials .
Records also reflect that BRYANT had directed fa letter to the FBI, 2/1/59, which correspondence
was answered by the Bureau, 2/9/59 . BRYANT directed
a letter to Commanding Officer, Headquarters , Aircraft
Fleet, Marine Force Atlantic, U. S . Naval Base, Norfol k,
Virginia, 6/15/60, requesting i-&formatio_n concerning
UFOs . That agency submitted~ copy of that correspondence
to the FBI, Norfolk . E { 'I 'f'!JG31Files further reflec ij ~h~BRYANT directed
a letter to Commander, U. S . Naval Base, Norfolk, Virginia,
8/8/63, concerning restrictions that command has
against the publicizing of flying saucer sighting reports
made by Navy personnel . A copy of this correspondence
was directed to the FBI Office, Norfolk, Virginia.
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C • ' Stony Creek, Virginia, in which BRYANT requested ___
information concerning UFOs . This correspondence -was postmarked at Fort Eustis, Virginia, on 7/23/63 .
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