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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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-- I , NF 62- 720 This letter was forwarded to the Norfolk Office by the Richmond Division. On 9/17/63, Mrs . BEVERLY EARLEY, Secretary to Personnel Officer, Civilian Personnel Records Section, Fort Eust is, Virginia, advised SA JOHNS . CASTLES that files in her possession reflect that LARRY WILLIAM BRYANT, who was born, 2/23/38, Shenandoah, Page County, Virginia, and who has Social Security Number 230- 44- 9093, was employed at Fort Eustis as a clerk- typist on 5/22/58 and is presently employed as editorial clerk (typing) Transportability Branch, Technical Manuals Division, Directorate of Training Literature, United States Army Transportation School, Fort Eustis, Virginia . Mrs. EARLEY said her records reflect that BRYANT resides 5603 Madison Avenue, Newport NeNs, Virginia, and formerly resided at 1002 Arnold Street, Newport News, Virginia. - On 9/17/63 , BRYANT was interviewed by SA ~ N u . CASTI-ES in Room 206, United States Army Transportation School, Fort Eustis, Virginia. BRYANT advised that he had become interested in UFO while he was a member of the Grotmd Observer Corps for the Civil Defense in the old City of Warwick, virginia . He said since this time he has become intensell.y interested in UFOs and has done considerable research through read:i.ng and writin._-:; and obtaining informatlon through directing letters to different military agencies and civilian agencies ,-rho have reported sighting UFOs in the past . He said his interest in UFOs is a personal one and has no official status with his current job . He said presently he has prepared a research paper on UFOs and has directed it to Department of Defense for clearance so that he might offer it for publicat:i on to a ma~azine or newspaper. He said this research paper is an essay- type paper . While being questioned, BRYJ\NT stated that he had previously written to the FBI concerning UFOs and asked did the interviewing agent know· the date which he wrote, to which he was advised that it was in 1959 that he had directed a letter to the FBI. At the conclusion of the interview, BRYANT asked what was going to be done with the information obtained from the interview, to which he was told that a memorandum would be prepared for the file .
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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.