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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.
“Socorro, New Mexico”7 pages
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m>ERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGAT109
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FBI ALBUQUEE ~COMMUNICATIONS SECTION.
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~ NIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT r SOCORRO , N. M. APR T;:TY7 SIXTYF0UR m _·--
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INFORMATION RECEIVED APR TWENTY FOUR AND TWENTY FI VE , FROM ----· -
LONN~~ORA , CONSIDERED SOBER , DEPENDABLE , MATURE , NOT OF _ «~
FANTASY , OFFICER OF POL I CE DEPARTMENT SOCORRO , ~ THAT AT ABOUT fa:.~ ~
FIVE FIFTY PM MST , WH I LE IN SOUTH AREA OF SOCORRO NOTED FLAME IN 4f1lfF
SKY TO SOUTHWEST , WHICH HE DECIDED TO CHECK OUT IN 3ELIEF DYNAM I~~L~
SHACK IN AREA HAD BLOWN UP . "1J
WHILE TRAVEL I NG I N ISOLATED AREA APPROXMATELY ONE MILE ~
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SOUTH AREA OF SOCORRO , NOTED IN DEPRESSION ABOUT EIBHT ..l:{t.JNDRED ~
FEET AWAY WHITISH OBJECT WHICH , UPON GLANCING AT SAME , . ~~PEARED )Pf~
TO BE OVERTURNED AUTOMOBI LE . TWO PERSONS IN APPARENT WHITE
COVERALLS WERE ADJACENT TO OBJECT . -I ~ THEN TRAVELED OVER ROUGH ROAD TO SPOT ABOUT ONE HUNDRED
THREE FEET FROM OBJECT AND ABOUT TWENTY TO TWENTY FIVE FEET HIGHER .
~O PERSONS VI SIBLE. HEARD TWO OR THREE LOUD THUMPS , LESS THAN
A SECOND APART , THEN WITH A ROAR AND BLUISH AND 9RANGE FLAMES ,
013.fICT SLOWLY VERTICALLY ROSE TO _fli\~ CAR HE I GHJ , THE)J NOJ.SE . .A~D 7J_
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FLAME STOPPED AND OBJECT TOOK OFF AT HIGH SPEED IN STRA I GH.I.J..1 NF AND
ALMOST HOROZONTALLY TO DISAPPEAR OVER DISTANT MOUNTA1'JAPR 30 1964
ZAMORA , GREATLY FRI GHTENED , RADIOED HIS OBSERVATIOWS "AND -
NMSP SERGEANT AND SOCORRO COUNTY UNDERSHER I FF , QUICKLY ON SCENE,~/ ~
NOTED FOUR SMALL IRREGULARLY SHAPED SMOULDERING AREAS AND FOUR
REGULAR DEPRESSED AREAS APPROXIMATELY SIXTEEN BY SIX INCHES IN
END PAGE ONE MR. MOHR FOR THE DIRECTOR
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