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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 009

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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.

  • p. 26 ---- ---- TO Z RECTOR, FBI DATE: January 30 , 1958 a 'LWc,KANSAS CITY (62-7386) SUBJECT~.. BERT…
  • p. 74 _ • • ..._... ' l - Belmont 1 - Donahoe SAC, fhoenix 1 - f11Effber 16 • 19~ Director, FBI ~ (f;/ REC- 37 & 2…
  • p. 75 …The only identifiable data in our files on Bender is a letter he wrote on 10…
  • p. 95 …ce emoran um • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Director, FBI DATE: May· 5, 1959 SAC, Seattle (62- 1729…
  • p. 108 …He furnished both of those pictures to the FBI .
  • p. 130 …PERSONS The Assistant to the President Bureau files reflect SAC, Detroit, 3/9/IO, advised of…
  • p. 148 • •. f UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION fo Reply, Please Refer to File…
  • p. 152 • •UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION In Reply, Please Refer w File No…
  • p. 164 …0 12-13- 56) I I I I I FBI I I Date: 5/ 20/ 60…
  • p. 175 …Bureau files contain nothing identifiable with Mr. Zigler. On the basis of information furnished by him…
  • p. 179 …DIR.ECTOR, FBI (62-83894) DATE: 10/ 1+/61 PROM~ SAC, CINCINNATI (100-11671) ,,,f~ vilian…
  • p. 204 …He instructed me to advise you that the confidential nature of our files will preclude compl…
  • p. 206 …directed to the FBI Office, Norfolk, Virginia. ✓ .30 There is also in file a copy of…
  • p. 207 …CASTLES that files in her possession reflect that LARRY WILLIAM BRYANT, who was born, 2/23…
  • p. 209 …SAC, Norfolk ~ C'") t.rFrom: ~ctor, FBI ~ "'tt ....,7 ? "-, Ct:) $ ~LARRY \\·. ~YANT NEWPORT NEWS, YlB~ ., ;: ~ -1…
  • p. 239 …the files. '" Bryant also states that SA Castles volunteered the following: "If the FBI has any…
  • p. 241 …be made a matter of record in FBI files. Bryant was subsequently advised by in-absence…
  • p. 247 …memorandum for the files." Mr. Castles volunteered the followings "If the FBI has any such data…
  • p. 250 …It bas been the FBI's long-standing policy not to conduct invea.tigatlons regarding information…
  • p. 252 …According to the AP , it was stated that the FBI was investi gating this sighting . Would…
  • p. 259 …assistance to you, the files of the FBI must be malntained as ccrfJii ■IIIJ a •ordance…
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIOfl
FBI ALBUQ UEE: • • •
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSrlCE
COMMUNICATIONS SECTION
y1 !M MST . URGENT 4 -'2?·64 RGL· APR 2 5 1964
/TO DIRECTOR, FBI • TELETYPE ' ··
FROM SAC , ALBUQUERQUE 62-NEW 1,1 , tt
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OUR, SIXTYFOUR \ -:=
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UNI DENTI FI ED FLYING OBJECT, SOCORRO, N.M. APR T
.INFORMATION CONCERNING. M ,i ll,HO~~ - -
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INFORMATION RECEIVED APR TWENTY FOUR AND TWENTY FIVE, FROM _.... ·-·--
LONNIE ZAMORA , CONSIDERED SOBER, -DEPENDABLE, MATURE, NOT OF ~
FANTASY, OFFICER OF POLICE DEPARTMENT SOCORRO, N.M. THAT AT ABOUT •
FIVE FIFTY PM MST , WHILE IN SOUTH AREA OF SOCORRO NOTED FLAME I N
SKY TO SOUTHWEST , WHICH HE DECIDED TO CHECK OUT IN BELIEF DYNAM ITE
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SHACK IN AREA HAD BLOWN UP.
WHILE TRAVELING IN I SOLATED AREA APPROXMATELY ONE MILE
SOUTH AREA OF SOCORRO , NOTED IN DEPRESSION ABOUT EIGHT HUNDRED
FEET AWAY WHITISH OBJECT WH ICH, UPON GLANCING AT SAME, APPEARED )
TO BE OVERTURNED AUTOMOBILE. TWO PERSONS IN APPARENT WHITE
COVERALLS WERE ADJACENT TO OBJECT.
THEN TRAVELED OVER ROUGH ROAD TO SPOT ABOUT ONE HUNDRED \.
THREE FEET FROM OBJECT AND ABOUT TWENTY - o TWLNTY FIVE FEET HIGHER .
NO PERSONS VISIBLE. ~EARD TWO OR THREE LOUD THUMPS, LESS THAN
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A SECOND APART, THEN WI TH A ROAR AND BLUISH AND ORANGE FLAMES ,
OBJECT SLOWLY VERTICALLY ROSE TO ABOUT CAR HEIGHT, THEN NOISE AND
FLAME STOPPED AND OBJECT TOOK OFF AT HI GH SPEED I N STRAI ~HT LINE AND
ALMOST WQR OZONTALLY TO DISAPPEAR OVER DI STANT MOU NTAI N.
ZA '· QRA , GREATLY FRIGHTENED,. RAD IOED HIS OBSERVA: IONS AND
NMSP S£rlGEANT AND. SOCORRO COUNTY UNDERSHERIFF, QU I CKLY ON SCENE ,
NOTED FOUR SMALL IRREGULARLY SHAPED SMOULDERING AREAS AND FOUR
REGULAR DEPRESSED AREAS
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