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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 . . the censors directly upon my head is your guess. .. Meantime, if this gets cleared, you may share in this, my latest quasi-official challenge. You will share b¥ becoming informed of the existing policies and metho dology of the. Defense Department's public information program -- that part of the program which covers the review clearanc.e of manuscripts written for personal publication by the department's employee·s. You will share 1μ my evaluation of the roles played by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Army's intelligence body (G-2) in monitoring the UFO research activities or an Army civilian employee. * * * We return first to 195S, to Fort Monroe, Va., head quarters of the U.S. Continental Army Command (USCONARC}, where I was employed for two years. As part of my early interest in aerial phenomena, I had an unofficial notic·e published in the Fort Monroe Daily Bulletin for S,eptember 22, 1958. The notice requested USCONARC personnel to report their UFO, sightings to me for analysis. It developed that fulfillment of my request would be in violation of two classifi.ed Army directives covering the official processing -2- --------,..,_._...L
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Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 290 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.