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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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In ' •(l), "The 'official censorship, ridicule and silence' as stated are not true, nor is the statement •conceal vital UFO data•. stead it would be more correct to state that the policy of the Department of Defense is not to release UFO data not substantiated by fact. '7 ( 2} "Inference is made of ~_,i.sm in efforts to obtain information about UFO when in fact the control of such information follows an established policy. The Department of Defense must maintain such controls to insure that data released is based on fact.~ (3) "Attempts to extract UFO data from this headquarters ffiSCONARQ7 cannot be met. Suggest contact be made with ... the U. s. Air Force. Any matter received should be considered privileged information and not for release to the public. (4) "The statements contained herein are not an attempt at •censorship'. The Army encourages its ... personnel to speak and write, as long as they stick to the facts, do not reveal classified infQrmation, and meet standards of propriety." 2 * Shortly after I transferred from Fort Monroe to j the u. S. Army Transportation S~hool at Fort Eustis, Va., I again pulled my end of our tug of war. I wanted to squelch rumors that UFO•s were secret terrestrial weapons. 1 Pursuing this angle, I wrote privately to the Combat Develop ment agency at Eustis on March 13, 1960, and asked whether l -4- '
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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.