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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 009

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 290 pages · text from the file's own layer

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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•(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
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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
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