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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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•ago when I was finishing the groundwork for my- recently published article, 11 A Hard Look at UFO News Management, " 4 which was cleared by the Defense Department on October 10, 1963. Here is how it began. On July 23, 1963, I wrote to the ~eri!! of Sussex County, Va., requesting any UFO sighting data that he might possess. While on duty at Fort Eustis the af'ternoon , of September 17, I received a 10-minute visit rrom local FBI agent John S. Castles. Not only did Mr. Castles inquire about the Sussex \ . letter, but also about a similar letter I sent on August 8, 1963, to the Conmander of the Norfolk (Va.) Naval Base. Upon furnishing Mr. Castles the infomation he desired on my Civil Service position ·and r,ry UFO writings, I asked if it were customary for the FBI to interrogate anybody 11ho expresses an interest in UFO•s. He said no, that since his office was,- queried by the addressees of the two letters he 11as just seeking infonnation on 1which he could write a "memorandum for the files." Mr. Castles volunteered the followings "If the FBI has any such data f.on UFO sighting_y', it is probably of an intelligence nature and thus would be unavailable to the public and to private individuals." igain, the "authorities" have shown a serious, persuasive co~ern about the writings of a private citizen on objects • I
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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.