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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• ... • t • • which supposedly do not warrant such attention - - objects which, officially, are identifiable for the most part as natural aerial phenomena or 1iome other familiar, harmless manifestation. How can the over-all review-clearance system be manipulated by the UFO censors? Take as an authoritative answer the following excerpt £ran a letter written to me by a local US.AF official: 11 ••• Chapter 4, Section B, paragraph 2a(7), of Air Force Manual 190-4, 6 June 196o, says in part: 'When the ..• manuscript concerns military subjects.,national, or foreign affairs, it will be submitted to SAF-OI to review for accuracy, propriety .. • • and to obtain final clearance frau the Department of Defense . This policy applies to Air Force active duty personnel, retired personnel, civilian emplcyees, and members of the civilian components.' SAF-OI is the symbol for the Office of Information, Secretary of the Air Force. "Another directive, Air Force Regulation 200-2, governs activities as they relate to Unidentified Flying Objects. This regulation says only that base Information Officer s may examine manuscripts which are subnitted to them to be sure they are factual and accurate. The sam~ groups of persons as indicated above, according to this regulation, may not use Air Force material on Unidentified Flying Objects tor their writings." 5 ~te a challenge, isn ' t it? But as long as you and I are willing to meet it, there is still the hope that the censors will admit defeat and capitulate. You may be asking yourself, "If the censors do exist, then why is Bryant allowed to continue publishing his manuscripts?" That has been my question, too, and the only solution I can offer is that :treedan of infonnation has yet to perish entirely in America. -7- L . \
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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.