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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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October 2, 1958
Director of Zpecial Inve&tigations
!ho lnspoctor General
Department of the Air Force
Building Tem o E
4th and Adams Drive, s. l'I.
lVashin9ton 25, D. c.
OELMAINE H. OVESON
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(Nationalities Intelligence)
neference is made to letter dated September 22,
1958, signed by Ur. F. L. t'elch, your reference 24-185-483,
re "Unidentified Flying Object, Torrington, Conn.,
5 December 19~7. "
Enclosed for your information is a copy of a
memorandum datod July 9, 1958, at Oonvez, Colorado, re
lating to tho subject. The other Government agency
.referred to in the memor,ndum !s the Office of Special
Investigations, Lowry Air Force Base, Denver, Colorado.
Also enclosed for your infomation is a copy of a memo
randum dated July 3, 1958, at San FranciscQ, California.
The representative of another Government agency referred
to therein ic Colonel William E. Zuerner, USAF District
Commander, Travis Air Force Base, california, who fur
nishod information concerning the subjoct developed
by OSI .
Since it appea~s that tho subject le a member
of the Air force , no further action in this matter iG
contemplated by 3this Bureau.
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