65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 009

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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Director, FBI DATE : November 20, 1957a,1 ~o
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SUBJECT: REPORTS OF FLYING DISCS
FOREIGN MISCELLANEOUS
The following information is submitted as of interest
to the Bureau in the event reports of flying discp are still desired.
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The Havana daily newspaper "Diario de la Marina" November 12,
1957, carried a dispatch datel~~ November 11, 19§.J~__at Pinar del Rio,
Cuba, reporting that JOSE. ~IET0 and OARMEL?~ZMAN, who had
just arrived in that town from the Matahambre Mines in Pinar del Rio
Province, claimed that they had seen a flying disc in the shape of a
man's hat hovering over the general area of Matahambre for several }
minutes. They claimed that this disc was larger than ordinary airpla
normally seen in that area and that it was completely silent in its
flight. They said that it disappeared at a very high speed towards
the sea. There was no further descriptive information furnished in J
this newspaper article. It is noted that Matahambre is located
approximately 90 miles to the west of Havana . No other reports
corroborating the above were
by this office.
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