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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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• • December 2, 1958 ~ Mr. James Maney ' ~1107-North West 14th Street Oklahoma City 6, Oklahoma Dear Mr. Maney: Your letter dated November 22, 1958, has been received, and I am instructing a Special Agent of our Oklahoma City Office to contact you concerning the matter you mentioned. Sincerely yours, ::x, rr. C, I 0MA~Qaa J. Edgar Hoover ,, ~ DEC 3 -1958 John Edgar Hoover rr CJ1 OJ ~COMM-FBI Director H ; ::x, 0 0 t.:711-2 - Oklahoma City - Enclosures (2) X CXl> ATTENTION SAC : Background as described not identifiable in Bufiles. An Agent of you r office should contact Maney immediately and secure copies of or information concer ning the per iodicals described. Inform Maney that the FBI has not taken the action he suggested , and we ..., conduct• no investigation concerning unidentified flying objects . The s uggestion should be made that he may wish to contact the Office of Special Investigations of the Air Force, which has made some related studies. Sulet with request ed dat a under caption "Mr. J ames Maney, 1007 North West 14th Street, Oklahoma City 6, Oklamoma, Research (Crime Records)" no 1~} ~ c~f!~Ji./ 1958. ~.;, iv} Qr,i:f;r&J;.- l rz.tf·S( .,A?/ "- /v"1'ow-~ - ti,) ~ NOTE : One reference appears in Bufiles wherein one Jimmy ney of ~:~ : a-n== the same address requested general material on the FBI and stated that 0e1mon1 _ his hobby was collecting letterhead stationery. There is a Special AgentMohr __ Nease __ Joseph A. Bender, EOD 4-9-51, GS-12, assigned to the New York Office. ~~::~•-• -=-= No other possibly pe rtinent references located. Tamm__ ,. I T roller__ • ~~ ') i. J "'- "I.C. Sulllvan _ DCL:mfz ~ Tele. Room _ ( 6) 1Holloman Gandy I f .MAJt. ROO M O T E L E T YP E UNlT 0 -- - ~'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.