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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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~ Office Memorandum • UNITED GOVERNMENT
TO : Director, FBI DATE: December 9 , 1958
f with copy to the Okla homa City Office .
On 12/8/58 JAMES MANEY, 1007 N.W . 14th St.,
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was contacted by SA J . A. GRIMES
and advised that the FBI has not discouraged the investiga
tion of flying saucers and that the FBI does not conduct
investigation concerning unidentified flying objects {UFO) .
JAMES MANEY, who advised he is 13 years of age,
stated he had read rqx,rts in some of the litera ture concern
ing UFO whi ch indicated that the FBI had discouraged some
of the investigators from carrying out their research. He
exhibited a copy of a publication entitled "The Saucerian
Bulletin" which could not be given to the interviewing
Agent since he had borrowed the publication from an unidenti
fied friend . An examination of the publication reflected
it to be Vol . 3, #4, Released October 15, 1958, edited and
published by GRAY BARKER, Box 2228, Clarksburg , West Virgini
The publication consisted of approximately 30 pages, contain
several book reviews and advertisements for books pertaining
to UFO . Page 20 of the publication contained an editoria l
by BARKER consisting in part of a letter which BARKER sta:;ed
he had received from a researcher in the western part of the
U. S . This letter stated in part as follows:
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ReBulet 12/2/58 to J AMES MANEY of Oklahoma City, Not linked to a story yet.
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.