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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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• January 231 1958 Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force Bui Zdtng Tempo E 4th and Ada~s Drtve, s. JY. Washington, D. c. John Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Subject: ROBERT T. STONE; INTER CONTINENT.AL AERIAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION MISCELLAllEOUS - INFORM4 TION CONCERNING On December 20, 195?, lJr. B. B. Watson, Ctty Pi:litor, Hannibal Courter-Post, Hannibal, Missouri , advised an agent of thts Bureau .at Hannibal that he ?Das tn receipt of an urn:iated letter stgned by P.. T. Stone. This letter bears the letterhead nrnter-Continental Aerial Research Foundation• and tn the upper right corner there is typed nmsSOURI FILTER CEIITE/i., Robert T. Stone, Director, 10?1? E. 2?th Terr., ndependence, Uissouri . n The letter furnished by Mr. Wa tson is as follows:I C' "Dear Edi tor:BY CQ.0.JJl~R SVC. •The enclosed notice is self- explanatory. 1re ~ould like to request this publtc serv!c• tn ·the name of Truth, which the newspapers of our great countries so proudly defend and uphold. ; IAN2 3 • • .'St~ 'Louis,Tolson __~ ___...Nichols _ Kansas ' 'dft y NOT:: FotrsAc,1 KANSAS OITY1 Re St . Louis letter Boardman __ Z/6/58. Advise1r8ureau results of your indicesBelmont_~ checl~ but condud't Jno inl)estigp,tion.Mohr ~ f ,, .,a--ESS:dmn ·) (?) £ :.- 7[V I I·. i 1/" , J7 ro J. V IY /11.4"L EfOOlvl ~ ~ se___ Roo::5= an
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