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Office Men • dum . TO DIRECTOR, FBI DATE: 11-14-57 FLYING DISCS INFORMATION CONCERNING Re Kansas City letter 11-8-57. This matter is being referred to OSI without inves­ tigation and no other action is being taken in accordance with existing instructions.

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uNITEn GOVERNMENT Director, FBI November 20, 1957 ~ Legal Attache, Havana, Cuba 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. The Havana daily newspaper "Diario de la Marina" November 12, 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 m 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 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 received and no inquiry has been made by this office.

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SUBJECT: UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS ~:~:== Ever since the Russians released "Sputnik" there has been a great increase in the number oj' "/lying saucers" ~I .d, and other unidentified flying objects {UFO) reportedly seen by I?: . people all over the u. s. on October 10, 1957, the Air Force ~1¢:J was j'looded with calls and the newspapers were j'ull of reports (J that an unknown object described as "looked like the moon" and trailing a "blue j'lame that pulsed like a heart" had landed in ) the vicinity of Vernal, Utah. The Air Force immediately investigated these reports with negative results, inasmuch as 1 no object was located nor was there any evidence of an object having fallen in Utah. Within the past two weeks reports in these cases have increased tremendously and some of the more serious have been described as follows: An object had landed in Nebraska with six people aboard, the persons had talked to a Nebraska j'armer and then sped oj'j' into space; a j'irey object was seen flashing across .,- ~ the southern skies from Albany, Georgia, to Miami, Florida; a Coast Guard cutter had sighted a huge object j'lying over the Gulj' of )Jexico, and persons in the Southwestern states while driving their cars have allegedly seen UF0 1s that caused the engines in their automobiles to stop. In view of the number oj' these reports, the Bureau ' s Liaison Representative discussed these various sightings with officials of Air Force Intelligence and was advised that all \ the cases mentioned above have j'or all practical purposes been /i resolved as being nonauthentic or there was no basis j'or the sightings. Investigating details that the Air Force had out in the j'ield investigating these matters have not submitted their complete reports but have advised that they are all more· or less negative. The Air Force is j'ollowing these sightings closely and all reports are submitted to the Air Technical and Intelligence Center, at '-.. Wright- Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio where they are· evaluated~ and analyzed. In the event any of the j'uture reports appear to ~ be authentic, the Air Force will immediately notify the Bureau, keeping in mind our particular interest in matters concerning espionage and sabotage.

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Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force BuiZdtng Tempo E 4th and Ada~s Drtve, JY. John Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Subject: ROBERT T. STONE; INTER CONTINENT.AL AERIAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION MISCELLAllEOUS - INFORM4 TION CONCERNING 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 I The letter furnished by Mr. Watson is as follows: "Dear Edi tor: name of Truth, which the newspapers of our great countries so proudly defend and uphold. Boardman __ Z/6/58. Advise1r8ureau results of your indices an EfOOlvl

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Director of Special Investtgattons "As a ctvil tan body of tnvesttgators> 1De hope to unravel the snarled uss that shrouds the U.F. O. question, and wit h the help of the newspapers and the publtc, where can we fatJ? #lfe will be grateful tf you rDill publish the enclosed appeal on the front page of your neUJSpaper, tn a conspicuous enough ,aanner that no one will fall to nottce tt. It Is the public 1De must depend upon to get thoroughly organt6ed, and with tht• co-operation we are certain that we can find the ansrHr to the rtddl • of the 'Flytng Saucers.' •rt a f'tJter Center has been established tn your state or province, this form letter will carry its given on the enclosed 'Publtc Nottce.' If no such Jilter center address ts gtven, then the original headquarters address should be used. #We wtsh to thank you for any asststance you nay be able to gtve us tn this respect. Later established ftlter center addresses will be sent to you for publtc attention tn the event oJ unusual sighttngs, that may come to your att~ntton. "For the Inter Continental Aerfal At tached to the Jett•r was the nottce which it was r•guested be published. Thta notice ts as follows:

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lnoum also as flying sauc•rs--or kno1DB a.nyon• who has se•n them stnce January 1st, 1957., plttase contact ua ,..,11dtate1v, giving full naaes and addr•ss•s of the AustraJta, Japan, England, A,frtca, and South .America. And ,a.ch state, provtnce or r•gton wtll havtt tts own for all UFO r11ports and other assoctatttd data, a as a gttneral secretary f or ICARP.