Havana, Cuba

On November 20, 1957, the FBI Legal Attaché in Havana reported that Jose Maria Nieto and Carmelo Guzman claimed to have seen a flying disc in the shape of a man's hat hovering over Matahambre, Cuba, before it disappeared at very high speed toward the sea. An internal FBI memo dated November 12, 1957, from R. R. Roach to A. H. Belmont noted a surge in flying saucer and UFO reports across the U.S. following the Soviet release of Sputnik. On January 23, 1958, FBI Director John Edgar Hoover referred information about Robert T.