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Washington State ‘UFO’ Investigation, 1952-1960
Federal Bureau of Investigation · 1952 · 55 pages · text by OCR
This Federal Bureau of Investigation Seattle field office file (100-18945) gathers flying saucer material from 1952 to 1960. It holds newspaper clippings, citizen complaint forms and agent memoranda about sightings over Pasco, Kennewick, Seattle, Richland and the Hanford reservation, Spokane and other Washington locations. The file records 1952 agreements with military intelligence on passing reports to OSI and the Air Force. One Hanford sighting from 1953 was attributed to a meteorological balloon. The FBI itself carried out no investigations.
From the source:Release of 2026-06-12 Incident: July 1952-1960, Washington State, United States. This file details an investigation of various sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) in Washington state between July 1952 and August 1960. This file includes memoranda and correspondence between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Air Force regarding UFO sightings.
“Seattle”36 pages
- p. 1 …WITHOUT CONSULTING FOI/PA COORDINATOR 190-87
SEATTLE FILE NO. 100-18945
REVIEWED ON 4/84…
- p. 2 …I never have seen the like of it before."
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JUL 30 1952
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- p. 3 …Basin News Pasco, Washington
100-19550
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FBI • SEATTLE
- p. 4 …He said recently she had been back to the Seattle area and had called the Commanding…
- p. 8 …streaked away, was observed Sunday over South Seattle by several persons.
Arthur Owley, 4430-49th Ave…
- p. 10 …KATHLEEN CARTER, 4499 Union Bridge Lane, Seattle, an employee of the Signal Division, Seattle Port of…
- p. 14 …WHERE SHOWN OTHERWISE
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- p. 15 # 1015 Second Avenue Seattle 4, Washington August 10, 1953
Colonel Spencer Raynor Commanding Officer 20th District…
- p. 16 SAC, SEATTLE (100-19550)
SA DOUGLAS J. KRAUTER
UNUSUAL OBJECT IN AIR HOO, AEC 8/2…
- p. 18 # 1015 Second Avenue Seattle 4, Washington August 5, 1953
Mr. Robert T. Jaske 1405 Haupt Avenue…
- p. 19 …Name of Complainant
1207 SW 152nd St. Seattle
Address of Complainant
CH 6325
Telephone Number of…
- p. 23 …100-18945-57
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SEATTLE
- p. 24 …Auerbach Special Agent in Charge Federal Bureau of Investigation 1015 Second Avenue Seattle 4, Washington
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- p. 25 …Auerbach Special Agent in Charge Federal Bureau of Investigation 1015 Second Avenue Seattle 4, Washington
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- p. 27 …Auerbach Special Agent in Charge Federal Bureau of Investigation 1015 Second Avenue Seattle 4, Washington
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- p. 29 …WHERE SHOWN OTHERWISE
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JUN 9 1954
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- p. 30 …SAC SEATTLE
DATE: 6/22/54
FROM : SA J. FRANCIS SULLIVAN
100-18495
SUBJECT: UNIDENTIFIED FLYING…
- p. 31 …Auerbach Special Agent in Charge Federal Bureau of Investigation 1015 Second Avenue Seattle, Washington
Re: Unidentified…
- p. 32 …All weather stations, as well as Seattle AMIS; Navy; Coast Guard; 5 ADDC at Vancouver, B…
- p. 34 …Dawson resides at 8543-60 119th St, Seattle, Tel: MOHAWK-4069. Dawson recently visited his mother…
- p. 35 …JUN 21 1954
FBI - SEATTLE
Special Agent
- p. 39 …SAC, SEATTLE (62-
DATE: 6/1/56
FROM : SA CLEMENT W. PARKHURST
SUBJECT: FLYING SAUGER SEEN…
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- p. 42 …SAC, SEATTLE
DATE: 9-29-56
FROM : ROBERT E. PRINGLE
SUBJECT: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS REPORTED NEAR CAPE…
- p. 43 1015 Second Avenue Seattle, Washington October 17, 1956
Colonel Spencer W. Raynor, USAF District Commander 20th…
- p. 45 # 1015 Second Avenue Seattle 4, Washington November 15, 1957
Colonel Spencer W. Raynor District Commander 20th…
- p. 46 …100-18945-609
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- p. 48 # 1015 Second Avenue Seattle 4, Washington October 31, 1958
Mr. Alvin A. Wilcox South 2816 Monroe…
- p. 49 …SAC, SEATTLE (62-0)
DATE: 12/3/58
FROM : SA JAMES F. FLYNN
SUBJECT: FLYING SAUCERS…
- p. 50 …SAC, Seattle (62-0)
DATE: 4/20/59
FROM : SA John E. Connor
SUBJECT: Unidentified Flying…
- p. 51 …SAC, SEATTLE
DATE: July 17,1959
FROM : SA JAMES H. SANDUSKY
SUBJECT: INFO RE STRANGE FLYING…
- p. 52 …SAC, SEATTLE (105-0)
DATE: 10/10/59
FROM : SA VERNON P. COYNE
SUBJECT: "FLYING DISC…
- p. 53 # 1015 Second Avenue Seattle 4, Washington October 16, 1959
Col. Paul A. Hurst, USAF District Commander…
- p. 54 …out in open congressional hearing," Hillenkoetter said.
SEATTLE TIMES
FEB 28 1960
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- p. 55 …SAC, SEATTLE
DATE: 8/18/60
FROM : SA MERTON R. ANDERSON
SUBJECT: UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT Sighted…
1405 Haupt Ave. Richland, Washington
16 July 1953
Federal Bureau of Investigation Building 762 Handford Works Richland, Washington
Gentlemen:
On the afternoon of July 15th, 1953, I had taken off the afternoon to entertain guests from Portland and was engaged in small talk about the various target shooting equipment I have accumulated. My guest and I spotted an object in the sky which appeared to be a large kite. We turned my 30 power Bausch and Lomb observation telescope on the object and it turned out to be a large sheet of brown paper at about 10,000 feet elevation. Having been impressed with the tremendous resolving power of the instrument we scanned the skies with our naked eye for other objects such as birds at high altitude. Our reward for this observation was most remarkable.
At about 14:30 hours we sighted a bright shimmering speck at very extreme altitude, perhaps 30,000 feet perhaps much lower. This speck hovered at a north azimuth to Richland of about 80 degrees. I tried to pick up the object in the telescope and while trying to locate it in the very small field, about 15 minutes angle, my friend located another similar speck a short distance away. At this time we were convinced that they were birds, but had not yet sighted one in the glass because of the small field. Suddenly one of the specks ceased hovering and darted off to the west and disappeared. Still not giving this much thought I continued to search for the original object. After about three minutes searching I was able to bring it under observation and held it continuously for a period of two minutes until 14:44 hours.
At first I thought I had found a large bird, but closer examination proved to be an unusual object. The first glances gave an impression of a heliocopter with the rotor stationary, but I was soon convinced I had never seen anything like this before. No heliocopter has wings too, nor hovers with a stationary rotor. I shouted to my guests and all four held the bright speck under observation until it eventually disappeared. As I examined the object in the glass very carefully it seemed as though the white parts were surface features of the transparent
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