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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.
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SAC, SEATTLE (100-19550) SA DOUGLAS J. KRAUTER UNUSUAL OBJECT IN AIR HOO, AEC 8/2/53 ## ATTENTION: SA DUCOMMUN On this date Mr. ALLEN EDDY, in charge of CIC Resident Agency, Richland, Washington, contacted the writer and requested that he meet with Mr. EDDY at the office of Mr. J. F. McHALE of the AEC Security Division. The reason was to relate a report which he had received concerning some unusual objects seen over the Hanford Reservation area at 9:20 p.m. on August 2, 1953. Mr. EDDY advised that he had been contacted by Mr. A. I. MOORE, 2433 Clearwater Avenue, Kennewick, Washington. The objects were also seen by Mrs. MARY ELEANOR HODSON, 2504 Clearwater, Kennewick, who is employed as a nurse at Kadlec Hospital, Richland. Mr. EDDY advised that they had related to him that on the evening of August 2 while finishing an outdoor supper in Mr. MOORE's yard in Kennewick, they had noticed two reddish-orange balls of fire going at a speed estimated by Mr. MOORE as very fast and actually stated by him to be about three times as fast as a B-47 flies. He stated that these objects were traveling south by west, almost due west, were very brilliant, and disappeared when dropping over the horizon over Rattlesnake Mountain which borders the southwest edge of the Hanford Reservation. Mr. EDDY advised that Mr. MOORE appeared to be a very substantial individual who was very sincere in this story. At the meeting, Mr. McHALE contacted his airport and ascertained that there had been no reports of any radar testing or any planes over the area at the particular time involved. Mr. McHALE himself landed in the AEC plane at 9:15 p.m. and stated that neither he nor the two pilots had noticed anything unusual while they were coming in for the landing. It was Mr. McHALE's feeling that very possibly the objects seen were some slight fog banks which he had noticed forming, showing up in the Pasco airport beacon. Mr. EDDY advised that he would like for the Bureau to pass the information on to the Air Force immediately 100-18945-22,23 DJK:hz cc: Flying Saucer file SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZED FILED AUG 4 1953 FBI·SEATTLE
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Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 55 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.