Documents / Official release

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.

  • p. 4 …SPENCER RAYNOR, Commanding Officer, 20th District, Office of Special Investigations, McChord Field, Washington. The following individuals…
  • p. 15 …Colonel Spencer Raynor Commanding Officer 20th District Office of Special Investigations McChord Air Force Base. Washington…
  • p. 24 …THE INSPECTOR GENERAL USAF 20th DISTRICT OFFICE OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS McCHORD AIR FORCE BASE, McCHORD FIELD…
  • p. 25 …OFFICE OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS McCHORD AIR FORCE BASE, McCHORD FIELD, WASHINGTON Mr. R. D. Auerbach Special…
  • p. 27 …THE INSPECTOR GENERAL USAF 20th DISTRICT OFFICE OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS McCHORD AIR FORCE BASE, McCHORD FIELD…
  • p. 31 …THE INSPECTOR GENERAL USAF 20th DISTRICT OFFICE OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS McCHORD AIR FORCE BASE, McCHORD FIELD…
  • p. 36 …LEVY Chief, Counter Intelligence Division Directorate of Special Investigations The Inspector General
  • p. 41 …There is no objection by this office to your investigation of this matter and your interview…
  • p. 45 …Raynor District Commander 20th District Office of Special Investigations United States Air Force McChord Air Force…
  • p. 48 …I am forwarding your letter and completed questionnaire to the Office of Special Investigations, United States…

This page's OCR needs a second look (cut short, looping or weak): read the scan itself.

No text on this page (the OCR read nothing: a blank, a photograph or an illegible scan).

Not linked to a story yet.

About this file

Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 55 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.