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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.
“Office of Special Investigations”10 pages
# More Saucer Witnesses Further reports of "flying saucers" over the Kennewick Pasco area continued to pour in last night. Thomas Richardson, who operates the drive-in theater at the Richland "Y" reported yesterday he observed a circular or disc-like object that seemed to have lights all around its perimeter, on Monday night. A new flying saucer report was given to the Kennewick police by William J. Luedke, 1614 West Fifth, Kennewick. He said he saw an "eerie object" in the sky that "appeared round at times and triangular at times." A whole cluster of flying saucers was reported to The News last night by five persons, four of them youths who live in the Navy Homes area. The youngsters who reported seeing the "saucers" were Timothy Hogland, 14; Bobby Greno, 13; Larry Luci; 11 and Mike May, 7. E. C. Keller of 520 South Rainier also said he saw the "tandem-saucers," at 10:15 last night. ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED BECEPT WHERE SHOWN OTHERWISE 18945-36 Columbia Basin News Pasco, Washington 100-19550 SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZED FILED JUL 3 1 1952 FBI • SEATTLE
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