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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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# Office Memorandum·UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : SAC SEATTLE DATE: 6/22/54 FROM : SA J. FRANCIS SULLIVAN 100-18495 SUBJECT: UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Neah Bay 6/22/54 At 11:10 PM this date Special Agent Phil Howell OSI telephonically contacted this office to report that an identified flying object was picked up by the Radar station at Neah Bay between 1930 and 1945 this date. The object was 38 to 40 miles S.W. of Neah Bay at an Altitude of 1500 to 2000 feet. Two planes were "scrambled" from McChord Field to intercept and pisked up a "blip" on the radar scopes in their planes. The "blip" separated into two "blips" as they were watching. They chased the "bkips" for 8 to 12 minutes. The "blips" faded from the scopes presumably because of fast air speed. The objects flew South then turned east when they faded. None of the pilots sighted the objects visually. The pilots were being interrogated by the intelligence officer at McChord. Other Radar stations were being contacted to ascertain if any further sightings were made. The 25th Air Division is submitting a report to to the Air Technical Intelligence Center, Wright Patterson Field, Ohio. HOWELL stated the report was received from the Intelligence Officer of the 25th Air Division. The above information was furnished to GEORGE DAVIS of CIC at 11:25PM this date. Attempts to furnish information to DIO 13ND. were to no avail as no duty officer was available at DIO. 6/23/54 Advert. King-DED. Offered Reynolds & F. Nothern add. Letter on this 18945-57 100-18495 SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZED FILED JUN 28 1954 FBI - SEATTLE 60
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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.