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From the source: Release of 2026-05-08 Incident: N/A, N/A. The FBI's 62-HQ-83894 case file includes investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports concerning Unidentified Flying Objects and flying discs documented between June 1947 and July 1968. The records include high-profile incident accounts, photographic evidence from sites like Oak Ridge, TN, and technical proposals regarding potential propulsion systems. Additional topics include convention programs, researcher accounts, and extensive media coverage from the period. This file is partially posted on FBI vault with more redactions and some pages missing. Included here is the complete case file with several newly declassified pages and only minor redactions.
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yestHday that ,o far IL~ rada.r most or them were tinged with a •·At a~r .distance .,,1~1ch 1~ close
scopes throughout the country slight tendency to laugh off the to thr l11111l of ho,~ far a person
have been .unable to. pick up any lwhole thing. ca11 ~ee," hi' ,uote, "~11 obJ.~cl,s
stra11ge obJecls In ~ltgbt. Dr. Winfred Overholser. nation• app, ar round or near!) ~o. I h '
And in the Pacific Northwest- ally known psychiatrist and super• law of sight covers bolh smi:11
where most of the fl~-happy plat-lintendent of St. Elizabetbs Hos- h \ seen nearby and large
ters have been r.eportid-the Ai·mylpital here, said it "has some of the t I g5 . ,
has radar equipment which ~an earmarks of being national hys- at gre •l dist an fog and darkness and pick teria." "Tht> ont> out~tand111g fact 11hout
up objects in the sky 200 miles "Everytime someone come, up ,•irtually all the ~au,·ers is that
a,, ay. with a sea-!·· most of the saucers have been re
fert. !hey would lest them. 111 one spot. ported, but added that hi~ trip
"The best way T can describe It," I III an 1so_lated ar~a. like the) did tllere was planned two months
~aid Kennedy, "was that it looked1the a\omic bomb,,' ago, long before the ,aucers scare.
like an orange lamp bulb without )laJ. Gen. Curt1~ E. Le)~ay. who General Spaatz is expected back in
the socket. It was going faster than a~ Deputy Chief of Air Staff for 'J'ashington late tomorrow.
any jet, plane I've eve1· seen." Rescar~h and Deveio~ment would :'.\luroc Army Ail· Field in Call-
11 Ha,zerstown, ~id.. Mrs. J\taj kno_w 1f lbe ~aucers mvolv.cd. ex- i'urnia had a P-80 je~ fighter stanw
n Ganoe, 30, ~aid sl1e had ~e<' perunents \11th gmded 1nlss1les, Lig by, and the National Guard I
t.e of the discs, racin& in 2-1 commented: <'rcgon had prepart'd six regul r
•mation at "lenific speed," fro "Whatever these people have fighters tn give chase shou :I
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Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 185 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.