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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 006

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 271 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section, 62-HQ-83894 Section 6 (serials 246 to 301), collects FBI memoranda and correspondence from 1950 to 1952 on flying saucers. It covers green fireballs and discs seen near sensitive installations in New Mexico, Dr. Lincoln LaPaz's analysis, and the Air Force's Land-Air study known as Project Twinkle. It also holds an OSI summary, a USAF directive on reporting unconventional aircraft, a dissolving object reported by Philadelphia police, and letters from members of the public.

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.

  • p. 47 …vertical5 to E 4 Horizon1 Vertical Steel gray 4 at 30 mts1 at 25 secs None…
  • p. 70 …x27; Varied from shiny silver to shady gray None 30 mts None Round Size of end…
  • p. 100 …forwarded herewith. Report of SAC WILLIAM B. GRAY, CIC, dated 1-2-51, entitled "Object Sighted…
  • p. 103 …USAF Mr. James R. Gray Mr. William G. Frey Mr. Gray, Commander Hribar, and Major Steele…
  • p. 105 …P. O. Box 415, Oak Ridge, Tenn. CERTIFIED TRUE COPY: WILLIAM B. GRAY, SAC, Knoxville, Tenn.
  • p. 179 …R Gray b Spencer ... D Inglebv-McKenzie b Palmer ... Harrison b Palmer ... W H Rayment c…

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111th CIC, FAO #8, P. O. Box 379, Knoxville, Tennessee.

OBJECTS SIGHTED OVER OAK RIDGE,

TENNESSEE.

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"0832 hours - Atomic Energy Commission reported aircraft over Northeast end of area - no paint. (Paint meaning indication on the radar scopes.)

"0839 hours - Small paint near Southeast corner of area on 190 degree. (Magnetic bearing of objects travel.)

"0845 hours - Lost contact. Fighter interception was attempted with negative results."

Attached hereto are two certified true copies of the statements made by the above mentioned observers.

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