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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. 6 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington, D…
  • p. 26 …Summary of Observations of Aerial Phenomena in the New Mexico Area, December 1948 - May 1950 25…
  • p. 83 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington, D…
  • p. 134 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25…
  • p. 136 …of your letter to The Honorable, The Secretary of Defense, The Pentagon, Washington, D. C., and…
  • p. 148 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25…
  • p. 149 …cc - Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2 Department of the Army The Pentagon Washington 25, D…
  • p. 186 …to The Honorable, The Secretary of the Air Force, Department of Defense Building, The Pentagon, Washington…
  • p. 200 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25…
  • p. 204 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington, D…
  • p. 225 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25…
  • p. 249 …to The Honorable, The Secretary of the Air Force, Department of Defense Building, The Pentagon, Washington…
  • p. 262 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25…

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

OBJECTS SIGHTED OVER OAK RIDGE,

TENNESSEE.

## F. (Continued)

"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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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. 271 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.