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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 006

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 271 pages · text by 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. 115 …Captain Mantell could never have reached the height at which the balloon was traveling." "Our studies…
  • p. 172 …30, 1947, with the understanding he might never have them returned. Blumenthal was advised the FBI…
  • p. 178 …had not been dreaming." He continued: 'I never heard the expression flying saucer until I escaped…
  • p. 179 …And the Oval wicket, though it needed watching, was never anything remotely wicked. Yorkshire have a…
  • p. 182 …30, 1947, with the understanding he might never have them returned. Blumenthal was advised the FBI…
  • p. 185 …30, 1947, with the understanding he might never have them returned. Blumenthal was advised the FBI…
  • p. 198 …He advised that the sightings reported in the last classification have never been satisfactorily explained. He…
  • p. 222 …Jesus Leoffreda Benson be salvaged your have never heard of Bentford doe he I effects the…
  • p. 243 ## (3) When you look at it from that point you can see they can never be…
  • p. 251 …cloud being charged electrically and a magnetic polarity being same as the interceptor it can never
  • p. 253 …being same as the interceptor it can never be overtaken, and would if persued gradually grow…
  • p. 260 …Since air lenses are almost never perfect, the world we see through them is distorted and…
# DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE WASHINGTON 25. D. C.

28 MAY 1852

Honorable J. Edgar Hoover Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation U. S. Department of Justice Washington 25, D. C.

Received from OSI

Date 2011/07/14

Flying Saucers

ATTN: Mr. N. W. Mulcox, Liaison Agent

RE: Unidentified Aerial Object Sighted General Area Ritchie Highway, South Baltimore, Maryland, 10:45 PM, 29 Mar 52 by Donald Stewart, 2241 Warren Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland

Dear Sir:

There is attached for your information a copy of a report by Special Agent Boyce Royal of this office dated May 12, 1952, in regard to the captioned subject. Your attention is invited to the statement of Mr. Donald Stewart as reflected on page 4, paragraph 7, of the report, to the effect that, at the time of the alleged sighting of this object, he had in his possession a Thompson sub-machine gun. A copy of this attachment has also been furnished the Treasury Department.

No further inquiry into this matter is contemplated by the Office of Special Investigations.

1 x of copy to BA warrant black checks to Lt ser 105-1126 24

1 Incl

Rpt by SA Royal dtd 12 May 52

Gilbert D. Lewy

Chief, Counter Intelligence Division Directorate of Special Investigations The Inspector General

RECORDED - 129

INDEXED - 129

20 JUN 6 1952

EX-130

DECLASSIFIED

Authority:

NND 90986

Cases discussed

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Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 271 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.