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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.

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CONFESSIONAL

Badness found

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Date: August 12, 1952

To: Director of Special Investigations

The Inspector General

Department of the Air Force

The Pentagon

Washington, D. C.

From: John Edgar Hoover, Director

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Subject: FLYING SAUCERS

Attached are two copies of a letter from Mrs. Ora A. Tygrett dated July 31, 1952, addressed to the War Department, c/o Federal Bureau of Investigation, the contents of which are self-explanatory.

Mrs. Tygrett's letter has been acknowledged and she has been advised of this referral.

Enclosure

APPROPRIATE AGENCIES

AND FIELD OFFICES

ADVISED BY DURING

SLIP(S) OF 2010

DATE 9/11/77

Note On Yellow Only:

Previous material concerning flying saucers furnished OSI. (62-8389h)

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Cases discussed

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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.