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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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J edgar Hoover J.B.J. 2727 Maryland ave Baltimore 18 MD July 28-1952 OFLIVING SAUCERS Dear Sir, I would like to submit a theory that may lead to a solution of what the flying saucers really are - these objects could be lights. Caused by Radio Television Beams illuminating moist vapor, not unlike phosphorus on rain-soaked wood in certain seasons - the northern lights "Aurora Borealis" have manifested themselves for years, setting up Electro Magnetism and Earth potential which distorts normal telegraph communications. The lights are somewhat like a fan + can be seen as far south as Equator. It is my opinion that flying saucers are electrical induced currents onto a space (small clouds) and causing it to glow - this cloud being charged electrically and a magnetic polarity being same as the interceptor it can never
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.