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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…
Number	Date	Time	Number of Observers	Reliability of Observers	General Area of Occurrence	Apparent Direction of Flight	Apparent Altitude	Course Horizontal to Vertical	Color	Train or Trail	Duration of Observation	Sound	Shape	Apparent Size	Apparent Speed	Blanner of wear
1	1943/19 Jan	2300	1	R	Point of impact on line between Brest and Liev	Almost vertical descent followed by "bouncing" to S 35° above Horizon Descending	Brilliant white 2-3 secs.	None Compare w/planet Venus on unusually clear night.
2	Latter part 1947	App. 2000	1	R	Vaughn, New Mexico 400' - 500'	Descending slowly in vertical manner	Bright white None	Round	Larger than basketball	Descending slowly	Exploded
3	1948/27 Jul	0835 0845	1	R	Albuquerque, New Mexico Dura-lumium reflected light None	Flat and round Stationary at times
4	4 Aug	0200 & 0300	2	Unk	North Powder, Oregon	MN to SE	5500'	Horizontal line	Green Softball	720 mph	Extinguished

LIGHTED:

*Reliability of Observers: VR - Very Reliable R - Reliable Unk - Unknown Reliability

**Evaluation: (1) "Green Fireball Phenomena"

(2) "Disk" or Variation

(3) Probable Meteor

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.