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This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section, part of file 62-HQ-83894, gathers flying saucer correspondence and memoranda mostly from 1952, with some from 1954. It includes a Savannah River Plant sighting teletype, Hoover replies that send public letters on to the Air Force, a San Diego report on Borderland Sciences, and a laboratory exam of the scoutmaster Desvergers' cap that found no residue. It also covers instructions to refer disc reports to OSI and a 1954 Cincinnati matter involving Truman Bethurum.
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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" C,OPY : fcr t TO : lffi . A. , . BELMONT Dt_E : December 5 , 1 52 FROM: V. P . KEAY ~UBJ...,C ... t) PROPO.SED 3TuDY ON THE 11FLYING SIDJ(,..t!,RS 11 PHENOMEhA ; L1TELLI 1 ,_ (,,:., ADV .LS )RY COb..1•1L'.1 TEE Pursuant to instr~cti~ns , Su,ervisor M.W. Kuhrtz of t~e Liaison uection attended the Intelligence Advisory Lommittee (IAC) meeting on December )1 , 1952 . ~one of the ugenda i terns are of direct inter·e t to the Bureru ; however , ::)r . F . M. Chadwe J. , centrtl Intelligence Agency (LI\) , directvect ion with the 1~ir Force to determine vhe deta... ls of t us latter report . As a result of the above , -i;he 't' ilit&ry mcmb rs sum;ested a lo7:csl apnroach wnich would call or a gr0up sciEntists to ~eke &)f stud;y 1f the new 11 saucers 11 data in an effort t o identify the nhenomena . If 2n identifica"(;.:on cun Je L-de by t.he -,c . -11.tis ts f nd it can be dett-I' rr:ined thrt the "sauc, "S 11 Ere a scir ..tific develoDment , "(;hen IAC should determine a furtheI' course of action for t~e u.~. 0 vernment . It was further sug e sted that the IAC shou.d onl: c01cet'n itself wit, t.1is m~tt r on the basis that a compet0 nt sc:entific _;roup might deter ine the: "e· " saucers" to be a scientific develonrt1ent unde • the control of our enemy Dr . Ch1;J.d•rnll wvs directed to drtft a oaoer on this uroblem for IAC c nslder·tlon . Unon recc·~t of t~is dra~t , anDroorirte Bureau re corr.mendations will 'be mE de nr•ior to IAC an....,r, v 1 . ACT 'r : Liaison will obtt.in the deta:_1s of the "flying s& tcers 11 observ•ti n :n Afr.:ca from t~ Air Force . · I f MWK : lw 61,,-': 53 FEB 161~31
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 205 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.