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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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SAUCERS IN THE NEWS
MA, .-,G u Ez, PuERl o Rrco, Oct. 3, 1952-
"ltrang c: objed s were sighted by t o per•
·;ons in Map guez on O ct. 3, th y were
1 ruirn1g East and were red in rnlo r. It was
.,hor.t 10 · 30 p.m. when they were sighted .
NoH\\'AY AND SWED EN , Oct 13, 19 52-
Dun ni-: October the Norwegian Govern•
ment startd that a strange object resemb
li!1g a sauter landed on N orwegian soil.
( r( rrn 10 experts are cl.u rning that the de
\ 11 c:, .ire of Ruman origin, and the des-
ript ion given by Norway fits the descrip
' , gn·en by Ge-rm, 1 experts. Stockholm,
) ·t:de n, has al ~ en sighting strange
ob1ects
MELBOURNE, A L JRALIA, Sept. 13, 19P
- A young worn sighted a noisele,,
grn n ball flying tO( t ast to be a plan e or .l
rnett·or She: s,nl melled li ke a rotten
egp.
5Tl 'TTGAR T Nov. 1, 195 2 -
At the re, <" i!, of the third Int
1t1onal A\ r al Cong ress in C
,.my where 200 nt ists fro m l 2 c
tne, g athered the ted that sauce
not from Mars or any other planet
sa , the, art me rely optical anJ
lu I , .
NEW YORK - A terr th, 1r
place over .l ,mal l area. of
'J'.Y., which b e win w .
r,l kt ·valks and gc:neral
ni c. I were no pl .i ne. ar nd
duled at that time, 0 , 19'1 '
ERN ... nnNAL AIRPORT, N fw You.: ,
I 9'\2- A blue flame fl ashed o tr
ia.l Airport at 7: 33 p.m . It
I-like obj ect. H ayden Pi neu -
1 stated it may have th<-
a meteor.
] , t 1, YORK, ENGLAND. '0.
I Y [ uring exe rcise " Mainhr A F
p1l i hted J wh ite object ;1 : I 000
feet fhe ob1 ect was silver m rnl nd
circular Ir m,11nta111ed a slov. fo rward
,pl"t'd before b<.!(lllnr ng to dt nd , sv. ing-
111 11kt: .1 pcndu) u!' It foll o -. nl 1 , · air
" It. revolved 01 own .i.x, , .1 1 nes
.tnd then took r
W ASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 16, 1952- 'fhe
Navy announced that it launched r0t
from ant balloons, high aoove the No h
Geo etic Pole, and sent them to .ilt1-
tudes o .lbout 40 miles. The balloons were
as ta.It l 0-story building.
PARIS, hA NC F., Oct. 7, 195 2 - A flying
.iucer was sighted over Southern France
y two Air France p ilots.
WESTE RN KOREA FRONT, Oct. 29, 1952
U. S. troops saw a half-dozen mysterious
i'ark- throw ing "cartwheels" over the we~
ern front of Korea. They were as the eye
-ees, 18 inches in d iameter, moving ,n a.
I 5-f oot circle.
GA Ii I AC, Soi 1TH O F FRANCE, Oc-t 29,
19~2 For the -;econd time in two weeks,
)Q townspeople of G a.iliac saw a ~nes of
~ hite ci rcular objects, slightly • o llen at
•he center, pinn in across t, they
"ere flytng I f ion of t ere
wouped ar d hing that looked
like a ,1t1ant 8ymg ogar. As the objeds
passed overhead they let fal l a. rt of
)tring of bright h e threa.ds, which set-
tled g • (', and telephone line
W hen • p t ried to ptek them up,
they m..J li ke Ke. A police officer who
pKked 1 , 111w of the thread said : "It
looked 11 <" g l.1 s wool and it melted away
.ilmost a~ .oon ,ts ,t was touched ."
OLORON , FRANCE, Oct. 17, 1952- About
.1 dozen people. including a schoolmaste r,
aw flying saucers surrounding a long cigar
li ke object flying through a clear sky at
.1bout 6,000 feet .
NEW ZEALAND- The d ippings and stor
ies from New Zealand are swamping our
offite and .ire so nume rous that we must
de\ote a whole pa~e to them in our April
,sue.
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f 1/ ,, 1hn l',. ple.1•t' 11 nle to JFSB
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