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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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SPACE VIEW 3 SUTTON, WEST VIRGINIA MONSTER MAY BE " COLLIER'S" ROCKET! Rev. S. L. Daw, Wmhlngton, D.C., lepresentatfve, IFSI I han per nally photographed flying saucers ax times and personally photogra.phed rht place whersite fron Mele \.I P .. The p 1Lture was not too good du to the mist from the mountams. The ohtetl that landed at Charleston, W I Virginia was desc ri bed as a large metal t, II , •hrow1nR off .t white light and after Ian, 1 , two small men m red emerged from .a tr.11 m the op 1nd climbed up a tree to look '>Und . Seeing people watching them, they ~ot t-, d; in 1nd took off. We can prove what r was : In the attempt to shoot rockets to the moon the re 1s a de\·1t e with the m tors on the wings and the body of the device is .i et r ro llcd .ipparatu which throw ff a .irge metal shaped disc which throws off a red , nlo• • rom the crn te r which when iTfiect< J coulcl..,easily be taken for some sort of a ,mall I ,11 T h s was descn txd in ( r's gazine of October 11 , 19 ~2 . ,rding to the W ashin.i;:r on D ew the monster seen at Sutton, West Virginia coul I the rocket dest nbed in Coll. m.ig u me The picture on the cover of the maga- zine , ws a sphert headed, w1 le-bo< d, t k-bd lied rocket craft pcwing out burning hydraz ne and nitric aci d as rt Imd }11 nd-enr on the moon . The West Virginia people ' to have seen · " An ob 1r- t estimated IO feet tall , four feet Wide a.t the bottom .u ..,. t • man. Tw, light fl , h om side to side, the mat: hine made a noise 11-.e f;,h c:~u1,ing, .1, h.irr ,1l ke .is ahout ." Sounds somev. h.it the same. T he United States may t p< 1th something that th pub!JC is not .iware ot and 1t 1\ doing its be t to keep lie age of r0tket ships is Just around the corner. CIVILIAN SAUCE I VESTIGA TION OF NEW ZEALAND C TAcn IFSB of the m Thq represe nt all 1 The committt .iz1nee ring, who 1 the Temtor .ii Alf Force, h t1on engine rani.: in pector. D I A tronorne r and en 11 e bee, pa rt 1 of M idenl seen Th C1vdi.in 7~ and as et up m N ew Zealand on October 1 ~. 19~ • ~ th existente of saucer~. It has no affiliation with , H to .iny son cty to which rt members rnJy helong Mo, udymg fl ying s.iucer reports fo r at least tive yea rs. .tstronorners, scientists, aviato rs, and the 11!.1'1 in the ,r ed f H . Fulton, a sergeant m the R.N .Z.A.F. .atta hed 10 , CSI of N Z, Mr R. J. La.van .. a member of f CSI of NZ ; M r. G H Gilmore, avia tudy mg for a science degree; and E. J. (,r .i.1t,er. an ,1. Aims of tht' , ommrttee .ar , orrespor ,HRl' h kindreJ bodae overseas, and to ulti - matdy find the on •in of flym an l 111 an on . M• H H Fultun, and Mr R La "" rt en m.& Jc- mem~r, of tht Internataooal ( ounL ii •I IF, H \X' l hope to e t.abl1,h <lat1orh "1th th" ''-" aety .and get a rep• II ht )' e..., Z~al.inJ C. I ,t:nl to m.ip ut N " Zealand ,howi ng all ,.,ultr, h,I\ c been ,i.izhttJ iry of <J t ,1,a.(h ang. A rnmplete repo rt he made an our next 1,,u,·. C I 01 , ..., Ze.dand the best o f Jue k di be a suness .
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