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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 007

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 205 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

  • p. 106 …Bender. ~, cc - New Haven, wtth copy bf tncom.tng and copy o'j' letter stgned by…
  • p. 108 …be located in Bufiles on the I.r. B. B. ; "Space Review" or Albert K. Bender .
  • p. 114 …Reaiew Copyright 1953 by A ltT K. BENDER VOL II, No. I Janu.i.ry, 19…
  • p. 118 …everyone. O ur Presi lent, M r. Bender, will rite the foreword with comments throughout by…
PACE MEW4
EDIT IAL
In I 92 C.Olumbus d'i overed a new after traveling tholl$ands of miles rou
the great expanse of unknown waters called • Atlanti< Ocean. It was a great adventure,
yet one that was laughed at, ridiculed, and evc:r roke of as a "folly".
Herc w a small group of men sc rchin3 ,or what lay beyond the known. endeavor
mg to unfold the mysteries of lands that wer not supposed to ex1 . All they had ere
three small hips laden with provisions that estimated would last the joum .
The seas were infested with monsters, ·he skeptIC said, and the world was flat
with a dropping off place. Columbus proved ' fallaue to be wront, when he bnded
in the West Indies.
The years d1re<.tly ahead of us 111 sec ht:r great adventure such as this. A
group of men wL!l usemble in a tertain d ated place, dunb into their ship, a 1p
vastly different than that of Columbu
cupants will shoot off into the \
time. Thu ship will be
of space to find ne
a rocket shop, and 1t
orlds, new pcoplet
oc-
and
ri,w frontiers .
They will be laughed at, they
th<. greatest "fo , on earth, but w1 l
become realitie automobile, t
mg of the atom are de
ltever!
be ridiculed , and the
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hole thing will be called
proven that impossibilines
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Tht my cries of space have 1 mate, most p<:orlt I .wh. One need not be
momer to gaze in awe at t t wh1CI unfolds beto,, eyes as we gau sky-
any clear night.
vastness of space i.
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SU$pa1
d1 ex a,n, even for astrono~rs . When distances
-n of it is simpler for k icn I the term "hght year, than miles . The
f celestial bodies n f like our own earth are unknown. The
re from millions on up. Bu t My r m just that-guessc .
ho make our home on ,1. 1 c,ri r of matter , the eyes of space, cannot be
h to think that intel11gen1 lite ex1\h only here. Those who believe that there
tor everything wh1th har1 ns, should agree th,1.t rhese m1!11ons of bodies m
Pe more of a purpo,l th.i. n 1u,t twinkling brightly on a dear night.
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