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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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1953
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FLYLJC SAUCERS, MR . TOM MCRAE , - ATLANTA COMSTITUTION - REPOHTER,
COMPLAINANT . THREE FORTYFIVE AM THIS DATE MCRAE TELEFHONICALLY FURNISiIFJ
FOLLO\-J!NG - FANTASTIC TALE - JI.SSURI NC THAT NEITHER HE NOR ANY Mt ·IBE'R
OF -lcoNSTITUTI ON- STAFF HAD BEEN DRINKI NC BUT HAD UI TNESSED TEIS
STORY. r1CRAE STATED EDWARD E. WJ\TERS , ONE EIC-l!T FIV.E FIVE PEACHTREE
RD , NE, TELE ELGI N NINE FIV[ SIX TDO , CALLED ON HI M AT NEWSPAPER OFF I C[
STATING HE ANDTW O OTHER COMPA~IrnJS WHILE TRAVELING I N CAR rn: BJ\NK-
HE./1.D 'HGHUAY ABOUT MABLETm~, C'A . EMCOUNTERED THREE SMALL MlIMALS UIIC:{
THEY BELI EVED HAD LANDED FRO~j sor1£ PL/\CL HJ FLYHIC SAUCER . 1·.AT£l.S
-INFORMED r1CftJ\E THAT AS THEY APPROACH.'.:D THE THREE OBJ ECTS SSTARTING
.!/'\KING THEIR WAY b/\CK TO WHA T HE BELIEVED A FLYINC SAUCER, THAT TtJO
OF THE 1\NI MAL S ESCAPED HJ SAUC.r::l, BUT THIRD ~-JAS KI LLED 1:JHEN HIT BY THEIR
AUTOMOBI L E . UA TERS DI SPL J\YED OBJECT OR ANIMA L TO MCRt'\E AT NE\JSPAPER
OFFI CE . MCRAE STATE D Af!IMA L DID NOT RESEfrBLE ANYT1U NG HE HAD EVER
SEI:N BEFORE BUT L OOKED AS IF IT BELONGED TO '10tlKEY FAMILY . ANirlAL
I1EASURED AND FOUMD TO DE APPROXHJATi:: LY TWENTYONE I IJCHES LONG, HAD
RATHER POINTt.D HEAD, LARGE EARS AND SK I N tJAS PINK I SH . DUE TO
EARLY MORN I NG HOUR :icf\AC UNABLE TO L OCt TE SC I LNTIST TO EXAM I NE
A:HMAL BUT DI D HAVE ONE OF LEADIJG VETERINARIANS THIS CITY EXAM I NE IT .- 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.