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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.

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  • p. 13 …Director Ths Inspector General The Pentagon rashtngton 25, D• From: John Edgar Hoover, Federal Su bject…
  • p. 15 …lnvsattga~tona The Inspector General Deparnent of t he A1r Force The Pentagon Washington ?.51 D…
  • p. 25 …the Director of Special Tnuestigattons1 The Inspector General, Department of the Air Force, The Pentagon, Washi…
  • p. 30 …available to The Honorable, The Secretar y of t;he Atr Force , The Pentagon, Washtno ton…
  • p. 35 …the Director of Special Investigations, Phe Inspector General, Department of the Atr Force, The Pentagon, Kash…
  • p. 46 …c . ., and t o The Hono r abl e, of Defense, Th e Pentagon, »ashingto n…
  • p. 85 …he Inspector General Department of the Air Force, The Pentagon , ashington, D. C. Att: Mr. Gilbert…
  • p. 145 …Inveet1gatione The Ins~ctor General :De~tment of tha ld.r Force Tlle Pentagon ~ ash.ington…
  • p. 161 …o/ Special Inueattgattons The Inspector General epartment o • the Air orce The Pentagon ashington 25, D…
  • p. 178 …After I had written to the Pentagon about my invention., a rejection arrived. From Salzburg I…
  • p. 181 …ati gations The Inspector q•neral Department o/ the Atr Force 7'he Pentagon Washington 25…
  • p. 187 …r.oith ahe Honorable, The Secretary of the Air Force, The Pentagon, Waahington 25, D. c…
  • p. 202 …co~municating wtth The Honorable, Tho Secretary o/ the Air Force, The Pentagon, ashington 85, D…
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The f ollowing jnJormatton waa furnished to the
Atlanta ~ield Office o/ tht3 Bureau at 3: 45 A.M•. on
J uly 8, 1953, by ur. To 'cRce, ,,Atlanta constitu:tion
reporter.. ~r. UcRae stat~~ Hr. dwar d E• atcrs, 1855 •
Peach Tree Road, Northeast, Atlanta., Georgia, telephone
numbe r lgtn 9562, contacted him at the oflice o/ the
''Atlanta constttutton" and aaviscd ,a.s f ollows:
According to Waters, he and two other coapantons,
whi l e t r avelling in an a~ tomobile on Banthead Highway tn
the vicinity of Mableton, Georgia, encountered ~hrec ~mall
animals which the11 bel tevcd had land ed f rom a Jl11tng sauce r.
aters advised as he and his companion approached# the thr ee
aniMla started coking their way back to what was believed
to be a /lying saucer . According ~o tcrs, two of ,t;1re
animals escaped in the f lying aauc c r but tho third was
tilled when hit by ~he auto~obile tn which aters and his
conpanions were riding.
According to UcRa~, atere displayed the ani al
w1l.tch had been 'killed to hto at the II tlanta constitution''
newspaper offi c e. McRae stated the antnal dtd not r esenble
a n11thtng h e had ever seen befor..'fr. p· t £i-~~K~d as 'though
it belonged 'to thtt monltey fa mil'IJ.• • tu:co'rd-ihg 'to IJcRae, the
antraal was approztmatel~ 21 inches long, ,~q~ a r ather pointed
he d, large ears and p tnkiat a~inl tb ~ ~ 1
d a~ij't ed because of
t he early &orning ho~r ho u,ga unabl o loca te a sci entist
to e:i:az:itne t he animal, b:Jt he "didc ave-,-o;;.io 'oY, 1:;he lead trig
veterinarians of Atlanta, Georgia, eromtne it.
COMM - FBI
JUL 101953
MAILED 27
July 10, .1953
Director o/ Special Inueattgattons
The Inspector General
epartment o • the Air orce
The Pentagon
ashington 25, D. c.
Jo hn Eagar Hoover., Director
federal Bureau o/ Inve tigation
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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.