Documents / Official release
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.
“The Pentagon”14 pages
• • ADOLPH DORNIG On January 12, 19.54, ALOIS PIVEC, 164 Hallstead Street, East Orange, NJ, appeared at th_;..Newark Office and advised that he had received a letter from one ADOLP~RNIG, Waidmannsdorferstr 80, Klagenfurt, West Austria, on about December 20, 1953. PIVEC stated that the letter requested him to attempt to sell a number of inventions, which he, DORNIG, had developed. PIVEC stated that the request was to contact Aircraft companies and Sewing Machine Companies in the United states an:l attempt to interest them in these devices. Accor~ingIVEC, DORNIG requested that no governmental ag~nciesto be contacted. p ated that the inventions, 1'hich DORNIG had developed were new type o ewing machine and a flying saucer. PIVEC statedJthat he came to this office because he felt that the flying saucer was of some importance in the national defense of this country. PIVW st~ed that he has never met DORNIG but that DORNIG was given his name ~'S brother, [!lITZ, who resides in oraz, Austria, and who is employed at Siemens-Hal~ke Belggier oasse 11, oraz, Austria. PIVEC stated that his brother workodwith DORNIG, at one time, and he believes that DORNIG is a chemist or some type of engineer. PIVEC stated that the contents of the letter seemed fantastic to him and that if the letter were not written in such an intelligent manner, he would have doubted DORNIG1S sanity. He stated that DORNIG claims to have sold a new principle of aero-dynamics, which made it possible to construct a practical flying saucer and, that DORNIG had developed a model that flies w.i.thout the usual hazards. According to PIVEC, the letter continues by stating that DORNIG has been in contact with other men through out the world, who have been attempting to develop the .saucer and that he has been the first to win real success. . t ~ t ~ BY way of background~~ stated that he was born in the vicinity of ..I,eoben, Austria in 1925 and aITived in New York City on March 29, 1952 from Bremerhaven, German:y-. He is employed at the Public Service LaboratoTY in Maplewood, NJ. \ On January 30, 19.54., OLGA PIVEC, lq4 Hallstead Street, F,ast Orange, NJ, appeared at the Newark Office and advised that she was the wife of ALOIS PIVEC• She stated that another letter had been received .from ADOLPH DORNIG, by her husband, ALOIS p!V]X!. She stated that her 1:msband did not want to furnish the information in this letter to the FBI• She stated that he was not aware that she was furnishing this information and wished to keep the interview confidential. • COPIES DESTROYED 2 7 v ~.ov 10 1964
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.