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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.
,. S'r,AN.OAR•() FORM NO. 64 •Office Memoranduni • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT DATE: August 8, 1952TO : MR. R. T.:., HARED Irg-- Tolson_ _ La.Od.__ cleu__FROM : _7F. DOWNI G~ Olavln__ :.lchola__ SUBJ~Cef ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION WRITTEN kosen__ ERMAN LANGTTAGE RECEIVED BY NCINNATI ENQUIRER" PERTAINING FLYING SAUCERS 11 SECURITY MATT"R - X Reference is made to a letter from the Cincinnati Office date~ August 6~ 195'2 , submitting an anonymous letter in German concerning I so- called "Flying Saucers . 11 Attached are 7 copies of a translation of this German material ~AA~t~ prepared in the Cryptanalysis- Translation Section. ,, y--. ~ • . a No r eply has been made by us to the August 6, 1952, ·letter .frqm Cincinnati. RECOMMENDATION: That the Domestic Intelligence Division review the Cincinnati submission and accompanying Bureau translation, for appropriate handling, noting particularly a suggestion in the last I,,aragraph of the Cincinnati letter to consider makif!g this informati~ available to other Governmental Agencies . I J X)t.~ • Q 62-83894 . "'K~ ~ " .'i,1 (,, ;,_ J'Jti"?j- ~ -..:..t.-l;b- [wr- rm:jen \ r,- &~~... \~ Attachm~ 7~ NC\, /}( \ L; ( G 2v • ~a 58 SEP 2 1952 '(J f.}(•• 73 J
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.