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
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Do.te: Jiau 18, 1954
To: Director oJ Speolal Inv,ati gations
The Inspector q•neral
Department o/ the Atr Force
7'he Pentagon
Washington 25, D. c.
From: John Edgar Hoover, Director
Federal Bureau o/ ~nueattgation
Subject: FLTING SAUCERS
'J/18CELLAJJEOUS - INFORll,A TION CONCERNING
q I 3J'i:Rff_~RfigD-20 There is attached a cop11 o/ a memorandr,1'! dated
April 12, 1954, captioned "Adolph Dorntg" which contains
information /urnished to the Newark o//ice oJ th~a Bureau
bu Aloia Ptveo and hta mi/e, Olga Pivec, both o/
, 14s Hallstead Street, East Orange, New J,~seu. There ts
also attached a translation trom. the German language oJ' the
parts o/ the two letters .fur nished by~Piuec and hta wi/e
to the Newark o//1,ct1.
The Jiles oJ thia Bureau /0,il to rej'lect that
any tnvesttgatton has been conducted bu tht,a Bureau o/
Adolph Dorntg, Alois Pivec, or Olga Pivec. In utew o/
the information set forth in the attached memorandum dated
April 12, 1954, and the translation o/ the parts oJ thB
letters re/erred to heretn, no tnveati ~atton ta con~emplated
by thia Bureau tn this matter.
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Xttention: Criminal Division
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MAILED 27 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.