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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.
•TRUE COPY Jackson Minn Aug 2, 1952 J . Edgar Hoover Fede r al bureau of Investigation . Washington, IJ. c. IJear Mr Hoover: I don ' t know if you analy2e arti cles so will send you a sample of (something that looks like tinsel) because my uncle found it in a pasture in a r ound pile , underneath of it, it looks as tho the clover was burned . & there are 3 similar patches which are burned in a triangle form . Last Sunday Morning the Neighbors Wife got up to get a drink of water & happned to see a steady white Light circling thei r farm, but didn ' t pay any attention to it. Than Sunday morn . when my uncle went to get the cows, he saw this stuff shining in the Sun light. It couldn't of been dropped out of a plane as it was loose & not in a container & the nearest road is about a j mile from the pasture & now we are wondering what it is . So would l ike to have you analyze it & let me know. Sincerely yours, /s/ Wm Hoffmeye r
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.