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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.
t.t,. August 5, 1952 SAO, San Diego BORDERL AND SCIENCES, RESEARCH ASSOCIATES San Diego, Cal1forni a; MEAD LAYNE, Director; MAX FREEDOM LONG, Director I zt?l-view of the current hysteria concerning the so-called 1'-fl_y1ng saucers", I thought that the Bureau might be interested 1n the .following in.formation concern ing the captioned organization . I am transmitting herew1th certain 11terature con cerning the captioned organization which was furnished to me by FRANCIS OHM, who operates the Businessmens Assurance Company in San Diego and who has his office in the same building housing the FBI office. It is of interest to note that on Friday, August , 1952, at approximately 12:00' noon, FRANCIS OHM as ked to set me urgently, which I did. As a member of the captioned organization, he advised me that they were having a meeting at 1 :00 PM the same day, inasmuch as they had been advise that they had some v~ry important information to discuss . He went on to relate that thro ugh t he means utilized by hta organi zation (which the enclo sed literature will reflect border s on the ocoult) , they were able to prognosticate well in advance the rece~t earthquake which occurred in Tehachapi, California. He advised that they have also been able to obtain the fol lowing information: 1. That a very severe tidal wave will hit the Pacific Ocean sometime in the not too remote future and that moat of the Japanese Islands will be washed away and disappear. 2 . That all .fishes with scales in Japanese waters will soon leave these waters for other destina tions, in view of the oncoming tidal wave . 3. That this tidal wave will wash away the Hawaiian Islands . 4. That the West Coast of the United States will likewise be affected by this tidal wave. 5 . That they prognosticated the appearance of a new island in the Pacific which was publ ished in the newspapers within the past week. r-~_f _ rv-c JFS:ha NOT RECOR D ED }4,J .;t1J 3 1952 • INITIALS ON OR!G!NAL 7 _ • -r----l7 9 \71 SE
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.