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.
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i' .' · fREo. J. EEK HOUT LL.o. 1\49, STADHOUDERSLAAN I I T~E' AA~GUE THE HAGUE, October 6th THE NETHERLANDS Dep1.rtmen~ cf Justice ,;,edera.1 Btrreau of Investigatio"1 Pennsylvania Avenue WA SH INGTON D.~. In the care of Mr Bailey r~ lRm 1246 Dear Mr Bailey, Excuse me please if I misspelled your name , but I never saw it in writing. On May 5th at 2 . 15 P.M. of this year I paid you a visit in the F.B . I.offices, where I told you details on ~ 9e_d§.in subject yo11 will surely remember . At tpe end of the conversation I .E,r,grn_1sseasse.d by since then, and as the subject has now become active in Euro::,e, I am really anxious to go a,'1ead with it, I have ofco11rse tr ied to check the theory on each aspect and while doine so I found various complementary as well as fundamental details. I have now reached the point however where I would like to discuss the who7.e w'"ith an ex')ert and! wguld ther~or cerla1nly auryr.eciate to know- whether I have to consider O.!:!!, a_g_reernent on comolete silence~§ still being valid and necessary or not It migh"""t be that you are too busy to be able to '2 write to me of that the authorities are not interested. As ) it is not my intention to bother you too much with it, i w~ll take it that t1;_,ere is no lonBe~a.EL_~cessity for silence on ~y part ~f I do not _!e~eiv~ any in~ot~ation to the contraryoy the end of this month. ~y ~his proposition I do not intend to force an issue bu.t I would like to discuss a subject like this with scientists friends of mine , which I cannot _do as long as I am bound b3t my promise to you. /" I I ., 1With very kind regards,
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.