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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.
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••DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OFFICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION W AS HINGTON ZS, D . C. The follow::f.ng infoniat1on concerning A1r Force 1nvest1gat1ons of unusual aerial phenomena 1a submitted 1n answer to your request. In the Fall of 19, 7 tho U'lited States Air Force took official notice of reports of eo--call ed "f lying sauee1"8'1 because t he reports from the public indicated t hat the problem might be related to the Air Force responsibility for the air defense of t.be lbited Stat.es. On December ;o, 19"7 t.ho AJ.r Foree d.:treoted its Air Materiel Command., a.t Wright-Patterson Air Force Base~ Dayton~ Ohio, to set up a project 'to collect and evaluate all available facto coneerning "fl.yi.ng saucer" sighti.ngB. To perform this task the Air Ma~r14ll Cczmnantl obtained the services of civilian and military aatronOIQfrs, psycholo~ate~ electronic specialists, meteorologists, aeronautical engineers., and ~hyeiciste. ~ December 27, 1949, after 375 reported a1gllt.izl&3 had been tnvestiaated, the Air Force, with the concurrence of' the Arm:I and the Navy, announced the findings of the "fl.ying saucer" project. The evidence at that time ind!cated that the majority of the reports of unidentified flying objects could be accoWlt~d for aa misinterpretationa of "farious conventional objects, a mild fonn of byateria, meteorologioal phenomena, 11~ aberrations, or hoaxes. There r emained, hov~er , a number of unexplo.inad eightings., and the Air Force has continued it.8 1nveet1ga.t1ona i:nrumnich as it is an A1r Force responsi bility to identify and anal.yze aerial phenomena that could poesibl.J be a menace to the United States. Subsequent to December 19li-9, these investigations have been conducted aa a normal intelligence function, :-ather than a special project, by the Air Technical Intelligence Center, Wright-Fatterson Air Force :Base, l>ayton, Ohio.
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.