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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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..- .' . fore. '7:L. off," hes: ,f:a Russians have nothing to do so-called • I saucers· I'll swear t(. "'"' 1 a stack of Bibles,' if you like. Sec ond, we. don't have any secret new t)"I' -es of aircraft that could have started all 1 ~his commo tion. Third, nobody, in ourc .pinion, has spotted space ships fro~ s ome_ othe_r planet. Fourth, everything our investl o-ators learned has been made available 0 to the publ.1c." T HE first saucer iro,cident occurred on the afternQ<''n of J une 24, 1947, when Kenneth Ar,nold, on a business trip for a Boise, Idatho, firm that makes 1 fire-control equipr ent, was flying his p..,~.i\'C•., .roe from ' .:::h~halis, vVashing ton to Yakima, \~ /ashmgton. The re fle;tion of a brigt 1t fl ash on one wing \ caught his eye. J- . l e turned and, at a distance he tho ught was about twenty miles saw what he took to be nine tail less ~ircraft hr ,ading toward Mount Rainier «T ._ _could see their outli~es quite \ : .•only against the snow," Air Force Intelligence quoted him as saying. "They flew very close to the mountain tops, directly south to southeast, down the hog's-back of the range, flying like geese, in a diagonal, chainlike line, as if they were linked together ... a chain of saucerlike things at least five miles long, swerving in and out of the high mountain peaks. They were flat ... and so shiny that they reflected fireworks display. Dr. Paulthe sun like a mirror." Ar Fitts, an Ohio State Uninold said he watched the saucers for three minutes versity psychologist who was for a time attached toand estimated their speed at ahout twelve hundred miles Project Saucer, considered this crowded condition inan hour. the holiday skies the resultAir Force technicians, consulted by newspaper- of mass suggestibility, the • men, said that any object same jumpy trait that caused Americans to seemoving that fast would be invisible to the nakeo eye at Zeppelins overhead during and after the First '\VorldArnold's estimated distance. The press scoffed at Ar War. "Our graphs ~how that saucer incidents alnold's story, and he was re sentful. "Even if I see a ways increase dramatically ten-story building flying after publicity," he has through the air, I won't since told me. "The sky, say a word about it," he de you know, has been a clared, and when he got hack to Boise he wrote a series of ar ticles about his experience for a mag azine called Fate. No sooner were the skeptical news paper accounts printed than dozens of people turned up with similar re ports. Another resident of Boise spotted a disc over that city, "a half circle in shape, clinging to a cloud and just as bright and silvery-looking as a mirror caught in the rays of the sun." Lieu- ": ' " --tenant G overnor Donal<. A ,1t.-~ .of Idabo, disclosed that .. \if": he had seen a comet-shaped uojec, l1ling over the western p.:trt of the state. It finally dipped below the horizon, he said. (Later on, the personnel of Proj ect Saucer decided that the Lieutenant G overnor had been looking at either Saturn or Mercury.) Four cops in P ort land, Oregon, saw a group of discs "wobbling, disappearing, and reappear ing." Reports of other phenomena having been seen in the skies appeared in the papers almost daily. Two Army officers at Fort Richardson, Alaska, reported seeing a spherical object flying through the air at incredible speed and leav ing no vapor trail; some fishermen off Newfoundland saw a series of aerial flashes, silver to reddish in color; a lady in Oregon watched a group of saucers spell out "P-E-P-S-r," and alerted her neighbors to the presence of foreign agents practicing a secret code in our skies; an Oklahoma City man saw a saucer "the bulk of six B-29s;" and a prospector in the Cascade Moun tains of Oregon saw six saucers in a group, banking in the sun-"round, silent, and not flying in formation ." On the Fourth of July, there were twelve reports of saucers in widely separated parts of the United States. One of these saucers, sighted at Trenton, New Jersey, was traced to a source of exciting visions from time immemorial, and its attrac tion is particularly strong in our jittery moments." FROM the beginning, the officers in charge of Project Saucer recognized a peculiar difficulty in their assignment. "H you look out the window and see something, how can I prove or disprove what it was if I didn't see it and you can't tell me much about what you page 64
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.