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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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'. nn the retina and moviI1g as the eye ITIO\cS. • .. Other elements of tht: u.,,roblem were studied by such men as Dr. George Valley, a nuclear physicist at the Massa chusetts Institute of T echnology; staff members of the research firm of Rand Corporation; an assortment of physicists and aerodynamicists who specialize in the study of the stra tosphere and the •space beyond it; and the electronics ex I perts attached to the Cambridge Field 't'Station. T hese men were all searching ,•for physical rather than psychological explanations, and some fairly strange ,•' ,theories occurred to them-the possibil I ity that extraterrestrial animals were ' Aying into our atmosphere, for example. l' ( o data turned up to support that ar :resting idea.) The theory that the sau cers were hostile aircraft was carefully studied and rejected. "The perform ances of these saucers not only surpass the development of present science but the development of present fiction-sci ence writers," one scientist noted. The specialists also considered and rejected the concept of discs capable of riding the air on beams or rays of some kind. They even speculated on whether the anti gravity shield that H. G. \Velis thought up for his novel "The First Men in the Moon" would work; it wouldn't, they decided. T he supposition that interplan etnry craft were whizzing in at us was also discredited, despite its popularity with laymen. Space ships, the scientists thought, would have to be so large and un wieldy that they couldn't possibly zig zag as frivolously as the reported saucers did. Besides, a space ship, regardless of its size, could not, in the opinion of these men, carry sufficient fuel to remain for any length of time in the earth's dense atmosphere. The scientists noted, too, that the supposed spacemen showed a re markable lack of interest in the rest of the world, being, it would seem, almost unanimous in their desire to see A merica first. "The small area covered by the disc barrage points strongly to the belief that the flying objects are of earthly origin, be they physical or psycholog ical," one of the scientists reported. From the report turned in by the astronomers, I learned that they, in ad dition to seining out comets, meteors, bolides, and achondrites from the stream of objects people were seeing in the skies, had also thoughtfully con sidered our planetary neighbors. The old question of the possibility of life on f OA STORE Nt AR Mars took on a new urgency, and a new WRITE HAYMAK ER$ 8Y AVOH, [ corollary: If there arc living creatures • 1 WEST 3HH ST, H EW YC on Mars, would they be capable of TOllt S l:NO CHl:CK OR MONCY OltOUt 011111'.Cl"LY pap;e 75, 76 fbuilding space ships? The astronomers
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.