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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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. STANO.V,D f"0ffM NO, 114 • • • •.OffiCe•Memorandu " UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : MR. DATE: October a,.,.~ FROM V. P. KEAYf ~~ SUBJECT: OFLYING SAUCER$ Reference is made to an article which appeared in "Th w Yor~er" dated September 6, 19 , which is attached. ~!,'- Thi ticle which was written by D:Lnie ang contained inaccurate information regarding FBI inves gations, indi !..r.r__ cating that the FBI conducts certain inquiri s regarding flying saucers at the request of the Air Force. It is pointed out here that, although the Bureau did at one time conduct some investigations regarding flying saucers, a pr esent agreement ha_s been set up with the Air Force whereby the Air Force conducts all investigations pertaining to .flying saucers and the Bureau, upon receiving complaints of this nature, merely turns the com.plaints over to the Office of Special Investigations (OSI), which in turn t r ansmits the information to Air Intelligence. Air Intelligence has set up the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright- Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, for the purpose of coordinating and handling of research pertaining to /lying saucers. Inquiry was conducted in order to determine, if possible, the source for the information appearing in the attached article regarding FBI investigations. Lieutenant Colonel L. L. Free in charge of the Espionage Br anch, Counter - Intelligence Division, Office o.f Special Investigations, advised that no one in OSI has been contacted by Lang, and he suggested direct contact by the Bureau Representative with Air Intelligence to determine if Lang had been in touch with anyone i n that organiaation in order to gather information for his article. Col onel c. M. Young, Ezecutive Officer to Major General John A. Sam.ford, Dir ector of Air Intelligence,advised that Lang has not-90..TLt_acted.-G.erurr·al ~a!lt/_ord ' s _of_.f.:i,c.e. ~onel Young also telephonically contacted Captain Ruppelt of the Air Technical Intelligence Center, Wright- Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, on September 30, 1952. Captain -/r Ruppelt advised Colonel Young that they have never indicated in any way to Mr. Lang that the FBI has an interest in flying saucers. Captain Ruppelt stated that the FBI to his knowledge has never been called upon to fur nish reports on flying saucers. jRuppelt is under the impression that Mr . Lang made the story up ,~ or picked it up from some maga2ine or newspaper article sometime back. Both Colonel Young and Captain Ruppelt are thor oughly /\ W • familiar with Bureau policy pertainirrp ;o fl~ing ; a~~cei P,, ' ~' ?A)Jachments (2) RECOR!)ED - 116 ~ /) , (}i@tJ(& 919'2 \NDEXED • 11\l. " (j\
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