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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 010

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 184 pages · text from the file's own layer

This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section (62-HQ-83894, Section 10) holds UFO-related correspondence from 1966 to 1977. In a 1966 letter, Florence C. Dow of Goffstown, New Hampshire asked whether subscribing to the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America journal might link her to communists. J. Edgar Hoover replied that the Bureau does not evaluate organizations, and a copy of the journal is enclosed. Other items include a 1977 Air Force fact sheet on the end of Project Blue Book and a White House inquiry answered by the FBI, which said it had no jurisdiction over UFO sightings.

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.

  • p. 13 …Allen HYJltek, chairman of the department of astronomy at Northwestern University and a consultant to the…
  • p. 30 …The Air Force announced that it had commissioned the University of c o 1 0 r…
  • p. 85 …LiteratureBut since then the Air Force has commissioned the independent study by the University of Colorado…
  • p. 86 …National University of Mexico, when he travelled aboard an SANTA ANA. - A University of Colorado professor…
  • p. 92 …Representative of Colorado University, UFO research project. USA. B. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHERS . Knut Hammarskjold general director of…
  • p. 177 …University of Colorado entitled, "Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects;" a review of the University of…
  • p. 179 …Department of Commerce, Springfield, VA 22151. • Review of University of Colorado Report on Unidentified Flying Ob…
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( June 20, 19 721..
'I, I
THE PENTAGON
Washington, D.C. OCa.SA
6ear Sirs:
In approximately seven months or .January, 1972, certain copies 0£ top-secret
documents shall be sent to the New York Times as well as two other newspapers .
These documents are related t ~ and will be an ostentation 0£ t ~ involvement 0£ the
pentagon in the controversial 'U~ identified f lXiijq Obj_gc~ " or '£ l ying 7§.auc~r.!.'
subject. It will show that not only the U.S. Air Force was involved in UFO research
but the other military branches as well.
Analysis and the actual conclusions of the classic UFO cases shall be revealed.
This shall be accomplished by zeroxed documents and photographs that General
Wolfe had reviewed when he was head of the Army's UFO support program in the
Pentagon during the Eisenhower years.
Sorry, but it is concluded here that this is the best course to take because
we feel that the secret UF6 investigations are parallel in nature to the Times
Pentagon Vietnam controversy. If we are wrong in taking this action, time will
IJ-R£c.4
22 AUG 3 1971

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Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 184 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.