Documents / Official release
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.
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--------"" \ t4 JUN~961J > ,Memorandum TO DIRECTOR, FBI FROM SAC, MIAMI (62-0-11328 ) ~ 0 SUBJECT: PAUL L. PEYERL INFORMATION CONCERNING A review of the Miami indices revealed information reflecting subject appeared at the Miami Office on July 24 , 1959, and \d.unteered to return to Austria as an intelligence agent. His expressed motivation was to do something to repay the debt he felt he owed the United States . He was afforded the Washington, D. c. Headquarters address of the Central Intelligence Agency and told his inquiry should be directed 1tBre . Also, on July 4, 1961, he appeared at the Miami Office and gave an incoherent story of recently meeting an individual who asked him to kill his mother . PEYERL appeared to be somewhat bewildered and continuously gazed away from the• interviewing Agent. During his most recent visit to the Miami Office, PEYERL seemed genuinely concerned about the existence of the object he allegedly photographed during November, 1944 . · He exhibited no emotional nor mental disorder and appeared to be rational . In view of recent publicity afforded UFO sightings, some apparently by responsible sources, this information is submitted to the Bureau for consideration of transmittal to the u. s . Air Force .
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 184 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.