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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.
“Socorro, New Mexico”1 page
• •'l , . RE:· PAUL L . PEYERL INFORMATION CONCERNING in Vienna, Austria , sometime during late 1943 or early 1944. PEYERL also assumed the secretsi:ertaining to this aircraft were captured by Allied Forces . He said this type of aircraft was responsible for the downing of a t least one American B-26 airplane . He furnished the following fuel and engine data: " ... . Fuel mixture of N2H4O in Methyl Alcohol (CH3OH) rather than ' oxygen-holding ' mixture of hydrogen peroxide H2O2 in water . 7m 1,3m high two rocket motors ; smooth flow, rotary drive over 2,000 meters per second...• " PEYERL sai d he copied t his data from a board located in the hanger area. PEYERL asserted he was shot down by the British on March 14, 1945, after having been reassigned to the Western Front . He was held prisoner by the British in London and later in Brussels until his release in 1946 . He departed for the United States from Bremerhaven, Germany, on December 26, 1951; entering the United States in New Jersey on January 7, 1952, and was subsequently naturalized in Miami during 1958. He is presently employed as a mechanic at Eastern Airlines, Miami, Florida . He related he was born May 3 , 1924, in Austria . PEYERL stated he has withheld this information because he assumed the United States possessed it . He has become increasingly concerned because of the unconfirmed reports concerning a similar object and denials the United States has such an aircraft . He feels such a weapon would be beneficial in Vietnam and would prevent the further loss of American lives which was his paramount purpose in contacting the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). PEYERL reiterated he has the original negatives of both photographs. He said the shots were taken at a thirty second time exposure . This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI . It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. 2
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