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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 010

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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.

  • p. 11 …In Denver, Terry Datz, 19, ·• UniversJty o( Denver stu- Spaur aatd the Unesotthe~ dent, said he…
  • p. 87 …is not allowed to discuss the sightings. Terry Clark, president and general manager of radio station…
120 ufo contact
The 23 feet of colour film
was exposed from a speed
ing train travelling from
Mannheim to Frankfurt in
West Germany.
These still photographs are
taken from the screen pro
jection of the 8 mm colour
film of september 7th 1966.
Taken with a REVERE 8 mm
cine-camera , automatic 30
mm powerzoom lens, by
Fred Steckling of Alexandria,
Virginia , U.S.A.
This aerial " armada " of
UFO's is shown in impress
ive formation in the cloud
less sky.
Shown to photographic ,
experts of NASA.
Of the film, Pentagon UFO
spookesman said : " This is
the best film I've seen yet! "
ufo contact 133
" MANY TIMES I HAVE SEEN FLYING DISCS
FOLLOWING AND OVERTAKING MISSILES IN
FLIGHT AT THE EXPERIMENTAL BASE AT WHITE
SANDS , NEW MEXICO , WHERE , AS IS KNOWN ,
THE FIRST AMERICAN ATOM BOM B WAS TRIED
O UT." CO LON EL MAC LAUGH LI N.
Missile expert.
(Statement in 1949.)
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29 sight U FO's over W hite
Sands Range
by Dorrance Guy.
A lamogordo , N.M. - At least 29 White Sands Missile
Range personnel were eyewitnesses to one or more
Unidentified Flying Objects between 10.30 and 11
a.m. Thursday.
News concerning the UFOs has been cutoff by
orde rs from the Pe ntago n.
A ll service personnel and civilians working for the
services have been forbidden to discuss the sight
ings.
An investigation is under way at Holloman Air
Force Base, N.M ., with Maj . James Stephens , UFO
officer, in charge. He, too , is not allowed to discuss
the sightings.
Terry Clark, president and general manager of
radio station KALG , Alamogordo , said the UFOs first
were spotted near Ruido so, N.M., then went near
Hol loman AF B, the n south toward Orogrande, N.M .,
and then disappeared over the Sacramento Moun
tains.
Info rm at ion o ffi cers at H o ll oman AFB and WSMR
were contacted by Cl ark and he was told the Flight
Safety Office at Kirtland AFB at Albuquerque , N.M .,
would handle the investigation. Ki rtland would make
no comment exept that all information would have to
come from the Pentagon .
Clark called the assigned number at the Pentagon
and was told that no information was available.
Capt. Frank J. Morris , di rector of information at
Holloman AFB , Saturday night said that Maj . Step
hens is handling the investigation. He said the re
sults would be sent to Wright- Patterson AFB , Ohio,
and from there would go to the Pentagon . He said
no informatio n wculd be re leased except through the
Pub lic Information Office under the Secretary of the
Air Force.
Neith er WSMR nor H ol loman AFB personnel has
any authority in the case.
Clark said eyewitnesses, when they could be ident
ified , would not allow use of their names beca:ise
of the Air Force regulation .
However, these witnesses estimated that the " silv
ery discs" were flying at an altitude of " 20,000 to
25,000 feet" and moving at a speed of " approximat
ely 2,000 miles per hour."
There were several Air Force planes in the air
over WSMR at the time of the sightings. While it
took a few minutes to transfer from Army to Air
Force communicat ions, the pilots were notified of
the UFOs. They circled around , but none of the
pilots was able to see anything unusual.
Missile firings at WSMR were checked . There were
none at this t ime. There was little c loud cove r duri ng
the half hour invo lved and , at this time of day, it
would be impossible to see a meteor. The ob j ects
were moving much faster than a balloon .
One WSMR individu al said the UFOs were tracked
on radar. There is no accu rate estimate of the
number of objects spotted . There may have been
one - may have been more.
There is no indication when the Pentagon will
release any information on the sightings - if ever.
From: The El Paso Times , El Paso, Texas.
Sunday, March 5th, 1967.
COMMEN T : We understand from our source of in
form ation that this news item appeared only in El
Paso, Texas . Inquiries showed that the Air Force
had stopped t he incide nt be ing re ported in th e
national newspapers. T o quote the above news report:
" There is no indication when the Pentagon will
release any information on the sightings - if ever. "
UNQUOTE.
And so, Iife goes on . . .
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UFO's over British Columbia
On April 14th, 1967, at about 8.05 p.m., Ian Squire
and Scott McNeil! (two boys aged about 14) were
on their cycles going along Cedar H ill Crossroads,
Virginia, B.C . They crossed over Cadboro Bay Road
into Upper T errace Road (Up lands res id ent ial
district) , and proceeded down into Ripon Road as
far as the Circle. From there , they saw a red and a
green light hovering over wh at they thought was
probably the area of the Upland s Golf Clubhouse
on Cadboro Bay Road . They were on their way down
to the Yacht Club, and didn 't stop to investigate,
however. The two lig hts were not blinking, and
seemed stationary (but it mu st be remembered that
on their cycles, they were moving , which prevented
their being certain about this last point). The sky
was dark and starry: there was hard ly any wind at
all.
At 8.10 p.m . t he same evening, i.e . f ive or six mi n
utes later, Ian Squire 's grandmother (name withne ld
at witness' request) was driving uphill alo ng C ad
boro Bay Road southwards towards the northern
gates into The Uplands district, when suddenly she
saw a red and a green light over the roadway, i.e.
higher than the height of a very tall tree . T he wit
ness, who is person ally known to me through her
daughter and grandson, unfortunately did not stop
to investigate. Instead, she continued on right under
neath the object which , she said, seemed to be
spread entirely over the width of the wide roadway.
The two colored lights seemed to be shining only
forwards , and to be from 4 to 6 feet from the extrem-

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