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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Serial 130

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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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AOE!JTS JIO'l'ES t Mr. A. O. Powell 11 a graduate or the ATiation Cadet Flying
Training Program. ha-.1.ng gradua.ted from Marnll l.l'ield , Alabama. With the
Class ot ,n. c. Since graduation.. Irr. Powell ha.a flo,m .for Ptll!. AJHrioe.n
Airway• and. at thi• date, h&a onr ~ , 000 oomm.and pilot houra to hla credit.
Mr . Powell appear, to boa cala, intelligent ind1Tidual, ~ot giwu t o
flights or tan.oy, or eaeilT •waT•~ by what he hae previoualy r~4 in the
ne..,.papere •• reg•rda report• or thi• tn,e. Jtr. Po,rell haa a rear ot publi
oity and eeemed h•e1tant to enn tell hia atory leat he beoo'IM tM objoot ot
ridicule. llz- Powell was queationed as to the poasibility that what he
aighte4 mi6ht have been a tow target, a pilot b&lloon, or a radioaonio device
uaed for meteorological purpose• • Kr Powell at&ted that he has aeen aumerou,
pilot balloona, radioaonic device• and tc,r targets, while on f l ight•J the
object obaer,..d on thi• flight defhi tel7••• •ot on• ot th••
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