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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Serial 403

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 3 pages · text from the file's own layer

This FBI headquarters file record, serial 403 in file 62-HQ-83894, is undated and contains the dust jacket text of Gray Barker's book They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers, published by University Books of New York. The jacket says three men in dark suits silenced leading saucer researchers. It describes Barker as a Clarksburg, West Virginia film booking businessman who began investigating in 1952, when a saucer reportedly landed near his home. It also notes that he publishes The Saucerian.

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. 2 $3.50 They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers by GRAY BARKER One by one, the…
  • p. 3 GRAY BARKER (continued from front flap ) behind-the-scenes chronicle of civilian saucer research. It is…
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Cases discussed

  • The Flatwoods Monster 1952
    1952 when one of the most astonishing ones allegedly landed near his home in West Virginia

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Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 3 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.