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This FBI file, 62-HQ-83894 Sub A, collects newspaper clippings on flying saucers that the Bureau filed between 1947 and 1960. They include July 1947 reports of discs over Portland, Idaho, Seattle and Washington, and a Grand Blanc, Michigan pizza maker's complaint about his moon photograph. There are also clippings on Reinhold Schmidt's November 1957 space ship claim at Kearney, Nebraska, the Coast Guard cutter Sebago radar sighting, Carl Jung's 1958 remarks, and Captain Peter Killian's 1959 airliner sighting.
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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1/li.:;,1'racked 21 ltlinutes 011 Rad:u- ·• '°r~ons ZRosen ____
Tamm ____
Trotter ____
Nease _ ___
Tele. Room _ _
U.S.Cutterh1Gulf of Mexico Reports
Sighting Mysterious 'Object' in Sliy Holloman ___
Gandy ____Associated Pre., f:av€ling at an estimated 1000 of light with no definite -~hape,
l A brilliant mystery object niles per hour, International 1r esembling the planet Venus."
was reported sighted yester- ews Service reported. How-/Shockley said there were no
day in southern skies by a ve1·, at one poi nt, the object vapor trails or any other in
Coast Guard cutter. even as ppeared to remain stationary clications as to the object's
Air Force special investigat•j and hover above the waters be-}method of propulsion. One y. ~~rs c~ec_ked a flurry of ear- ror e it resumed Its erratic ,estimate of its height place{!
Iler,, s1mllar reports. 1flight. it at 2000 feet.
The Co~t G1:1ard cut~er Se- [The cutter's captain, Cmdr. [G I e n n Nor t hcutt. Willis,
bag?_, crmsrng m th~ Gulf of1c. H. War ing, said the objC'ct /Okla., r~nch~r and member o
:\lex1co_~bout 200_miles south first ap. peared on thP. ship's the Un1vers1ty of Oklahom Jof _Lou1s1ana, r_ad1oed th_at_ an ,.dar screen as a "good trong Board of Regents, reported
obJect resembling "a br1lha.ni ' that on Satur day he and fiv
planet with a high rate of p" at..5:10 a. m. and w s lost others had watched '·a bril
\ speed" \\ as seen for about • a northerly direction t 5:37 liant. mysterious light tha
three seconds at 5:21 a. m. . m. ,looked like the planet Venu
(CST). ,, . LJn this time, the slle . netwo of the Ail· Defens
( I1arters that the object w Se YSTERY, A6, Col. 3
Wash. Post and ~
Times Herald
Wash . News _ ____
Wash. Star ______
N. Y. Herald _____
Tribune
N. Y. Journal-_____
American
N . Y. Mirror ______
N. Y. Daily News ___
N. Y. Times _____
Daily Worker _____
The Worker ______
New L eader _____
Date - A"''+.DH,1,1-• _____
•w vv 6 1957 Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 124 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.