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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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• • - •• · came from Russia. The Air For said: "To date there has been no ta • '~ying Saucers' gible eviclence which would su port a. theory that,anY of the in· cidents are attributable to activity of a foreign nation. On the otherdn Secret list hand, there is no evidence to deny The Air Force disclosed yes- categorically such a possi~ili_ty. . -~ . "Many of the reported mc1dents teldaY that secrecy restnct1ons have deflnite!Y been determined , have been clamped on _certain to be meteoroligical balloons or • incidents connected with the mys- natural celestial phenomena. How• • terious "flying saucers" seen in ever, there are some incidents ~ -. ported by reliable and compete the skies last year. observers which are still une • At_the s_ame time, the Air Force plained." admitted 1t is impossible to "deny - ------ categorically" that the weird ob· ject.s originated in the Soviet Union or some other foreign na• tion. A statement declared that some incidents linked with the "flying saucers still are unexplained." A spokesman said some of the "in explicable" incidents have been placed in the "classified" category; denied to all persons except au thorized military personnel. e statement was issued as t Air Force continued to re c e inquiries arising out of a c mentator's broadcast. The c mentator said the "saucers" This clipping is from the evening edition of The Washington Times Herald ~- ~-);Y' Date
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 124 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.