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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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the FBI Army Intelligence officers
and police nu the-run.
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looked to them as well as to the
Arm4' gnd cl vllian office1·s1 just like
" :fl~n disc sbanld Jnok.
Tlleir hoax was exposed after As
sls"tant Police Chief L. D. McCracken
was tipped off that one cf the boys
knew something about the disc.
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to complete, was made from Rarts
of an old phonograpp. burneg-out
radio tu and other discarded elec
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dom: radio tubes, burned wires and
.@ste0foii gaia and sUYei:::.fil:llts.
Since the boys are juveniles. their
names were withheld. They will
not b~.lllil§ecuted, Chief McGr~J;l,en
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Page__l _ ___ 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.