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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 SUB A

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 124 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

  • p. 85 …flying time, and co-pilot G. W. Anderson reported a "flying saucer " ;with windows cm the…
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it as a bright, silvery disc, travel
ing at 10,000 feet.
"It was clearly visible-and
then it wasn't there.'' I
The FBI here was noncommittal.
In Milwaukee, Wis., the FBI said
it was "not interested" in what ,
,appeared to be a circular saw,
Jrigged with a few wires, which the
Rev. J oseph Brasku said crashed 1
into his yard at Grafton, Wis. He
admitted it probably was a joke,
but was holding the disc for FBI's
lattention. ,
Atomic experts in session at 1
Lake Success, N. Y., did not dis-
c,uss officially the flying saucer
Fl-ying Sauaers Traced
To Wife's Pitching Arm.
Pittsburgh, July 7 (IP).-Ma!
persons have seen the mysterio
ying saucers," but Conni
unbar, 35, knows the source o
e ones he saw. 1
Dunbar, who said he was
m ck by saucers J hrown by his
wife, Mrs. Bessie Dunbar, was
granted a divorce today by Judge
Harry H. Roward.
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reports, but made no secret of
their interest. They were reported
as "baffled."
Not so was·a 34-year-old watch-
1maker in Chattanooga, Tenn., who
1said he invented the flying saucer
in 1943 but "got tired of the run
around" when he tried to peddle
it to the Government or an air
craft concern. His model was
powered with a rubber band.
A $1000 r eward was posted in
Northbrook, Ill., "for the captur e
of a flying disc-or t he true ex
planation of the phenomena." The
offer, made by E . ,J. Culligan, is
made "solely through an interest
in science."
A theory that the saucers might
be artificial satellites came from
the British physicist Prof. A. M.
Low. The artificial satellite, he e~
plained, might. be created by un
known scientists and could serve
many purposes, such as deflecting
television or radar beams.
Lester P. Barlow, a Stamfori
onn., inventor, said he believ
e discs are jet-propelled missil .
eing manufactured for the Nav
y the Martin Airci-aft Co.,
!altimore.

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