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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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.,. •,. 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. t 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.
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.