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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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DATE JJt!7 119 7
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F ederal agents ye erday in-
vestigated a letter to _the Exam-
iner describing Russian super•
sonic atom-~ered planes re-
sembling t~E!--"fly i~ aucers.". •
A top-fhgh1 ~I c sc,eii'bst
to whom the-It""xp.miner referred
the Jetter said 1t was "not all
nonsense.'' a.,pd I suggested the
matter be lu1~4 over to the FBI.
The Jetter writer said he gotj
the informat"o_n from an officer
•aboard a Ru an lan~er recently
in ELoA·s TAJ1g ces az!Por.s-J
scri ~ radioact ive gd 1ds in ! he
tr~llt~ whef~·rd.."' iimal.s ~nd
At c ic, s e
even worm , . .A
The plane . d er· ed 1',Jl"the
Russian to thfl . ' areaonly
18 inches thick, with a { J n(!y-
ed outline and n9 propellers..
1 sh~e pilot }lcs on his .stomach,
he Russian .said, and i.s artifi•
t !ally cooled .Blfa!n~t tH'e heat de-
c Joped by a+t-R'ictio'i.
ve "'fhe outer surr~,' e o!, the
Jane is hiptlY .;6h~h~d, the
P •ter i,ald the Russian told
"'._fl "Both upper and lower
~;'faces are c~n".ex, like a
iant Jens. Th_e lifting fore~ is
g tirely diffei ent principle
;:;: abou( . '10 yeal's. alo
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011g 1mpulih~h41 pa.peis aam t • nd developed
"usslan chen s R 1 ,
"recently a.tone ?f uss as re•
carclJ Ja.bo~·iitorie1. d oulY l'')l:nergy is req1 ;effY Is~..,. .
c irnbil'I~, hut 11:1 ; ,;:,. thll :,i .
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-...-. ""l'i:>orts ?f- lhy' tJ~·
ed off sh~ '):)ly m
·e~ area ,y1'jstcrday am
aid t hey ha~ r cceiv_'d
ca!, _ about, them m the city
county sinl:"e Saturday. I
Leonard Posella. 14J _}Jf ~7
• . y drive, 11 ·\ ed a ll';;1g:;'!,_l'T1X-"-=
po of 20 near Grif flarlc going
no we!'t t 500 feel. ..d s s::iid I hi:lv
or I~ :: ==x:~•:;:c ::,-::: = r~
were round and ~ t,•ery "with
Th. e-_wril!?r of the s tra_nge !~_!· their noses pointing up·Nard," a1
ter said he met the Russian ott1- he watched them foe tii,ree
cer in Wilmington \ltld, because \nl'mvt=::. -
• he wanted to hear about Russia, __. _ .
. stroyed all life on its way.
1 ~ "The cloud m a y be controlled .
om land, from a plane or
JR U5SJ!!sCT111
' t h~~~~i!!'; ~;~:ere!:~ :iment, a
violent storm blew the cloud
f ar north into the tundra, bu t
before It .dissipated it de-
Russian officer to anothet· dinner, ,
D but when he came the second
The Rus • he said, also d time his tanker was leaving unex-
.b d expet·lments with co ·1pectedly and he could only say
, very o htt,·e
• bomh.''
On thr other url, he decried
the efforts of some g!'oups who
take advantage of "all this flying
disc talk'' to stir up suspicion of
Rus~i1!'ersonic airplanes."
The writer said he asked the
good-by.
The nuclear physicist consulted
by the Examiner said it was dif-
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!lcult to appraise the value ol
tl~e ~et~erl ~ecause of,,thq writer's
ec mca 1gnoran~e.
''The.._[_e~ 11n1>l31 ng that
the Russians woulUn' us~ the
ittom bomb It thel· 111 1t ts'
~~•HIP T hP Ru11 111·ould
like murh t hP
The Examinrr h:id lv.·o mon,
ppod<; ~f flyrn~ di:,ci; y -;t<'rday.
tt••d Dnrt11;P or i::lR ~ 'l'it•h l "·. r . . --
1, , ~v,·nu,, !-\111d tw was in \\ •st:
I,"" P,111< at 12 02 p. m. 'lwn
saw one flying westwai at
00 to :JOOO feet. He said it vas
silent, round and shiny and was
not an airplanr.
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Mr. Tolson___
Mr. E . A. T amm_
Mr. C l egg___
Mr. Glavin- - -Mr. Ladd_. ___
Mr . Ni chols
Mr . Rosen--Mr . T r acy_ ___
Mr . Carson___
Mr . Egan____
Mr. Gurne a___
Mr . Harbo___
Mr.
•Mr. Jones _ ___
Mr. Leonard
Mr. P enn ington_
Mr . Qu inn Tamm_
Mr . Nease_ _ _ _
Mi s t.,.Gandy___
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