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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.
• • ------- --- 0-19 (Rev. 9 - 7- 56) Mystery Objects Calfed .. Mirage by Astron9mer·By the A.ssocJated Press A Harvard astronomer says plYsterious objects reported from va.rious parts of the country and the Gulf of Mexico are mirages stemming from natural causes. Dr. Donald H. Menzel, director of the Harvard College Observatory, said yesterday in Cambridge; Mass., that the whole thing amounts to "another flying saucer scru·e." The Air Force has started an investigation of the reported sightings of the strange gJow-1------------ ing objects in the sky. The mosphere which would give a Air Force fo~ . yeru·s has ~ad radar reflection."the responslbJhty of checkmg reports of unidentified flying A~ for rep_orts of the auto objects •,but as one officer put engmes stalling, he said, "It it, "We don't investigate all of would not be surprising that ath Aem." h f sueh e ts has nervous,, foot could stall an en-ras o r por . developed sinde Sunda.y, with gme. some of the sightings said to Dr. Menzel, author of a book have been made near secret about flying saucers, said he military installations in the has been studying them for Southwest. Some of the per- about 10 Years and has yet to so11s making the reports said hear of one Which could not tlie objects caused their auto be explained by natural phe engines to stall and their radios nomena. to fade. "They are caused by a layer Cutte11 Claims Sighting of h~ated air : . . acting as a Yesterday the Coast Guard le~s and formmg an lmag~ of' Cutter Sebago radioed from the ObJects as !!1Uch ~s 40 01 50._ Gulf of Mexico that an object miles away, he said. 0 resembling a brllllant planet Common in West with a high rate of speed was "They are nothing more than rseen for a1:>out three seconds, a mirage. They are prevalentand that it was tracked by . radar. , just after nightfall as the Dr. Menzel said it is probable heated air begins to cool off at the cutter's prewmen got a the ground, and they are com false image "quite ~kely from mon in the West where theylbubbles of hot air m the at- have clear air."3 - • - == The Air Force aid that dur- ing the first half of this year only 1.9 per cent of the 250 re ported sightings of flying saucers and other strange ob jects in the air have been classed as "unknown." And the Ah- Force ·wasul't ready to . be lieve that even this small per• centage has sinister implica tlons. It seemed a good bet the Air Force will agree with Dr. Menzel's opinion that the cur rent' sightings have explana Uons in nature, or that the reported objects are actually aircraft or similar man-made ~~ .. "" Tolson--- Nichols Boardman -- - Belmont _ _ _ Mohr _____ Parsons ---- Rosen ____ Tamm _____ Trotter ---- Nease ____ Tele. Room -- Holloman --- J?/ - n l j - f\l NOTRECORDED l40.HOV 1;:, 1957 Wash, Post and---- Times Herald Wash. News-~-:;;-;~ Wash. Star & / t:J N. y . Herald ----- Tribune V N, Y. Journal-_____ N. Ay~e~ii~;; N. Y. Daily News N. Y. Times Daily Worker _____ The Worker _ ____ New Leade r _____ Date
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