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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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Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tracy
Mr. Carson'Flying Saucers' Reported Seen " Mr. Egan
Mr .sy Scores of'Eyewitnesses' Gur ne a---
By th• Auocloted Pms said they saw the discs yesterday Mr. Harbo
The '•flying saucer" mystery afternoon. A party of seven firs, Mr . Hendon---reached fever pitch today, after ''I saw some and 10 mlnutees later, ,
saw them myselt" statements from a crowd of 20 or 30 people saw an Mr . Jones
a veteran United Air Lines crew, other batch of nine or ten. Wore Pennington_scores of Portland (Oreg.) residents, passed around, and soon the waltin(
and 60 picknickers at Twin Falls crowd saw another batch circling Quinn T amm_
Park in Idaho. and climbing.
The UAL pilot copilot and stew- At Seattle, Frank Ryman, coast
ardess, who had ; coffed consistently ~uard yeoman, said he took a
at "flying saucer" tales, said they picture of what some residents north
saw such objects last night while of Seattle thought was a flyirig disc.
flying a passenger plane from Boise, 1'.he photograph showed a pinhead
Idaho, to Portland. size light spot agamst the dark
Their statements followed a day evening sky. .
during which the "saucers" were The Oregoruan dispatched a plane
reported seen In many parts of the to hunt Portland's saucers. It foul )
Nation nothing but empty sky.
• . Strange Cr aft Over Philadelphia .
. Many P~rtlanders-mcludlng po- In Philadelphia, Dr. M. K. Leis ,
llice, experienced flyers and three a junior lnteme at the Peru1sylvan
ewspap~rmen-declared they saw Hospital for Mental Diseases, and
Ivery discs over Portland. other persons In the western sec
I n New Orleans, Miss Lillian Law- tion of the city, reported seeing
ss said she saw an object, shining strange craft in the skies last night.
ke silver or chromium, flying at a It was something round with a
great height and at a terrific speed luminous halo about It, Dr. Leisk
In a northeasterly direction over declared. It was not shiny, but
Lake Pontchartrain. dark In color and seemed to be
"Pancake Sta nding on End." propelled by whirling wings. Dr.
Describing what they saw as fiat, Leisy &aid the object he saw was
tran~lucent plates 12 to 15 Inches moving at approximately the speed
in diameter, several Port Huron of the wind, b_elow the clouds. tt
(Mich.) residents reported seeing eventually vs.n~hed m the clouds,
the "saucers." he added.
A dl&patch from Summerslde,
Capt. E. J . Smith, Seattle, a ve~- Cana, said farmers in the Prince
eran of ~• years \\lth United Air Edward Island region claim to have
Lines, said he observed the round seen more of the mysterious disc
flat objects-'·Jike a pancake stand- like missiles reported flying through
lng on end"-for about 12 minutes northern skies earlier this wcet
while flying trom Emmet,t Idaho, to J ames Harris, farmer at She •
a point southeast of Ontario, Ore. brooke, 1 mile norlll of here, a1 l
He radioed the Ontario airport but his hired man, Herman Linklettc
airport officials saw nothing. said they saw one of the objec ~
1 Sixty persons plcknlcking at 'I\v!n last; night traveling from the north
f'nlls Park, near Twin Falls, Idaho, west toward the southeast.
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