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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.-Tols~ Of)y111j J>~5 - - ---- - - ---- --- -----i ·saucers Here, Saucers There- 1nc1uding Washington As rumors persisted (and were denied) that the "flying sau cers" are rndio controlled rocket or jet planes being tested se cretly, Washington got in the act today with a report from two District women of strange goings-on overhead. Meanwhile, assorted scientists~·--- ---- ------ came up with widely varying theo• ries as to .what-if anything-the heavenJy wanderers may be. Dr . John G. Lynn, human be havior expert of Valhalla, N. Y., said people. have the atomic jitters. Navy Observatory a str onomer s here said that so far as they can judge fr om description, the obj2ct s a re not astronomical phenomena. A n o t h er as tronomer-civilian- opined that people "are seeing spots before their eyes." But unnamed scientists quoted by Science Service expressed doubt that a purely opt ical illusion would make people think they were see ing flying disks. Science Service also pointed out tha t some o.f t he ·, saucers have been r eported by "re liable observers accustomed to look ing at the sky."' 'There Were Three jShaped Like Dishes• MINNESOTA-AV NE, July 5. Scientists from ma ny Washington's top-drawer institut ions are expected to flock to this street t oday after the first a uth enticated reportt of flying saucers within t he city lim its of Washington was made by two startled matrons. The ladies spotted the , things night beiore last, but were under standably reluctant to report it at once. "I know what you'll t hink," the youngee one said in an exclusive interview with The News, ''but mother saw them, too, and sh e ~ocsn't drink. "We were shopping on Minni!• sota-ave ne at about 7 Thul·srlay night," she said, "when I heard a 1noise like a jet-propelled plane. I1 looked up and saw these things go ing thru the air. There were three of them, shaped like dishes and go ing fast a s a jet plane. They ¥:ere bright golden in color, but that may have been from th sun· being re- ' f leeted from some brigh t metal ob- Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr . Mr. Mr . Mr . Mr. Mr. Mr . Mr. Mr . Mr. Mr. Miss E . A. Tamm_ Cl egg Gl avi n Ladd Nichols Rose n T r acy Ca r son- - - Egan Gurne a _ _ _ Harb o Hendon P enning ton_ Quinn T amm-Nease___ _ Ga ndy_ _ _ RECORDED je;,~s. c~)Uldn't estimate the size of <--l ~ <) ; ~ 3 '6o/'+ _.-,4the thmgs, but they seemed to be , • \ r/- __... ~ 1fairly far away. I looked away Ior F 8 \an instant to tell mother to look at the things." '1' The witness' mother looked ,1p 41 JUl 89 19 and also saw the "dishes." .ihen they swished over the hori;;lll andl ' disappeared. Th e two women asked rat their names be withheld from p,hlication, lest skep tical neighbors p~e fun at them. JUL 51947_ WASHINGTON NEWS Page 5
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