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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.
“Nevers”12 pages
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Cloud, ·Nor ·Balloon" .:,
B:r Unite<! P1·ess overhead. It disappeared in thre~ or
Coast Guardsman Frank Ryman, four seconds. .
27, had a picture today snapped• Two Portland, Ore., _police scout
;from the front porch of his home cars three miles apart notified head
near Seattle which authorities quarters at 1:15 p. m. yesterday
hoped wouJd clear up the mystery that they had sighted a group of
of the flying saucers. strange objects weaving in a "play-
(It didn't.) ful manner" 10,000 feet above the
He said what he saw was ground over the southern suburbs
neither an airplane, a cloud nor a of Portlan'd. Clark County (Wash.)
"silver balloon." Deputy Sheriff Fred K,rlves, across
~Ile pilot and co-pilot of a Unit- the Columbia from Portland, said
ed Airlines plane said they turned he saw 20 flying discs "slewing off
their craft off its c o u r se near , to one side, almost in single iile"
Boise, Idaho, and c h as ed. a .over the county court hou·se. .
"strange object" for 15 miles. be- T. L Huckaby of Pinc Bluff,
fore it outdistanced them or 'dis• Ark., s11iil he saw a flying objec~
integrated in the dusk. Ca11t. R. J. • "about the size and color of a
Smith and Second Officer R. E. Bluff area. . Decatur, 111., and
Stevens, both of Seattle, said "we Salt Lake City also reported in
can definitely say that what we today.
saw was not smoke, not a cloud, At Philadelphia, Dr. M. K. Leisy
and not another airplane." , of the Pennsylvania Hospital .fo1•
A similar object '-Vas seen by John MentaJ Diseases, said he saw a big
~orlett, United Press staff ~orre- dark saucer-like ?bject move slowly
ondent his wi.fe, and two friends across the sky Just beiore sunset
fom MJ... Corlett's back yard in yesterday. f'!.e said it was surround
oise. He said it was a white disc ea by a luminous halo .a~d a~peared
lying about 10,000 feet directly to be propelled by whirlmg Jets.
JUL 51947
WASHINGTON NEWS
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