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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 SUB A

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 124 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

  • p. 3 …feet between Philipsburg an said "I have never seen any- Bradford, Pa., at 8:45 p…
  • p. 18 …are able to achieve." " . .FAHRNEY SAID he never has seen a flying saucer, but has talked…
  • p. 20 …request to "Confidential Files, The FBI, never one to pass Washington, D. C." out military secrets…
  • p. 27 …upward, wltb great speed.'' He said he never had seen anything like it before, an added…
  • p. 31 …Pomerleau, admitted the lights had character istics he never expected to find on an airliner. FIRST…
  • p. 36 …The Air Force has never denied that this possibility exists. Some of the personnel believe tbat…
  • p. 40 …Defense r esea.rcb scientista here never have pooh-poohed flv ing saucers, which have been…
  • p. 82 …but that it never flew and Navy then took over development was scrapped more than a…
  • p. 91 …one of t hese, and it had never ventured outside Connecticut. A meteorologist suggested that solar…
  • p. 96 …what fJying saucers ook like and has never established that such things ac- ually were seen…
  • p. 106 …that th~i strange-looking aircraft has never left Bridgeport, Conn. A thor ities are stil…
  • p. 118 …cuss whether the Air Forces has message never a1T1ved. anded," she said. "We could see things…
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Doolittle Scoffs at Repm1
Of Nazi Fl'yi~g Saucer~\
By the A elated Press Iof ·Hugh L. Dryden. director of
James . Doolittle says it the advisory committee. •
.,. st ain't so" that Nazi Ger- Mr. Dryden said "there is no
JU · truth" in a statement t hat
many deve.loped a flying saucerlGerman engineers desig~1ed a
and a bomber that could at~ack flying saucer which attamed a
the United states and -return height of 40,000 feet and speed
. of 1,250 miles an hour.
without refuelmg. •'This is an advertisement for
The veteran airman, chairman a book which includes material
of the National Advisory Com- discovered by our groups who
mittee for Aeronautics, last went into Germany after the
month gave a House Approprla- war." he said. •
tions Subcommittee his estimate He said also the man supposed
of reports published in Germany to have designed the bomber
of great aviation accomplish- that could cross the Atlantic
ents under Hitler. These were twice without refueling had writ
j,nta.ined In a book by Rudolf ten a book of his own with ~
usa.r, former German War Min- mention of any such inventio .
try special weapons chief. Gen. Doolittle, asked a.bo
Gen. Doolittle's testimony was both the saucer and the bombe ,
published today, along with that said, "it just ain't so."
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Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 124 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.