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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.

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Saucers, IV
Expert SaysBy VERN HAUGLAND
WASIIlNGTON, Jan. 15 (AP).
-Reteired Rear Adm. Delmer S.
Fahrney once head of the Navy's
guided missiles program, said
Wednesday reliable reports indi
cate that " there are objects com
ing into our atmosphere at very
high speeds."
Fahrney told a news confer
ence that "no a gency in this
.country or Russia is able to dupli
cate at this time the speeds and
ac~elerations wblch radar and
observers indicate these flying
objects are able to achieve."
" . .FAHRNEY SAID he never has
seen a flying saucer, but has
talked with a number of scien
tists and engineers who reported
seeing strange flying objects.
Fahrney called a news con1er
ence following an organizational
meeting of a new private group,
the National Investigations Com
mittee on Aerial Phenomena, of
which he is board c:hailman.
Fahrney said the committee
was set up largely to tie to- .
gether a number of UFO-mean
ing ~nidenti1ied flying objects"
- clubs being formed throughout
the world. Fahrney said his ij•ittee wll collect and investig te
ying saucer reports, evalu e
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Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 124 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.