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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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0- 19 (11-22-55) • ~re Are-7 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 em and make public its • d- 1 gs.i itJ: fr~- O'EBN" 23 \957191 JAN / fl - s:~ Ont ~ Mason ......!:::.....;___ _ Mohr _ _ ____ Parsons - - - - Rosen - - ---- Tamm _____ _ Nease----- Winterrowd --- Tele. Room - - - Holloman ----- Gandy------ Wash. Post and --- Times Herald Wash. News---- Wash. Star _ _ ___ N. Y . Herald ____ Tribune N. Y. Mi rror '"Z-- N. Y. Daily News __ Daily Worker ____ The Worker ___ _ New Leader ____ Date ~
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.