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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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' ... DE-~~NT . OF THE AIR FORCE • • • • Office of Pub~ic• Information Washington· 25 , D, c .1 • • I ' . • ' • • • ' ~ 1 I • ~ U •. S • .Air For:ce .Summary of Eve.nts.• and Information Concerning the Unidentifie <;l Flying ObJept P~ogram The Air Force· feels a , very definite obligation to id,entify and analyze things thit happeri in ·the air that 'may h~ve in them menace to the United States and; because of that reeling of obligation and pur ~uit of that interest, t _h~- Air .Forc:e established an activity known as the Unidentified Flyi~~: :object Program.· · • This program was established i n ''1.94i when u,nidentified :f~yir:ig objects were being reported in varioμs · parts of the United States. The reports of . sightings reached a · peak of 1,700 in 1952 and dropped to a total of 429 111 1953. • During the· first pine months· of 1951+ o_nly ~54 sightings were rep6rte~ . From a survey of the volume of sightings received by the ~ir Force, ·1t , has been 0.etermfned that over ·80 percent are explainable as being known . objects. , Generaliy, sighted oojects fall into the cate gory of: . balloons, ·aircraft~ · astronomical bodies , atmospheric reflec tions~ and birds. All reports of unidentified flying objects result from either radar or visual sightings. . . Explanations pertaining to sightings reported from military and civilian r~dar facilities are as follows : 1. Temperature inversion reflections ca:n give a return on a radar scope. that is as shatp· as that received from an aircraft.I• • Speeds of these ret~rns reportedly ran~e -f~6m ~e~o to fantastic rates. The "objects" alsc:, appear to move in a:11 directions. Such sigh~:i:ngs have resulted in ·many fruitiess ,j_ntercept efforts. • To possibly bear out the theory of t emperature inversion refl.ect.ion is an. incident which occurred in January 1951 near Oakridge, Tennessee. Two Air Force aircraft attempt·ed to intercept an unidenti fied "object" and actually established a radar "lock" on the obje6t. Their altitude at the time· was 7,000 feet, The unidentified object, according to theiP radar, appeared to be at an elevation of 1o · to ~5 degrees from . this altitude . Three passes were made in an attempt to close on the qbject. In each instance the p1lots repo~ted that their radar led them first upward and then down toward a specif1c point on the ground. (One scientlfic theory holds that light can be .similarly reflected from a layer of warm air above the earth. If thiQ proves · to be correct; many visual , night sighting s could be ~ccounted for.) ' 2. Ionized ,clouds have causeq.some un1dentified radar returns Thunderstorms are identifiable by rada1° and radar ·returns have also• been received from ice formations in the air, balloons, ground reflec tions, frequency interference between ~ther radar stationi, ~nd wind born objects. Obviously, such returns are very difficult to . identify, especially when t hey occur during darkness. g')~,,- MORE
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