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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.
I 'Flying Saucer?' : ,Weird Spy Disc •Sighted By Shipi l A c h 'culn,1' <>bkcl,, g 1•nyloh f\t fll'!;t and tlien brl«hter, llk@ tlie ' moon, s ho0Ll11g up from n cai· .sea level and disappearing in clouds at .5,000 feet, was sighted at sea last night 80 miles east of New York. OWcers of t he Dutch liner Groote Beer 1·eported the incident when the vessel arrived in Hoboken. 1 "l don't know what it was," 11aid Ca pt. Ja n P. Boshoff, a veteran shlpmaster, who sa.id he watched t he obJeot through his binoculars. "It might have t been what has been described I r as a flying saucer, but I don't j know what it was." 1 Through his most powerful binoculars, the captain trained ,' them on the object. 40 degrees off the port side. Several other officer similarly trained bino culars. Capt. Boshoff described it as "a flat object, resembling t he Imon, at first kind of rray and t hen t urning brighter on t~ lower part. and around t he edges having bright spots as If they were ligh ts." He said it was moving- "directly upward, wltb great speed.'' He said he never had seen anything like it before, an added : "l am positive It was not a meteor. Nor was it anytbinr tural In the sky." Mr. Tolson - Mr. Boardnum Mr, Nicbols Mr. Belmont Mr. Harbo Mr. Mohr. Mr. Paraons Mr. Rosen. M-r. Tamm Mr. Siz•,O·-- M-r. Winterrowd Tele. Roo!n..- Mr. Holloman Miss Gandy__ 1954
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.