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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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  • 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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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.