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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.
-- - OJD • • .ii:: ii:~:;::;;:.-1-1-"t Mr. Ni ,,, Mr. Belmo Mr. Harbo ___ Mr. Mohr ___ Mr. Parsons __ Mr. Rosen __ .Mr. Tamm ___ ' ' M S C,V Mr. Sizoo ___ Mr. Winterrowd_ 3r1~Mo1qa1 O''l • Tele. Room __ ! 8 ·1 . Mr. Holloman _ .::,,f?. Jl. ;. "'i J~ ; Miss Gandy __ 'OBJECT) '-.. MOBILE ALA.--BROOKLEY AIR FORCE BASE REPOR.TED THAT AN ,r ~ \ "UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT. BRILLIANT AND SILVER COLORED" WAS TRACKED BY RADAR OVER MOBILE AND THE ALABAMA-MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST LAST NIGHT. MAJ . JAMES ZICHERALI, PUBL.IC INFORMATION OFFICER AT BROOKLEY, SAID \THE OBJECT "APPEARED TO BE A JET-TYPE AIRCRAFT OF NEW DESIGN WITH SHORT 1STUBBY WINGS•" FIVE OTHER RESIDENTS OF ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI ALSO REPORTED SIGHTING THE OBJECT. ZI CHERALI SAID THE OBJE~T APPEARED ON THE BASE CONTROL TOWER RADAR · S EEN AT 6:50 P. M. CST, HE SAID RADAR OPERATORS REPORTED IT "MADE ~ N OUND AND LEFT NO TRAIL BUT GAVE EVIDENCE OF DEFINITELY BEING MANEUVERED." 1/1--~~nuP t ~/-1~-~ 4N()'l~ Rl:r.<:IJll'f)IDI) 76 JUL 14 1954 6 0 JUL 14195 WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVI CE yt/~J-
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.