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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.
“The Wash”36 pages
-- • .... 'THAT WAS NO AIRPLANE' Are 11,ey Hiding Tl,ose Lights Under a BushellBy EVERT CLARK Mysterious red lights which have flown over the Quantico Marine Base 22 times in the past six nights were officially explained away today as a new type of aircraft navigation light. But most of the Marines who saw them still don't believe that's what they were. In addition, The News ran into what seems to be a delib erate attempt to cover up cer tain facets of the longest con tinuous ''flying· saucer" run in history. The first man to see the light was Pfc. Norman Vie ts, 18, of Greenville, Pa. Since' then, at least ,. 30 other Ma rines, including half a , dozen officers, have seen It, too. On one occasion, sent ries report I ed seeing three ligh t s at once. They ( say they have seen the lights drop straight down, fly straight up and stand still. Even the most • c a r e f u I-and skep tical-observer, the base pr ov ost ma rshal, Maj. D. D. Pomerleau, admitted the lights had character istics he never expected to find on an airliner. FIRST SIGHTING Pfc. Viets was standing sentry duty at the Tank Parle a few miles north of Camp Barrett on the south western side of the Quantico reser• vation at 9:05 p. m . Dec. 30 when he "reported a moving, blinking red light near his post which he could not explain." The sergeant of the guard, Sergt. Francis R. Salinder , "investigated and saw the light but could not ex• plain it." j Pfc. Viets told The News the light fi rst appeared to come s traight toward him over a line of t rees about 200 yards to the south o.f his post. 1, "It was about a foot a nd a ha lf in diameter," he said, "only going about 10 or 15 miles a n hour. Then it fol• lowed the tree line about 50 yards to the righ t and went down. "It went straigh t ~own, all of _a sudden. F'itteen minutes later 1t went straight up and moved over h ere toward the tank shed. 162__ 81f;lf /l THE \r~ASHI NGTOH DAILY l\TE\1S"I saw it two times aiter that. It did the sarne thin~- It was the NOT RECORDED Greater washington Edition weirdest looking thmg I. ever saw. 1-5-54148 JAN l2 ,~04There was no e n~ine"n~e"'a~<!. no s hape-just the light. • J
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.