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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.
• • NO SALE By the time The News talked to Pk. Viets at Quantico yesterday, the airplane navigation light theory already had been offered. The News asked Pfc. Viets about it, and he said: "That was no airplane. I first thought it might be a weather balloon, but it wasn't. Either way, you could have seen the s hape." Pfc.- Viets and Sergt. Salinder saw the light again at 10:15 the same night. Five minutes later they called in the roving guard from a nearby guard tower, but the light was gone. CONFLICT P fc. Bennett (top front) ~rabbed a butcher knife and said: "It's land First reports had It that troops h1g in Ule tanlt shed!" 1\'la.i. Pomerleau (middle photo) i.s skeptical, were sent into the area to look for but still curious. Pfc. Viets (bottom photo) saw enough to convb1ce the lights. Yesterday Maj. A. B. hhn "that was no alrplane." -News stare Photos by Gene ThomBa \ Ferguson, the base information of- ficer, said that report was errone- • with troops," the official report sible way to describe the light's ous. says. size, shape and intensity was to "We did at no time dispatch Thirty minutes later, the sergeant compare it t o "the way a blinking troops to fight off the invaders or of' the guard saw it again, and at 8:23 p. m. three lights .wet'e seen. red traffic light appears to a motor capture then or welcome them (This was New Year's Eve.) At ist as he pulls up to an intersec- aboard or anything else," he said. tlon " However, this is what the official 9:01 it was seen again, and at 4:20 • record says: New Year's morning it moved He heard no noise and saw no "A IS-man detail arrived (at northeast, then south, theri north shape. He said the light was "sharp- and remained "over the tank shed ly delineated."11:15 p. m., Dec. 30) f rom Camp Barrett and made a search of the at an elevation of about 3500 feet." "But I have friends and a pro· area in which the light was first 1'hat was the time Pfc. Vie'ts fessional reputation," he said, "and seen. 1'he search proved fruit- said, "when they saw lt oome u1> as far as I'm concemed just say less.'' there and lay under the moon until it's an aircraft navigation light.'' Fifty minutes later Pfc. Viets' re- morning." Sev.eral ail:lines that fly in and out lief "reported seeing the same red Pfc. Viets' relief of the night be- of Washington say they began in light." Se1>gt. Salinder saw nothing. fore got so excited he "grabbed a stalling new lights atop the tails of HOVERS butcher knife and h eaded for the planes six m011ths ago. They blink tank shed to help out his troops,'' on and off, a re red, and can be seen The next night the light was seen his barracks mates said. much farther away than older types. again, at 6 :25 p. m ., by a tank The light came back three times "Nobody in the barracks knows,'' park sentry and the guard tower. Friday night, once Saturday night, Pfc. Viets said.. ''They're just talking At 7:10, it appeared again. This five times Sunday night and twice flying saucers, that's a:11. They're time the sergeant of the guard last night. talking about men from Mars and "came out and check~~ the c:,rea Maj. Pomerleau said the best pos- everything else you could name." = - THE WA~'HIIJGTON DAILY Nl!.'WS Greater Washington ~-d· t· 1-5-54 ~ i ion
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.