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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.
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Swedish Pilot ~eports 'Saucer'
By Unit.ed Preas
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec. 18-The .Swedish Royal Air Force
ordered a full investigation today of an airliner crew's report of seeing
a saucer-shaped object over Sweden near secret Soviet bases.
Gen. Bengt Norderskjold, air force commander-in-chief, called 1n
complete reports from all Swedish radar stations aft_.er joining the
defense staff in promising a detailed inquiry.
Capt. Ulf Christiernsson, pilot of the passenger liner, told the defense
staff he· and his crew saw the disc-shaped metallic object shortly after
noon yesterday over the southern Swedish town of. Haessleholm, about
·300 miles from the strategic Baltic coast.
"It was entirely an unorthodox, metallic, symmetrical and •ci1scular
object," Capt. Christiernsson said. "I was not at all scared, but curious,
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very curious." • • • '
Capt. Christiernsson said the object !Jew faster than sourldl ab.out ,
5000 .teet above the ground.
Capt. Christiernsson said the object headed southward over a low-
lying 'cloud layer which would obscure it from ground observers. He
said he watched it for about six seconds before it disappeared ln the
dire~tion of East Germany's Baltic shore. near the former Nazi research
station at Peenemunde, now operated by the Russians.l ,
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~ JAN 8.,.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.