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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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intelhi!Bllte experts reached the tic physical evidenc~ey
following conclusions: • are interplanetary."
1. The average speed of the Continuing, Gen. Smith stated:
unknown objects was somewhere "For the Air Force to admit
bf.tween 653 and 980 miles per that flying saucers exist. it would
hour. wa.nt indisputable physical evi-
2. All the objects appeared dence. For such an admission, It
round, of the same size, and gave would want stronger evidence
off a bluish-white glow of very than it now has."
high intensity. Sunvning up the problem, he
3. The objects seemed to be said:
maneuvering in a circular or el- "So far, . the Q u es ti.on of
Jiptical pattern within the group, ~vhether flymg sa~cers exist, and
at very high speeds. •1f so, wl_1at they a1e, has n~t bee~
. conclusively answered e 1th e 1
4. B~cause of these high speeds, way."
the obJects. ob_v_lously could not be But one thing is certain, he
balloons 01 buds. added. The Air Force will con·
5. They were not any type of tinue to seek the answer.
known a ircraft. • W Iii Push Campaign
6. The sighting could not be ex Meanwhile, Keyhoe plans • toplained by any conventional an continue his campaign to comswer. pel the Air Force to disclose the
Asked if the _Times-Herald facts he says 1t is concealing.
could see •the final analysis re He told the Times-Herald he wil:
port, an Air Force spokesman continue to make his claims in
said that there were certain re print and on television. and will
ports the Air Force could not challenge the Air Force to deny
make public for security reasons, them.risk of libel, and other reasons. "If any officia1. after reading
However, the spokesman said the final ana,lysis on the Utah
the film could be viewed at film, says that it did not rule
Wright field, Ohio. out birds, known aircraft or
Not Discoun t ing Theo1·y conventional obj e c ts as the
The Air Force officially neither cause of those objects, I will call
accepts nor rejects the interplan- him a liar to his face.
etary theory. I • "I do not like to use such
terms, but after all , the AirBrig, Gen. Sory Smith. Air Force has, in, effect, been callingForce public relations chief, put it
this way: me a liar and I'm getting tired
of it."
"We do not know enough about Regardless of the charges and
it to deny that flying saucers long thecounter-charges, so as
exist. Conversely, we have no Air Force has unsolved sightings.Proof that they do exist. ln its files - and until it is
"In our investigation we are definitely known what the fly.
not discounting the possibility ing saucers are - the average
that. the saucers--if they exist,.... person is bound to wonder . . .
could be Interplanetary. We are Are the flying saucers real? Times Herald
Interested in anyone who might If so. what are they? ibe using the air over the United The final chapter is yet to b Wash. Post5t written in this strange drama.
!4{1g;,vcvei we have no authen- The answer.J,s not yet available
to us. Wash . News
Wash. Star
N. Y. Times
N. Y. Compass
Date; 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.