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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.
--- JJ l Iii,,..~ .....,--- • mtf •-- ~......,.._I_.· f ) I BOWLING GREEN O.••A PRIVATE PLANE PILOT SAID TODAY HE SAW "AN OBJECT BRIGHTER fHAN THE SUN FOR ABOUT FIVE S[CONDs . n WHILE CRUISING AT ABOUT 80 MI LES PER HOUR TWO MI U:S WEST Of H£RE • • THE PILOT. WHO ASKED THAT HIS IDENTITY NOT BE REVEALED. SAID HIS PLANE WAS AT ABOUT 2 . 000 FEET THIS MORNING WHEN Ht SAW THE UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT. "lT LOOKED LIKE A BALL OF FIRE•" HE SAID. "IT WAS BRILLIANT WHITE• LIKE f-10LTEN ST£Elf THEN IT TURNED BLUE AND TOOK OFF STRAIGHT WEST• IT TOOK Off WITHIN r VE SECONDS . • THE PILOT SAID THE OBJ£CT WAS TRAVELLING FASTER THAN ANY JET PLANE AND WAS COING SOUTH WHEN HE FIR!;T SAW IT. J-IE SA I D T.H£ Sl<Y WAS CLEAR AI\JD THERE WERE NO OTHER Pl.ANES IN SIGHT AT THE TI 1£. tHE SAID HE DION ' T THINK IT COULD KAVE BEEN ANY REFLECTION. Ht ,.,.. • ID IT APPEARED ABOUT A FOOT IN DIA 1ETER AND WA$ ABOUT THE SAME t~ ~~ALTlTUD[ AT WHICH HE WAS FLYING . ' P 12/11••TS1,1P 1( - . ff NO'!' P""r• )?-.DED 191 DEG 16 1953
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.