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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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-- / 1954n I GANADA PIJNS FLYING SAUCER 08SERVATORY Not Optical Illusions, Top Experts Hold OTTAWA, Nov. 12 lCTPSl Establlshment of a~nadian government observatory for fly. Ing sauc ers, the first In the world, has been announced here. "There is a very high deg-ree of probability that flying saucers are real objects, and a 60 per cent probability that they are alien vehicles," Wilbert B. Smith. scientist appointed to supervise the new saucer sighting station, told reporters. He said the federal transport department, in which he has charge of the telecommunications broadcast and measurement sec tion, receives constant reports of sighting of flying saucers. The total number; he said, is classi fied as restricted information. "The optical illusion explana tion is lovely," he said, "but in every sighting t here is always some factor that precludes this explanation. We have decided ·to try to learn just what they are." Canada's sighting station will be at Shirley bay, OD the Ottawa river 10 miles west of here. Smith said any one Iocaion in Canada is sure to have at least one saucer sighting a year. Associated with Smith In the project, "which is under the transport department and the defense research board, will be a theoretical physicist and a specialist in gravitational studies. A 24-hour watch will be kept for saucers. Specially built equip ment Is wired to alarro bells. The equipment includes an iono spheric r eactor, electronic de vices for measurement of sounds, a gamma ray detector, a gravi meter, and oth er paraphernalia, Jet planes may be sent up from the air force field near Ottawa to Investigate any saucers re ported by the station. Defense r esea.rcb scientista here never have pooh-poohed flv ing saucers, which have been pub licly reported in nightmarish shapes and forms over .Canadian cities. some of them have been described as mult icolored cigar , figurations. Frequency of t he saucer sight ings h&.6 been noted here to rise With the increase in prox1mity of the planet Mars to the ear th. Smith said he does l'ioC ,aie'UUt the possV>l*ty that the saucers ~r.Y'e\,u e om o !I • 0-19 Times Herald Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N. Y. Times N. Y. Compass Dat e : 11JJ/...r -
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.