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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 SUB A

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 124 pages · text from the file's own layer

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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SANTA F E N. M. -- THE SANTA FE NEW MEX ICA N SAI D TODAY THAT
"FANTASTIC"'STRIDES HAVE BEEN MADE I N THE FIELD OF GUIDED MISSILE
RES EARCH AND THAT IT I S •P~ IBLE• THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT MAY SOON
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THE NEWSPAPER SAjD "SOMO.RAPS MAY BE REMOVED FROM SOME ASPECTS
OF THE HUSH- HUSH PROGRAM" AT A SPECIAL DEMONS TRA TI ON TENTATIVELY
SCHEDULED AT THE WH lTE SANDS PROVI NG GROUNDS SOUTH OF HERE LATER THI S
SPR I NG.
nI T IS POSSI BLE THAT THE DIS CL OS URE SOON TO BE MADE BY THE DEPART-
MENT OF DEFENSE MAYT IN PART AT LEAST, EXPLAI N SOME OF THE ' THI NGS '
SIGHTED IN SOUT HWES ERN SKIES BY BEWILDERED OBSERVERS WHO HAVE
TERMED THEM ' FLYI NG SAUC ERS ' FOR LACK OF A BETTER NAME, " THE PAPER
SAID.
( HOWEVER COL . M. G. HENDR ICKS~. COMMANDANT OF THE PROVI NG GROUNDS,
SAI D TODAY THAT RESEARCH THERE " HAS NOTHI NG TO DO WITH ANYING LIKE
THE SO-CALLED FLYI NG SAUCER . WE ARE STR I CTLY I N THE GUIDED MISS ILE
BUS I NESS • THERE CER TA I NL Y WON ' T BE ANYT HI NG LI KE A FLYI NG SAUCER
DEMONS TRATED." )
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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.