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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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• • i "~-::;:sr- ~ igh-Flying Bomber Caused New Disc Tale Special to The Inquirer quent. to keep interceptor teams onREADING. Pa., Aug. 28.- Air Na- the alert. tional Guard officers and control The aerial display on Monday waa tower operators of t he C ~1 witnessed by hundreds of Guards. Aeronautics Admlnist;\l,tion today men of . t h.e 112~h Fighte~ Wing, "cleared up" the lates~ ying saucer J:'.0 nnsylvama-Maryland Air Na- . . t1ona l Guard, as well as officers who mystery, as evolved m the skies over watched the maneuvers throUgh rks county last Monday. binoculars. 'Ihe saucers, seen by a large num- Ai: N~tional .Guard officers ~~ i r of persons a t that time, a the 1epo1 t sub1:rntted by Han-y Fem . auer, 43, of Birdsboro, who said h ±okesman said, were vapor trails thought he saw a plane release of a B-36 inter-continental bomber flying saucer In the air Monda and a jet plane. which CAA tower- morning, probably had to do with men said were flying at an altitw;le the jet which he saw div;; ~n the of 40.000 to 45.000 feet. bomber. T he j~t left a bigzag •trail as it Nor .did the Guard's e,·planat!on . . . . . dovetail very. clooely with th~ a c d1 ved m on the. big bombei m a count given by Herbert Long, 29, mock mterception attack. The Kutztown insurance salesman, Wi>') spokesman said such air shows were bold of seeing a flying saucer 30 feet frequent when atmospheric condi- in front of his automobile Mopd tions were right for the hot exhausts night. off tbe All11ntowt1 pike ne 1· from engines to freeze at high alti- Maxatawny. Long said he saw t e tude. object so clearly t hat he Was ab p The big• bombers, the spokesman to make a. detailed drawing ot • ; ·plained, often fly far out over the ~ . e)I are observed on radar screens nd jets are sent; up to intercept ean, and when they approach th[ astline on their return journeys ~- su, h t.s~. he '""''•"' ,,.. 1:; &if-j/" / ___ __ _NOT RaA6RO£D 101 ;SEP lZ 1~52 Mr. Tillson__ Mr. Ladd Mr. Nichols _ _ Mr. BE>lmont __ Mr. Clegg _ _ Mr. Glavin___ Mr. Ha.t·bo _ _ _ !\fr. Rost>n____ Mr. Tracy___ _ Mr. Laughlin_ Mr. Mohr___ Mr. Winterrowd. Tele. Roo1IL- Mr. Hollomall. Miss Gandy__ _ I .. J ·- .... SECT11N J...........................ft.. ft..........._,_; 'SECTION 2......................................................H SECTION 3................ ·········••••••••••• ..........,...... .:SECTION 4...................... SUPERVISOR... .............................................". BUREAU,...............................................,........-
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.