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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.
• • fiffl~··~ - , ~ Im ~Clegg_ o/(lll Glavin__ Harbo _ _ Rosen _ _ Tracy ___ La ughlin___ Mohr___ Tele. Rm._ Holloman_ Gandy ___ ' (SAUCERS) ~ - IPHYSICIST NOEL W SCOTT SAID TODAY THAT THOSE FLYING •THINGS• OPLE HAVE BEEN s EING MAY BE •ANODE GLOWS• CAUSED BY IONIZATION or T IN AIR IN THE UPPER ATMQ;PHERE. 0 ~ ONE REASON SCOTT FEELS THAT WAY IS THAT HE HAS PRODUCED ._•FLYING SAUCERS• IN HIS LABORATORY AT FORT BELVOIR VA. WHICH POSSESS ALL THE CHAlrACTERISTICS ATTRIBUTED TO THE RADA~-SPOfTED •OBJECTS• REPORTED HERE IN RECENT WEEKS. SCOTT WAS . NOT TALKING ABOUT THE BRIGHT METEOR WHICH FLASHED ACROSS THE NORTHWESTERN SKIES HERE SUNDAY NIGHT1 BUT ABOUT WHATEVER IT IS THAT HAS BEEN PRODUCING •BLIPS• ON AIR FuRCE RADAR SCREENS. FIVE SUCH •UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS• WERE SPOTTED BY RADAR AT NEARBY ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE IN MARYLAND SHORTLY BEFORE LAST MIDNIGHT. AS A RESULT OF HIS CREATIONS IN THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT lBORATORIES AT FORT BELVOIR~ SCOTT .SAID, •I AM CONVINCED THAT THESE , LYING THINGS' ARE NATURAL YHENOMENA.• ~ scon HAS BEEN CONDUCTING EXPERIMENTS WITH A LARGE VACUUM JAR UNDE NDITIONS SIMULATING THE RAREFIED AND IONIZED UPPER ATMOSPHERE. BY IONIZING THE THIN AIR IN HIS BELL JAR WITH STATIC ELECT8ICITY SCOTT AT WILL PRODUCED BALLOON-LIKE BLOBS OF LIGHT WHICH HE COULD MOVE AROUND AT ANY DESIRED SPEED. ALL, HE SAID, COULD HAVE BEEN •DETECTED~ BY RAD4R. IN A DEMONSTRATION YESTERDAY FOT LT. GEN. LEWIS A. PICK CHIEF OF ARMY ENGINEERSL AND OTHERS~ SCOTT SAID HE MADE THE LIGHTS ~TAND STILL REVERSE THEMS E VES, OR WINK OUT• ' BY ALTERING THE AIR PRESSURE HE CHANGED THE COLOR FROM A NEON-LIKE ORANGE TO WHITE OR BLUE OR WHITE WITH A GREEN HALO. HE COULD MAKE THE BLOBS APPEAR TO LEAVE AN INCANDESCENT TRAIL LIKE A JET DISCHARGE SCOTT EXPLAINED THAT AN •ANODE GLOW• FORMS ON AN IONIZED • fECTRIFIE.D) LAYER OR VOLUME OF GAS WHICH IS POSITIVE IN RESPECT TO ISURROUNDING ATMOSPHERE. SUCH GLOWS COULD OCCUR ANYWHERE FROM SO 200 MILES UPi HE SAID, DEPENDING ON CONDITIONS OF ATMOSPHERIC ESSURE AND IONIZATION. 8/6--TS 1259P INDfXED-J.ll \&'o< ~ 3 2.f:.../ EX ~ ' r ili":O c)IJ ~ 73 98 AUG 11 19o2 6 5 AUG 141952 WASHINGTON CITY: NEWS-sat-¥Ien--,-
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