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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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  • p. 18 …are able to achieve." " . .FAHRNEY SAID he never has seen a flying saucer, but has talked…
  • p. 20 …request to "Confidential Files, The FBI, never one to pass Washington, D. C." out military secrets…
  • p. 27 …upward, wltb great speed.'' He said he never had seen anything like it before, an added…
  • p. 31 …Pomerleau, admitted the lights had character istics he never expected to find on an airliner. FIRST…
  • p. 36 …The Air Force has never denied that this possibility exists. Some of the personnel believe tbat…
  • p. 40 …Defense r esea.rcb scientista here never have pooh-poohed flv ing saucers, which have been…
  • p. 82 …but that it never flew and Navy then took over development was scrapped more than a…
  • p. 91 …one of t hese, and it had never ventured outside Connecticut. A meteorologist suggested that solar…
  • p. 96 …what fJying saucers ook like and has never established that such things ac- ually were seen…
  • p. 106 …that th~i strange-looking aircraft has never left Bridgeport, Conn. A thor ities are stil…
  • p. 118 …cuss whether the Air Forces has message never a1T1ved. anded," she said. "We could see things…
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~ B E H I N D _ T ·H E · N E W S .- .,
By R ICHARD Ci\RTER
T h e swif t- moving celestial lumi- sky-watch ers cia imed to havl
nosiUes which the America n pub- seen t wo flying cigar-shaped ob
has come to call "flying sa ucers" jccts.
·e phenomena wit h a recorded Cigar-shaped objects havt: be
l ·story da t in g back at least 200 spotted skyward by in nu me ra b
ars a nd perhaps severa l t hou- pa rticipa nts in America's postwa1;
nd. saucery.
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iThe 'Biblical Ezekiel's airborne Flying ligh ts which d iffer in all
wheels, for example, h ad some of a ppa ren t respec ts from shoot.ing
the ·earmarks of wlrn.t modern stars. meteors. and the like, have
American science fiction readers, ' been seen by multit udes of sailors
televiewers and "cold worriers" a re over th e centuries. a nd their ae
on t he V'erge of regarding as inter- .counts of the phenomena diffel
planetary scouts or missiles from h ardly at all .from those contrib
Moscow. • uted by recen t viewers.
Dr. Dona ld H . Men zel, p rofes - Some J>eople see white ligh ts
s or of a strophysics at Harvard moving in formation: others .,ee
University, made this point in kelly green £ire ba lls ; ot hers see
in i11tel'View last month with orange fire ba lls ; others '!;ee fly -
ime ma gazin e. He prod uced fog d is ks ; others ,;ee the cigar-
ocumentary evidence that t here shaped mysterie_s_. Some of tlie
•as a saucer scare in Chicago objects seem to hover, "irtua lly
n A.1~ i! JO_ 1'!97, wl1en ma n.f"r~nlinued on Pa§la na tion availah '
is one known to ·a n yone who h.
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du-you see a ll kin ds of im
countable t hing'., on it. It wa
nsider·ed notewor t h y t hat "I~ 01·ce radar in t he sa me t'egio
failed to pick up the lmpuls ,
whic h the CAA now has adde
to flving sa,ucl\r lore.

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