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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. 3 …er ald Th e Washing ton Dally Ne w s __ The Evening Star _ ___ _ _ N e w…
  • p. 5 …beyond the range of current Jung said. scientific knowledge or pose a "The discs do not…
  • p. 9 …C., spotted the ob ject on radar and issued an alert. The object appeared to be…
  • p. 10 …netwo of the Ail· Defens ( I1arters that the object w Se YSTERY, A6, Col. 3 Wash…
  • p. 12 …Menzel, director of the Harvard College Observatory, said yesterday in Cambridge; Mass., that the whole thing…
  • p. 13 …The Air Force described the flow as "radiation vapor." . F__..____.'-- --,: '\a.:;: J- '""'- ( /\ ' t(I ft,~ - Wash…
  • p. 17 …Room __ Holloman ___ Gandy _____ Wash. Post and ____ Times Herald Wash. News ____ _ _ Wash. Star ,M I N. Y…
  • p. 18 …Room - - - Holloman ----- Gandy------ Wash. Post and --- Times Herald Wash. News---- Wash. Star _ _ ___ N. Y . Herald ____ Tribune…
  • p. 20 …So the Air Force reached into "Confidential Files its nonclassified files and _plucked "Wash., D. C…
  • p. 23 …ashtrays to wash basins , have been photogr·aphed wh+1e sailing thrpugh :the air. Many su…
  • p. 30 …reduce the n mber of flying saucer stories. Times-Herald l ash. Post Wash. News lash…
  • p. 34 …By the time ported off the base on pass last band it arrived, the mystery ship…
  • p. 35 …t1e~~-- Times-Hera~ Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Herald Tribune - {I N.Y…
  • p. 36 …pccifically, Keyhoe claims the Times Herald Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star , { 1 / - l1 N. Y…
  • p. 37 …using the air over the United The final chapter is yet to b Wash. Post5t written…
  • p. 40 …the saucers ~r.Y'e\,u e om o !I • 0-19 Times Herald Wash. Post…
  • p. 42 …at high altitudes, the bal- The balloon flights have coll-; to earth. .....~--· ~· ------- --- ~-~ --- ~ Wash . PostINDEXED - 81 J…
  • p. 43 0-19 ,f' Pilot" Sights Small Flying Oise Chasing F-84 Over Japan By the Associated…
  • p. 48 …Rm. _ _ Holloman__~ ' Gandy """ - {)I 1.V . ~ Times-Herald -Wash. Post Wash. News -Wash. Star N.Y…
  • p. 55 …Pentagon Wash. News ala;·m . ' but meanwhile, USAF somehow was surre_ndering to the planes were…
  • p. 57 …lIt is then tracked by radar and the direction and speed of the wind calculated. The…
  • p. 58 …blue lights, the were seen. - ~ . Times-Herald ~ Wash. Post ..J.M._ Wash. News -Wash. Star N…
  • p. 63 …News Wash . Star ---N.Y . Mirror ne~ota, convinced Dr. Liddel n mo1·e, the magazine…
  • p. 69 …Room_ ~:;:~;__,.__ S:· oc.., 1 4 1950 Times-Herald Wash. Post Wash . News Wash. Star N,Y…
  • p. 73 …The outline of the edges were all right, bit lare from the center of it p…
  • p. 80 …al yeai-s, be• , tore the story was tols, ~ )J Wash. Star - Not Inforr-1.\l…
  • p. 85 …flame from the rear. It zoomed int.o clouds, Its Jet or prop wash rocking our…
  • p. 92 …Terrific pressure 1s set up and the expanding gas forced out thru the jet pipes. _ . "The…
  • p. 94 …Pos t l~u/_liNOT REOORDED 75 FEB 8 1950 Wash. News Wash, Star --- N.Y…
  • p. 98 …ever jgt off the _ground under Its own ' power. This occurred in Wash .,i.!)K almost…
  • p. 106 …of the VFW • that he might havt: "within a few bours" an explanalion from Wash ington…
  • p. 116 …lf/:1'J.~~ Wash .. said the "saucers" cam down in timber near st. Maries Thursday evening…
  • p. 118 …editor, said the ago, long before Ute saucers scare. saucer-shaped but resembled wash- skeptical," he…
  • p. 120 …Penn i ngton the country, from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico -The words of the…
  • p. 121 …grew as h • "like the tail of a kite," over Wash- an r ts of things…
  • p. 124 …the southern suburbs neither an airplane, a cloud nor a of Portlan'd. Clark County (Wash…
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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.
e1· ha d a nything to dq wit 1
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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