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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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• • -- 0-19 Tolson___ Ladd___-:-- In 0 s tJ 1,1 _) 'Saucer' Mystei 1 .. Is Solved.;·Device Studies Weather One of the Washington area'sl •flying saucers has been track4: down finally. · , Last week a Martinsburg ( . Va.) woman found a mysterious five-foot sqmu·e piece of aluminum covered material on her farm. She wanted to know what it was but nobody seemed to be able to tell and there was the usual speculation about flying saucers. Andrews Air Force Base cleared ui the mystery today. A spokes m n said the object was used by th Air Weather Service. It is at ached to a balloon and sent in o the sky. lIt is then tracked by radar and the direction and speed of the wind calculated. The device is in constant use, the air base said. Nichot~ , Belmont Clegg t' Glavin ___ Harbo ___ Rosen ___ Tracy____ Laugbli.u.n__ Mohr____ Tele. Rm.__ Holloman__ Gandy_· ---, I if ,,_2_-_t_ _:_y - ft NOT H V'.< ' • 1 • : r I I<\ t • 98 AU G1 1 1952 Times-Herald __ Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Mirror -N.Y. Compass- -
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.