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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 d"~-=--✓G1:!fn____ Harbo ___ Rosen ___ _ Tracy____ Laughlin__ Mohr _ ___ Tele. Rm.___ Holloman ~~ 1.ey're in tbe Sky Again R,adar Spots More Mystery Objects Here, Fliers Report ~igl1ti1~g Glo,ving Lights _\Y,<1shingt_on ...:::c:tect anol!!._e..:J_away. The iloL said he wasn·t I lighted end of a cigaret.· or a v1s1t l~ t..E.!11~ from t1ie uui~ ble to close qn__th9.!ll. and the cluster of orange and red lights. ti~erial objects ~n:ilar lo 1~ 'reall~ 1n.,ovin?." He lost Radar operators plotted their t~ ~..9rtcd here_ last Mond~Y· isight of them two mrnutes later. speed al from 38 to 90 miles per At least a dozen of the mys- The same pilot observed a hour. They were not able to de- terious objects were reported to steady while light 10 miles east termine their altitude. Some 49 P- 111 have b22n seen glowing in lh~ of M?unt Vernon _at ll: • pilots reported fl ying over them sky within a 30-mile radius of The _light, abo~t five miles ahead and some under them . . of lum, faded m a mmute. . st ., • • • the city. 'tlWJ~ ~ !l.Jl1cked The inter ceptors did not sight Befote l~ we~k s i epor.L Q.[ t!JLQ.!L 1J1e radar sc~e~n of t he any more lights after that. Al- ,1e . myst~nous ,,hghts, so-~alleg CAA Air ""Rot~ _Traffic.J:;_ontrol Ithough the radar screen still rs ar~ believed_. ceqte..i.:.. at WashJngtQ!l. Naticinal picked up the objects. One l\e~ to.l1lJ.Ye_ ~ n_p1cked t!_p on ~ i,!11...QLt.... --- 1plane landed shortly before mid- radar ...S c re_e.JL§: • T_he O?Jects - At. 11:25 p. m., two F-94 jet \' night, and the ot11er about 12:15 show. !! on the NationaT /\Jrp~rr fighters were sent up by the a. m. !;aa_ar,,,lfowever , caused defimte Air Defense command to inves- It was the second time these bhn..s on the screen, wlucii tigatc the lights. Tlli ~ilots re- , objects have been picked up by eans contacf with solid ooj~cts, ported seeing th<L...:.!JU~ radar. Last night's visitors rather than hghts 01· r: '\ect1ons. wei·e 11ot able to get any""2!oser•showed up first on the screen A CAA spokesman ' d the ob toUiefo- tfiari aoout7mi1eS:- -tat 9:08 p. m. and rema»ied for jects picked up last night gave --,,;e Set pTio'ts descrioecrthe some time. fr off blips similar to those of reg- lights as hatd to see and track 1 Airline, private and military ular aircraft. down. 1pilots all reported seeing them. '.Cbe ,t.ir Force has been invcs- Ai 11:33 p. m ., one jet pilot , Some _pilots said they came with- tig_ating'last wecl<'s objects. It observed four lights in the vicin- 1i_n two or three miles or the ob- ~aid rgports of flying '\itY of Andrews Air Force base. Jecls. this, saucers -~t - mont11 have b een (he 11· 'l'lle lights were about 500 feet 'rhey were variously described es.t..sl11.ce 1947, when they above him and about 10 miles as looki ng like blue lights, the were seen. - ~ . Times-Herald ~ Wash. Post ..J.M._ Wash. News -Wash. Star N.Y. Mirror -N .Y . Compass - - -
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