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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. 12 …Menzel, director of the Harvard College
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CHICAGO--O'HARA AIR FORCE BASSE OFFICERS SAID TODAY "FLYING SAUCE~ S
REPORTS HAVE PICKED UP LATELY• ------.
THE PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE SAID IT HAS RECEIVED 16 REPORTS OF
MYSTERIOUS OBJECTS IN THE SKY IN THE CHICAGO VICINITY THIS WEEK.
BUT OFFICERS . DENIED REPORTS THAT A SPECIAL •FLYING SAUCER• ALERT
~ BEEN ORDERED•
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICERS SAID JET PATROLS NORMALLY ARE ON THE
ALERT •24 HOURS A DAY.•
OFFICERS SAID THE AIR FORCE ENCOURAGES CALLS ON OBJECTS SIGHTED.
TiiEY AID THE REPORTS ARE •PASSED ON TO HIGHER AUTHORITY• FOR
!VALUATION. .
AN OFFICER SAID SOME or THIS WEEK'S REPORTS APPARENTLY STEMMED \
I FROM AN ORPHANAGE PICNIC AT WHICH 5,000 TOY BALLOONS WERE RELEASED.
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Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 124 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.