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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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FARLY TODAY WAS A "PERFECTLY ROUND DISC WHITE IN COLOR AND ALMOST
TRANSPARENT WITH SMALL VAPOR TRAILS OFF'IT LIKE THE TENTACLES OF AN
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HE SAID HE WAS FLYING AT ABOUT 9 000 FEET AND SAW THE OBJECT
"JUS T BELOW A DECK OF WISPY CLOUDS ABOUT 10,000 TO 1s, 000 FEET
DIRECTLY ABOVE US .
"ALL OF US HAVE BEEN FLYING A NUMBER OF YEARS AND WE'VE SEEN ALL
KINDS OF CLOUDS AND FORMATIONS 1 BUT NONE OF US HAD EVER SEEN ANYTHING
LIKE THIS BEFORE" BAL DWIN SAiu.
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WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE

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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.