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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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What Did The
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Last Week?'
By Sunday Dispatch Reporter
WEST OF ENGLAND newspapers gave much
publicity last week to reports of " flying
sa ucers " over Devon.
The saucers were reported by a number
of independent witnesses from places as far
a part• as Woolacombe (near llfracombe),
Exeter, Cullompton, Sidmouth Junction, and
Po ignton (60 miles south of Woolacombe).
Eye witnesses' descriptions of what they saw are sub
t ntiallY in agreement-th ere was no rnuise and a trail
s/fire streamed from the back. The observations were at
0 bout 11 p.m. in all instances.
a Mr J. Stewart. 70-year-old oolacombe pensioner, who
worked in aircraft fac.-
has . t wo wars, was one of
t or!e~,Ye1 people who told the
t he ter Ex press and Echo what
Ex; n a d seen.
t h Y On Monday evening, he
A.t 10.so object come insnore
noticed a ndirection of the north
from f tf endYat a " terrific speed."
I end O Hu A Franklin, of Beacon-
.Mr. •. ton near Exeter, wrote
Jane V'{h1P . that while at Coun
to the pa.P({wo miles ~outh-east of
tess wea1 1',1ondaY night, he saw
:Exete~\irar objeC~·
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sUNDAY DISPATCH
LONDON' ENGLAND
11- ,5-50
• 'Tht-y were of a brillia.nt sil
v y blue. travelling south, one be
hind the other In close formation: •
he said.
" After passing overhead the
rear object appeared to catch up
with the front one and collide
whereon they disintegrated." '
Bright Disc
T he object was described by Miss
J .. spurway, of Exeter-hill° Cul
Iompton (12 miles north-eas t of
Exeter) 1 as " a bright disc travel
ling with a circular movement a t
great speed."
Two and a half miles north of
Exmouth, the object was seen at
11 p.m. br. Mr. and Mrs. L. Mus
, sell, of H1ll-crest, Lympstone. who
, described it as having been in ~wo
parts " apparently attached in
some way with a lighted tail."
The sixth witness quoted in thll
Express and ,Echo is Mr. A. J.
Powell, of Sidmouth J unc:tion, who,
while between Patterson's Cross,
Otlerv St. Mary and Sldmouth
Jnnc(ion at 11 p.m. on Mondav,
, saw " two brilliant wh.l~J.!.!:.!l[s
t.ome 11no view to the ncinh-west,
from behind a bank of mist.
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