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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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• • ~g Red Trail ' "They passed swiftly," he saJd, " in a southerly direction and aP peared to. be ' In line astern ' with a long red trail to the rear . . . both lights seemed to fizzle out as I watched them-they were In a clear patch of sky when this hap pened .•. I heard no sound." ·" Two large circular objects travelling south in a horizontal position looking something like large white flames " is the descriP tion given in the Western Morning News of what Mr. Arthur N. Beame. 55-year-old estate agent, of Southfield-avenue. Preston, Devon, saw at Paignton at 11 p.m. on Monday. Members of the crew of a liberty boat plying between Flagstaff Steps, Devonport Dockyard, and H.M.S. Defiance are also' reported in the Western Morning News as having seen "circular objects travelling at an incalculable speed and emitting a trail oJ fire " late on Monday night. T1-,,,~uay H eral4. §-""!!'"~ quot.es four other people who saw .similar objects. Bluish Light tFrederick Bray_ fisherman, age 39, was lying in the bunk of hi boat in Torquay outer harbour when he saw a " bluish-white light" appear over Princess Pier at about 11 p.m. " I watched the flames for about ten seconds. They seemed to surround a roundish ob ject which was travelling towards Thatcher Rock" (to the East). While walking along the sea front to Torquay Station, Mr. D . Jeffery, of Winner-street, Paignton, saw something in the sky. "I thought at first it was a rocket fire work," he told the Herald Express. "Then I noticed it was maintain ing a constant speed at a constant height ... It was absolutely silent. It seemed to disintegrate suddenly a nd disappear." A "ball of bluish-white light ., was seen at about 11 p.m. in the sky abovef Paignton travelling south towards Brixham. Mr. Harry Cove-Clark, of Marine-drive, Paignton, said : "The ball of light was preceded by a thin blue blur which was overtaken by the main body. 1 Like Feeble Rocket ' "Then another bluish-white light appeared and a broken stream of lights seemed to fall from it. They all seemed to be following each other straight across the sky, then there was a spurt of flame from th~ end of the broken pieces-just like a feebJe rocket." The last of the witnesses, Mr. H. Warren, of East-street, Torre, Tor quay, saw from his bedroom win dow an object "going towards Brixham, due soutli of Torquay." Describing it in a letter to the Paper he said : "I though ~ -~ ~~ ht,- cthree s tars with a Ion a Light trailing behind them... 1
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