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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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• pace-ShipTJ \Yorlrl•Hernld's Xe,1'1!1 ScrTke. Kearney, Neb.-A grain J uyer who said he saw a space ship Tuesday in a field near here and chatted amicably with its six occu pants had more pleasant dealings with the visitors from outer space than with skeptical authorities. The sensational report by R. 0 . Schmidt, about 50, of Bakersfield, Cal., which topped a host of reports across the nation Tuesday of seeing mysterious flying objects, had these conse quences: -State Penitentiarv rec ords showed a •man of' the ~ame name served a term for embezzlement from Scotts Bluff County in the l 930's. Scotts Bluffs Coun- Sheriff Steve W'lrrick id he talked to Schmidt phone and was convinced "saw nothing." 1 ~ - He turned down a chance to take a lie- detector t~st. --2.schmidt was kept up most of the night for questioning. He finally asked for an attorney. Ward Minor of Kearney was named. -Wednesday forenoon he went to the scene of the space ship's landing with investigators from tije Con tinental Air Defense Com mand at Colorado Springs, Colo., Kearney Police Chief Thurston Nelson and Buf falo County Attorney Kenneth Gotobed. They said Schmidt's story "ap peared to be weakening." -Oi l drippings on the ground from the space machine were being ana lyzed at Kearney State College. In ves tiga_tors said the "mys t er 1ous green oil" closely resem bled that in a partially emptied can of co1:1mer cial auto oil found in the b1,Ck of Schmidt's car and a arly-emp1y can f o u n d ~ ar 'the site of the "land- i p;." Schmidt's story came to Story Raises Eyebro f ~ ., · .-~ 11 111 lil!-~\\it:·or1dtil·•Hci,,ra ■,ir.'.s~s.;;•1cc Photo.1ctiiiN••.,. Schmidt (left) and Kearney Police Chief Nelson . . • In "heart-to-heart" talk. S IDI: V I EW OUTSI DE \ l.fN6111: APPROX. /00 'fCIT ' FI..OOR PLAN INSlt>E FAt-1 ,....IN !J£A I N JlOOF '1' COMP ROOF \ The Schmidtnik . • . As described by the grain buyer. light when, white-faced and turn around. Near the shaken, he appeared in Platte River he saw what Kearney Tuesday and asked appeared to be a wrecked to see a minister. Taken to balloon. As he neared ilpolice, he told this story: Schmidt said, his car en Tuesday he inspected a gine conked out. field of milo about two Schmidt said he got ou miles south and a mile east and walked toward the ma of Kearney. When ready to chine. Proximity revealed leave he clrove clown a side road seeking a place to - , (ONV£'l'OR. 10 R,,.O( o tt•t lh1' OMAHA WORLD-HERALD OMAHA, NEBRASKA 11-6-57 WALL STREET EDITION ;+ N tJ'. , .. I..} 1)1£\) iJ.I NOV 22 l95l IS •
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