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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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J,/7 ,, AUG 1. C 'Btlffg_Sau iiiicked on Navy Radar Screen MEMPHIS, Tenn., July 13 CUP) . The Navy studied a report ·today •:from t wo pilots and an electronics instructor who claimed to have tracked a flying saucer or some strange craft on a radar screen for eight miles. Both fliers reported seeing a shiny round object whizzing pa.st their training planes, about 10 miles northeast of Osceola, Ark., last night. Electronics technician G. D. Wehner, who wa-s flying with en•i li9ted pilot R. E. Moore, said he "caught it on the radar scope. It was helmet-shaped. The outline of the edges were all right, bit lare from the center of it p • ented getting a better look." flrst Thought Jet "At first we thought it• was a jet plane distor ted by glare off the aluminum b~dY," said Lt. (j ,g . ) J. w. Martm, the second pilot. "When I first spotted the saucer it was about two miles off and appea.red to be a round ball. It was in sight for about three min- utes and at _one time we were within one mlle of it." • Moore said, "It was on our left and traveled across in front of us and disappeared ln the distance to our 1·ight. I think it would be about 25 to 45 feet across and about seven feet high. "The thing looked like a World War I helmet seen from t he side. or 11, shiny &'hallow bowl turned upside down. We wanted to fol low it, but our training ships couldn't keep up with the saucer, or whatever it was." The pilots,. based .at t he Milling. t on n aval all' station n ear he1·e, estimated the object was Hying at 11n alt(tucle of 8.000 feet nt a speed of 200 miles per houl'. The navy dcl'llned comment. Similar !lying saucer stories hi!"- hru;,u discounte4r4,Y~u , rmed forc_es_·~-- 4-26 Tola on.____ Ladd.____ Cleg.,,.g____ Glavin.____ Nichols___ Rose n.____ Tra cy._____ Barbo.____ B e lmon t ___ Mohr _ _ ___ Tele. Room_ Nea se._____ Gandy____ ( } ~ ~'") ~ 00 ~ J A,_ ]... , Si .J O / ~ - ~ -i ti __ ~ ;-:;~I'RFl0OltDli1D 1'1' 0 '7~ A\JG 19 195 Page - Wash . News Wash . Star N.Y. Mirror
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.