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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.
“The Wash”36 pages
• • --- 0... SUNDAY DISPATCH JULY 9, 1950 LONOON, ENGLAND l.'l . fLYINe:~sAUCEfl_1 _ RIDDLE So far fly ing s a ucer s have been tre ated by t he m ajority of British people with incredulity and polite r id icule. But wny ? I have s tudied all the report.s available. I have seen photo graphs-those in the • Sun day Dispatch last week were particu la}y clear-and I believe they are p otographs of d isc-type a ircraft. a rlier pictures published in t e Spa nish Press last April. a1ld al ged Lo have been taken in the Ba learic Islands, migh t have been anytning a nd could have been a leg-pull. I t is not a lways easy to sort the wheat from the chaff. SECRET TRIALS c on tr o I or t r a veiling at prod ig ious speeds, va nish ! n g suddenly, a nd associated with brillian t light, f ringes of flt or fla mes of peculiar colour a d generally rotating or whirling. From ma ny par ts Of t,he wor come these reports. The ve fa ct t ha t their descriptions a re cons istent has led to t heir being d ismissed as hallucinations, d e fective vision. or mild hysteria. lt might be that t he solution of this riddle could lie in a ve\·y u northodox a pproach. and I have wondered if there could possibly be t urbulences set up In our atmosphere which could cause w h i r I i n g " dust devils " of luminous gases caused by jet or other high speed experiments which might be responsible f<?r the generation of small aton11c whirlpools in the atmosphere. Group Three reports suggest that the saucers are high speed aircraft of circular or disc sha pe travcllin.,; at speeds much hi~hcr t ha n those attained by normal planes. 1SAFETY SEARCH H ERE Is no reason at a I T why annular and c1rcula d isc-like all'craft should not have been common objects at any ttme d uring the past 30 years. T he early history of these very unorthodox-looking aircraft was, ironically. based on a search for safety. Before 1910 It had been shown that square and circular sm:faces had very good non-stalling char acteristics llP to large angles. But when powered aircraft arrived it was found that the easiest way to minimise the losses due to the end slip of the iur from the wing Ups was to increase the span o! wiugs while keeping them narrow. This compromise brought other trouble. Earlv plnncs renclleg their stalling angle u t some \;, dr.grers, and stalling must r C'sU,L In a d.ivc since t11e onlv corrcct1; of R stall Is ,1 flight nt. some spr. greater than the stalling sprcd. V,:,rv cnrly in the 1005 - ~ nod there wrrc people_ Vo'l ~' wOuJd not accept thut n1rrrn " ,i ~ - fl_~~.. -11 r,;1 ,T RI•~ OH OED 85 AUG 111950
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