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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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• • -- - --- --- DAILY TELffiRAPH AND MORND.'JG POST APRIL 11, 1950 LONOON, OOLAND FLYING SAUCER !" , REP OR'r '1MAY BE BA LLOON F"rnm Our Own Corresponden t PB.ESTON, Monday. An object whictv they thought might have been a " flving saucer" was seen by th!·ee gi1:1s who were walking along the Preston-Lancaster main road near Preston yesterday afternoon. "It looked like a very bright star in the east. but was brighter than any sl.llr." thev said. One of the girls. Miss Lilian Spen cer, of Pole-street. Preston. said : "It was oval-shaped and resembled the wing of a silver plane caught in the Isunlight. There was no sound of an engine and it had a peculiar swing ing movement." It was going against the wind. An Air Ministry meteorological official pointed out that it wa.s a common error for people to speak of something travelling in a certatn direction when they really meant that i~ was coming from that direc tion. 1f that wa$ t he case here it was possible that the object cou!d have been a metoorologica1 balloon blown over from Northern Ire!Md. Many Londoners reported on AQril that they had seen a " fly. , ucer." Tne Air Ministry explain t at it was a balloon used for pa - c ute Jumping which had brok fr Its mooring at an R.A.F. statJ In xfordshirei.:..- ---==---•~.:, Mt, r 1''.:. Mr. '.'.' a _ nr. 1: _:IMr. Bo!m '!ll __ _ :Mr. Mohr ---- "ele. Room ---- ~r lleaw ___ I •~ G<Indy - -
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.