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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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--- V) .I i-l..,.' ) 0 -~.... \/) ~ >... -~ ...._, '..L.. 0 Swears 1-te Saw Flying Saucer B7 United l'ress One House member who should know said flatly today there is no such thing as a flying saucer. But anotl1er member equally quali fied said maybe not, but he has aeen one himself. Rep. Mahon <DJ of Texas. chair man of the House military appro priations subcommittee, said it just isn't so what they say about those discs. He had no concrete evidence-but the solidest kind or aupport. I President Truman. Defense Sec• retary Johnson. the Air Force and the Navy all backed him up. They said none of the armed ,ervices is messing around with HUcers, and that nobody else is :far far as they knew. The pe[ple, they said, are seeing things. Jl.e Sa.w One --T I J # ReP.'~ gelr (R) of Mich an, is"lli an who says he saw one. A member of Mahon's subcommit tee, he also is a candidate for governor of Michigan when he Isn't helping dole out the money 1t takes to keep the military In business. He said the fact that he saw a flying disc may not be evidence, but it sure was convincing. It happened about 1 p.m. one day last summer at Elsie, Mich. Several other citizens. all of the:tr). gober and well thought of, saw it, too. Two of them chased it in a plane, but the thing un!d'rtunately ::!;~o high and too fast and got Mahon put it this way : "I guess my subcommittee would know if to.ere were anything to this flying sauce1· ousiness. We even knew about the atomic en- =='"'=-=="=~rgy experiments seve!al yeai-s, be• , tore the story was tols, ~ )J Wash. Star - Not Inforr-1.\l!f)l== ==--~ "I am quite sure the military establishment would have told us if they were working on such a thing a.s a saucer. But the fact is they haven't said a word about it." As far as Mahon is concerned the saucer is "just a fanta.sy." ' ~gel said maybe so, maybe n ot. It 1s perfectly true, he said, that none of the subcommittee's wit nesses ever owned up to any con nection with saucers. .But then, as far as he could recall, nobody •ver asked them about it. "I am confident of this." Engel a&ld. "If there are any such things as saucers, they are ours, not aomebody else's. It another coun try were sending them over. I am 11ure the subcommittee would have heard about It." Denials Repeated Ai;r Force and Navy officials I ha.ve been denying the existence] of "flying saucers'\ all along. And & Defense department statement late yesterday reiterated the de hials. But indications were t hat re ports of the mysterious flying ob ject would continue. L. Nobel Rob• inson, managing editor of the U. s. News and World Report said his magazine had expected ' offi. eial denials of Its story that the aaucers ~re a ''revolutionary type of new aircraft," probably built by the Na~r= fVfI'\ 102 INf) " .l' • / t d _ / ..J/ i7 f _ Lj - I p/7 VJ.\ O '.l I, , , . D h .70 0 JUN 30 l 950 Wash. News ,, Tele . Room_ Nease____ Gandy_ ___ Page i mes-Herald -LL Wash . Post • T o l son._ ___ L add_____ Clegg,___ _ Glavin____ ,1.Q T!MES·HE~AL Nichol s _ _ _ Rosen___ _ Tracy_ ___ H a r bo____1 =-... ...."=.;;,'.~~;;:~:~~:~ Moht_____ N.Y. Mirror Date :
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