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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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---- Tolson___ • Ladd____ f Sfui eure111t by Air Fo1•e~ - Taucers'1'~ lfi-uman, Otlie1:,Qfficials Deny !To Officials l(nowledge ()f F1'vi]Jo· Saucers raised the question at yesterday's .J,.. ~* meetil1g of the Armed Forces Pol- By John~Gr'""_"'IN:'l'-:-or::::r~JS=------------ icy Council, which includes the Post Reporter departmental secretaries and Joint · J . • Chiefs of Staff. NavY Secretary Top offic1a s and agen~ies of the mild form of mass hysteria, or Francis Matthews and Admiral Government-from President Tru- hoaxes:" . ' Forrest P. Sherman, chief of naval man on down-joined yesterday in Earlier, Pres1den~ Truman an-· operations, as well as other offi an effort to convince the American nounced through lus press secre- cials, assured him the denials were public that "flying sauce rs" do not tary at Key West. F~a., that he sincere ·and truthful. exist. kn~w ab~olutely not hing of such The latest flareup of public in- A formal statement issued by flyrng ob3ects being developed by terest in the saucers resulted from the Air Force last night was most t!1e United States or any ot her' na- statements by Radio Commentator explicit. It declared flatly that: tion. • Henry J. Taylor and the weekly 1. None of the armed forces Is "We are not denying t his be- news magazine United States News conducting secret experiments with cause of any development of secret and World Report that the saucers "disc-shaped flying objects which weapons." s~id Secretar y Charles do exist and are revolutionar~ could be a basis for the 1·eportcd G. Ross. "but purely because we American aircraft probably devel phenomena." '.now of nothing to support t hese oped by the NavY, A Navy spokes- 2. There is no evidence that the rumors." man flatly denied this Monday!. latter stem from "the activities orl ~ efense Secretar y Louis Johnson1 Johnson said he is convinc_ed the any foreign nation." lsatd about the same thmg at a· saucers could not be experiments Evaluation of reports of re- 11ews conference. He told reporters conducted by any other Govern cen "sightings" bears out early ~1e was ''satisfied there is nothing ment agency outside his depart co lusions that all can be ex- 10 the reports." ment because the Pentagon's Re pla ed away as "misinterpretation Johnson said' he had facetiously sea~·ch and Developme~t. Board co• ijof arious conventional objects, a See SAUCER, Page 3, _, ,, 9l dmates all such activity. Despite the denials, new reports of "saucers" continued. At Tipp City, Ohio, nine persons said they saw saucers over the Ail" Force base at Wright Field, early Sunday. Jerry Robinson, a 22-year-old Marine veteran, speaking for the group, said they saw "two brigh lights i n the sky" which later wer discerned as brilliant discs trailin a ~-~n streak of 01·ange flame. Nter hover ing for a time, thel shot. straight up in the air 1md disappeared, he said. Police Chief J . C. Lee of Eliza beth City, 111., reported that "a weird red and blue disc-like ob- ject" whizzed o~er the town early SundaY, "t raveling at a high rate lofspeeu. -=:I ~ Cler.11___ Glavin___ Nichols___ Rosen Tracy____ Harbo____ Mohr ---- Tele. Room_ Nease____ Gandy____
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