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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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o-19 (Rev. 9-7- 56) ~ cist to Coast Rash of There was an unof,· cial report that Air For personnel at neaJ.'by A · c en, S. C., spotted the ob ject on radar and issued an alert. The object appeared to be a "constant red light," accord ing to Augusta Chronicle ex ecutlve editor Louis Harris, who saw the object from the downtown newspaper build ing. "Lt could have been a tiny red light a short dis tance away or a g igant ic thing at a great dis tance," he said. , 0 . ne witness, J. T. James, eaid he saw the object on two occasions from his home near Aiken. Lt was cigar-shaped, he said, and would alternate from bright to amber and occasionally got out alto- ether. Elsewhere, strange "sauc 1,r'' sightings were r eported. WHITE SANDS NEBRASKA Mlitary authorities ~ppar ntly gave c1·edence to a re At Kearney, Neb., authori ort by an electroni en ties held a "heart-to-heart" Hgineer wh,o said he s v an talk with Rein h o Id 0. object which made car en Schmidt, a salesman, later near thegines stall Whi.te discovered to be an ex-con Sands proving grounds. vict, who said he talked to , tour men and two women in Col. John Mccurdy, Air a transport space ship which Force public relations officer had landed. He said the space a~ White Sands, sa id the en people spoke in English and gineer, James S tokes, 42, will German. be given a thoro medical ex amination and a radiation , Police roped off the area count test. Col. McCurdy where the "whatnik" alleg- said he was "personally sat edly landed and exa mined isfled" With M r. Stokes' r e various impressions and oil port. stains 011 the ground• A Civil Service worker a l At Long Beach, Calif., th ree Lackland Air Force Base i n i\ir Force weather observers, San Antonio, Tex ., said he one of t hem the comma nding saw an egg-shaped object officer of the spotting unit, land in a ravine about 200 late yes terday reported s ight- ya1·ds from him as he drove ing six unidentified, saucer- near the eity. He said his ~haped .flying objects over car engine and lights went Long Beaah Air F orce base. off, and the object took off in a few minutes, enabling The Coast Guard reported h im to dr ive away. eking up an unidentified ylng object on radai- over At about the same time, 1e Gulf of Mexico south of ,the Grou nd Observer Corps ew Orleans. A Coast Guard at Midland, Tex., said it saw ) Tolson ____ Nichols Boardman ___ Belmont ___ Mohr _____ Parsons ___ Rosen ____ Tamm ____ Trotter ___ _ Nease ____ Tele. Room __ Holloman ___ Gancl¥.-'-- - - ~~' ~7~ )/Id~ ---- ~--- Wash. Post and ____ T i mes Herald Wash. News £J - Z Wash. Star __f____ N. Y. Herald _____ Tribune N. Y. Journal-_____ American N. Y. Mirror ______ N. Y. Daily News ___ N. Y . Times _____ Daily Worker _____ The Worker ______ New Leader _____ Date --.i(./.'l....::.-..126~-_,,l"-->..,..?- - ommander said the object a large, red objert and picked aused over the cutter Se- up unlntelllgible cmwersa~ l)ago In the Gull and was on frm on a sound dl'trctor. cu_>, '1e 1•adar scope for ahouf 27 ~ .::> NOV 141957~0 •nute3,
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 124 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.