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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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--- ------ Mr. Tolson =Mr. E. A. Tamm_ Mr. Clegg Mr. Gl avin Mr. Ladd Mr. Mr. for Clue to 'Saucers Mr. Mr. By Unftcd Press Air Force investigators-skeptical but intrigued are trying today to locate an eccentric inventor 10 more than 10 years ago built two contraptions fu.,hat look like "flying saucers." The disc-type ships, battered and damaged, were found yesterday in an abandoned barn near Glen Burnie, Md., where they had lain untended for nine years. "It is apparent that both ships would give the appear ance of flying discs,'' an Air Force spokesman said. NO REAL PROOF An Air Force officer last night described the two craft as "definite prototypes o.f flying saucers,'' but the service h edged today. A spokesman objected to the word "prototype," saying he Air Force has only reports of what fJying saucers ook like and has never established that such things ac- ually were seen. . . The Maryland inventor, Jonathan ~ !dwell, disap eared in 1940. The only possibility of' arr;.. connection!between his old abandoned devices and the rumored "fly ing saucers" of recent years would lJe in the possibility tin the past two years. But they would like to find out what happened to Mr. Caldwell after he left Maryland and talk with him, if he still is alive. Mr. Caldwell, who would be about 70 today, left the Maryland ·.earm hastily nine years ago, after getting into financial trouble with the state. He took with him his wite and son. Maryland authorities at that time had ordered him to stop selling any more stock in his enter• prise, "Gray Goose Airways, Inc." Previously, he had been ordered to stop selling stock in New Jersey and New York. N OT NATURALLY DISHONEST Robert E. Clapp, who as assistant Attorney General for Maryland, conducted the investigation of Mr. Caldwell's operations in 1940, said in Baltimore today: "Whenever he needed more funds he went out and so.Id stock, and he continued to run the business as tho. it were his own. He wasn't t,he ordina~·y type of frau1 dulent stock salesman. I believe ne smcerely though he had something and I doubt if he thought he was , eing dishonest." For two years Air Force investigators have been run n ing down clues from coast to coast on reports of flying saucers. The Air Force in the main has tal<en a skeptical attitude toward the reports. Its last official report said it just didn't have conclusive evidence that they either did or didn't exist. ONE TESTED HERE Some of the flying saucers have been repo1·ted s0en from the air, but traveling at such high speed as to make pursuit impossible. One military pilot crashed to his death, reportedly while chasing a fJying saucer. One of the craft found in the Maryland barn repol'tedly flew here bri~fly aro~md 1939. It was said to have gotlen only 75 feet m the atr. One ship resembled a helicopter. But instead of :roto blades it had a disc-like device about 16 feet in diam ~ The device resembled two saucers revolving top t etter. SmaU rotor blades jutted from between the two sa~ op. The other craft, named the "Roto-PJane" looked cr~s. a plywood tub about 14 feet in diameter ' The pil t 1 e~ Aro od ~a un °_r ed propellei• -
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