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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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- - ·fliint5aucer'I Story Deflated By Air force Experimental Craft Will Be Examined For Other Clues fl ·The Air Force·s long search for "flying saucers" has turned up two contraptions almost as weird as anything, yet descnbed by the most wild-eyed "witnesses" of two sum mers ago. .11elct for the examination of ex perts are two weather-beaten remnants of an inventor's dream uncovere e e • m a tobacco she ne 1 urme, ., an outer suburb of Baltimore. An official Air Force statemett jssued today said "the two e - perimental aircraft found ne r Baltimore yesterday have abs lutely no connection with the re ported phenomenon of flying sau- ers." This does not mean, how ver, that they will not be xam!ned for other clues by Air orce representatives, it was said. The r • s are more than 10~ years' old, and so far as can e determme . only one of them ever jgt off the _ground under Its own ' power. This occurred in Wash .,i.!)K almost ·ears aao and ended in near-disaster after ~ flight of about 60 seconds. - Pilot Tells of Test ~ll,- ~ The inventor. J ~ ~a well, who is now over 70, if still J(vfug, and his wife and son left Glen Burnie in 1940 after Mary land authorities ordered Mr. street N.E., no": _with . tile Civil Aeronaut ics Admm1strat1on at Na , tional Airport, ' made the first and only test hoP in Mr. Caldwell's h elicopter, the Gray Goose, at the old Benning R!lce. track in 1940. Mr. Driggers said he helped de sign the helicopter. TJ1 e macl1ine rose about 40 feet and after some 60 seconds in the air, Mr. Driggers became aw~re the controls were not operating properly, he told The Star_. He decided if he took 1t an:v gher he might not get do!~ afelY and he crash landed . 1 he race track. He was unu - red. but the machine was da • -E..ue.g, i,Lived Here Several Years. Builder Wa. ,.. rpenter. M..riggers said the sauci· The helicopte sisted of Jro e rotors was des1gne l ght wingless 1ge witl~ o ac s a wing after the sh ropeller' in front and a tnpo ad attained cruising altitu • ver the cockpit, which mount~ The rotor would then be stopp he saucer-like rotor and 1 and the ship flown with the con- projecting blades. ventional propeller. He explained, Except for the pancal ment·of these comPam_es indicate. t-: that they were organized merely 84 SEP 2 3 1949 for the purpose of raising money to develop the ideas of Mr. Cald well. and that as soon as this money w~s raised, it was trt!atea. as belonging solely to him and as the subject of any use which he deemed proper. "No meeting ot stockholders ha e~er been held by either company and no financial report to stock holders has e@o.CS2!!le ou~ sinci organization." A .' ~ ~ n // '~ gg_ ___ Glavin , !', Nicho lr~ Rosen--'-- - Tr a c y ____ Barbo_ _ _ _ Mohr____ Tele. Ro om_ I
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