65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_2
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.
Document Highlights
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Short overview
This file section preserves early FBI material and related records concerning reported flying-disc sightings. It is useful for following early official correspondence, witness reports, and historically important named cases.
Why this is interesting
For initial orientation, the most relevant points are:
- reported performance, speed, or maneuver claims
- photographs, film, radar, or other evidence claims
- official handling, Air Force, FBI, Pentagon, Blue Book, or agency context
- named witnesses, places, or historically identifiable cases
- modern mission report
Selected passages
Page 170 — Reported performance or evidence-related claim
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COPY Upon hearing this response, I turned the aircraft broadside to the object pulled back the plexiglass covering to avoid any distortion, took my camera from the map case, and exposed about 10 seconds duration of eight millimeter motion picture film. During the time the camera was at eye level, I could not see the object be- cause of minuteness of scope introduced by the optical view finder with which the camera, an f.l.9 Eastman, was equipped. Taking the camera away and once again centering my gaze on the…
Page 21 — Reported performance or evidence-related claim
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7July 1947 SUBJacT: Report on Flying Saucers. 1O: Cormanding General 32d AAF Base Unit Bolling Field Washington,D.C. l. Tollowing cre statistics regarding reports by Lour witnesses while in flight in two airplanes. 2. Weather Cavu. Visibility exceptionally good. Scat- tered altocumlus 6o00 feet. 3.Pirst report:time ll45 hours Cs.Alt. of observers S00 feet above the ground. Altitude of saucer 4o0o febt Msle Observed.period -First sighted over Koshkonong, Wiscnnsin. Mlight was obserwed from town of Koshkonog to…
Page 169 — Reported performance or evidence-related claim
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oncern: On the sixth day of Julyl947I received from James L. Brown general manager of the Statesman Newspapers,incorporated in Idaho as The Statesman Printing company, an assignment which was in substance: #Conduct an aerial search of the northwest states in an effort to see and photograph a flying disc. Conduct this patrol for so long a time as you believe reasonable, or until you see a flying disc. In accordance to these instructions, I took the Statesman's airplane, and with Kenneth Arnold as passenger flew a…
Page 194 — Reported performance or evidence-related claim
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TE:9/4/47 Director, SUBJECT: FLYING DISCS CLLANEOUS Continued From Firs Page ported by Rehoboth Pilot r iged from the theory that they were radio controlled flying missiles sent aloft by U.S. milit.ry scien- tists to the suggestion that they rest Wenyon Believes Mystery Discs, might be merely sun light reflected on wing tanks of jet-propelled Iot-Propelled, May Have Caused Big planes. A.B.Cross of ChattanoogaTenn Plane Crash on Memorial Day 34-year-oldwatchmaker, an- nounced he invented the "flying saucer'and…
Page 173 — Reported performance or evidence-related claim
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COPY This image contains all the CONTIDLNTTA information on the document asking them to describe what they saw,before telling them my story, in order to avoid suggestion or inference of a leading nature. They saw the object from the ground) while I was on my second search. They believed the time to have been l4:O0 hours.The object performed in the same erratic manner, they said,as I observed. The above is the extent of the story, and information concerning myself is now in order. I have approximately 2so0 hours…
Page 164 — Named case or witness material
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COPY BY KENNETH ARNOLD The following story of what I observed over the Cascade mountains, as impossible as it may seem, is positively true. I never asked nor wanted any notoriety for just accidently being in the right spot at the right time to observe what I did. I reported something that I know any pilot would have reported. I don't think that in any way my observation was due to any On June 24th, Tuesdayl947I had finished my work for tho Central Air Service at Chehalis, Washington, and at about two o'clock I…
Page 127 — Official handling or agency-context material
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TANDARD FORM NO.64 Director, FBI DATE:9-17-47 TO SAC Portland REPORTS OF FLYING DISCS SUBJECT: SECURITY MATTER -X Refer San Francisco letter dated September 4, 1947. FRED MJOHNsON, Globe Hotel106 NW.First AvenuePortland, reported without consulting any records that on June 24,1947,while prospecting at a point in the Cascade Mountains approximately five thousand feet from sea level, during the afternoon he noticed a reflection, looked up, and saw a disc pro- ceeding in a southeasterly direction. Immediately upon…
Page 52 — Official handling or agency-context material
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BUREAU DATE:8-23-47 SACPORTLAND SUBJECT:FLYING DISCS SECURITY MATTER -X The following investigation was conducted at Canyonville and Myrtle Creek,Oregon on August 121947 RAY VIRGILNATFIELDRoute 1Box 195RoseburgOregon operator of the Tri City AirportMyrtle Creek,Oregon, advised that on 8-6-47 at approximately 6:l5 PM while instructing a student in a take off at the airport, he noticed an object east of Myrtle Creek which appeared to be from 5,Ooo to 8,Ooo feet in the air. The sky was completely clear and…