65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_4
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
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Why this is interesting
For initial orientation, the most relevant points are:
- reported performance, speed, or maneuver claims
- modern mission report
- UFO / flying-disc references
- official handling, Air Force, FBI, Pentagon, Blue Book, or agency context
- photographs, film, radar, or other evidence claims
Selected passages
Page 4 — Notable source passage
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PD62-1531 Chief of Police LEON V. JENKINs advised that he was travelling south on N. Williams Avenue near Russell St.when he and Officer H.S.RANEy, his driver, received a call on the police radio requesting District l4 to attempt to observe an unknown object in the sky reported by officers in District 18. JENkINs observed what appeared to be a round silver object, about l0,ooo feet high, travelling northeast to southwest. It was directly to JENkIN's left when observed first.He thought it was a weather balloon.…
Page 2 — Official handling or agency-context material
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Office-MemurwAum.UNITED sT JOVERNMENT TO DIRECTORFBI DATE:October 91947 ROMSACPORTLAND SUBJECTFLYING DISCS SECURITY MATTER-X. Reference is made to Portland teletype dated September 13,1947. Records of the Radio Dispatcher, Portland Police Department, reflect 1947 was received from officers in District l8, which is in the extreme north- east section of the city at 5:2l P.M. The log further reflects that at 5:23 P.M. the radio requested District l4, which is further south, to attempt to locate and identify the…
Page 84 — Photograph, film, radar, or evidence-related material
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Mr.Clegg TO DIRECTOR FBI Januar FROM SAC KNOXVILLE SUBECT: "FLYING SAUCERS"OBSERVED OVER OAK RIDGE AREA INTERNAL SECURITY -X There are being submitted herewith two photographs of reputed saucers'which were seen at Oak Ridge,Tennessee, sometime during July 1947 All of the information contained in this letter was received from Mr. GEORGE RATHMAN, Chief Investigator, Security Division, Atomic Energy Conmission and Colonel C. D. GAssERResident EngineerAir Material Command United Statos Army who is the principal army…
Page 96 — Reported performance or evidence-related claim
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n that Mr. PERsoN has private property an airport which he purchased from the government) right by the location of the disc. Mr. PERsON thought the disc might have been launched from his airport, but whether that was it or not- we don t know.Mr. PERsON said he usually flew at an altitude of about 8,ooo feet and, of course, he flew lower in some spaced. He did not mention his altitude at the time he first saw the dise. The disc was located practically just outside his property and we were going north so it would…
Page 88 — Reported performance or evidence-related claim
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se missiles with another type of aircraft. This. report, according to him, took place a short time prior to the report of numerous discs over the United States, and the report emanated from Czechoslovakia. This report was that a Czecho- slovakian transport had collided with some unidentified missile while in mid-air disintegrated without recovery of parts or survivors from either. It was the belief of Colonel GAsseR that this undescribed missile was perhaps the same type of thing as the flying saucer. Another…
Page 145 — Official handling or agency-context material
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rence is made to San Antonio letter to the Bureau dated March 22, l949 which submitted information related by military authorities concerning unconventional aircraft. The Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2, 4th Army has advised that at ll50 P.M. March 3l, 1949 a lighted object about the size of a basketball, reddish white in color,followed by a fire trail, was observed southwest of Killeen Base adjacent to Camp Hood Texas. The observation was made by lst Lt. FREDERIck W. DAvIswho was in charge of a…