65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_5
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 UFO-related publication material, clippings, correspondence, and claims that were retained in a government archive file. It is most useful for tracing how UFO reports, contactee narratives, official-interest references, and media claims circulated together.
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
- modern mission report
- UFO / flying-disc references
Selected passages
Page 72 — Reported performance or evidence-related claim
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IOA Caid lro cwBcjo 95-8-6 CONFIDEN PARAPHRASE NOT REQUIRED PRIORITY From: COMGENARMYTHREE Ft MePherson Ga To: Dept of Army for Dir of Intelligence AJACI1-2 2Mar50 Telephone call received from Lt Col Nunamaker Tennessee Military District 1l302 March. He stated that A. There is a radar station near Knoxville which has been in operation about 3 weeks. This radar station is being operated by station WroL of Knoxville. Rrodor B. On 1 March at 2l35 hours the station picked up an object 340 degrees and 18 miles…
Page 147 — Reported performance or evidence-related claim
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DIC/17D4-50 10 Februiry 1950 Subj:lnidentified Phcnorena 2 A suanary of tho information contained incnclosure l) through 8) follcns: a. At 22chC January LT Smith Us pa trol plane commander of P2y3 No A of Patrol Sauadron Cne reportedan unidentified rsdar contact 20 miles north of tho Naval ir Station, Kodiak, Alaskae then this contact was first nndeLT Smith ras flying the Kodiak Security Patrolo At southeist cf NAs Kodiak Lto Snith checked with the control tower to Durig this neriod the radar operatcr G.sker ALC,…
Page 57 — Reported performance or evidence-related claim
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ity. Cwlejo NND90986 50 PARAPHRASE NOT REQUIRED AN PRIORITY From: COMGENARMYTHREE Ft McPherSon Ga :OL Dept of Army for Dir of Intelligence Nr: AJACI 1-2 2Mar.50 Telephone call received from Lt Col Nunamaker Tennessee Military District 1l30, 2 March. He stated that A. There is a radar station near Knoxville which has been in operation about 3 weeks.This radar station is being operated by station WRoL of Knoxville. B. On 1 March at 2135 hours the station picked up an object340 degrees and 18 miles from Knoxville…
Page 99 — Reported performance or evidence-related claim
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u.S.News & World Report VOLUME XXVIII-No.14 WASHINGTON,D.C FLYING SAUCERS-THE REAL STORY: U.S.BUILTFIRSTONEIN 1942 Jet-Propelled Disks Can Outfly Other Planes Observers of "flying saucers" tics. Similar fying-saucer projects were ened stability of the wingless craft re- begun in Germany and Italy at the same quired more research. aren't just seeing things.They're time, in 1942. Present flying saucers apparently real-aircraft that conform to ac- The first U.S. model, designed by have overcome this problem of…
Page 100 — Official handling or agency-context material
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U.S.News & World Re ing in still others. The saucers appear to FACT: THESE DESIGNS, AND LATER ONES ARE REAL have the power to coast long distances, thus saving on fuel consumption. Direction of the aircraft and its veloc- ity,in turn evidently are controlled by the angle at which the jet nozzles are tilted, the number operating, the power applied. By choosing which nozzles to turn on or off and the angle of tilt, the pilot could make the saucer rise or de- scend vertically, hover, fly straight ahead. or make…
Page 70 — Reported performance or evidence-related claim
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RMY STAFF COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE FB1 Redp CWB 3-6-0 PARAPHRASE NOT REQUIRED PRIORITY from: COMGENARMYTHREE Ft McPherson Ga To Dept of Army for Dir of Intelligence Nr AJACI-3-33206 3 Mar : Reference our TwX AJACI-1-22nd Mar supplementary report follows: 1.AAt 2130 hours on 2nd Mar radar station picked up 2 objects 3l0 degrees altitude 8oooo feet,ap proximately 18 miles from Knoxville in general direction of tions. 3rd Mar station picked up object moving same direction, locality and altitude. C Density of object…
Page 86 — Reported performance or evidence-related claim
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SENGER 8/317) March 14,1950 Date: To: Atomic Energy Commission Building T-3 16th and Constitution AvenueN.W. Washington,D. C. Attention:.Mr.Franeis R. Hammack Acting Director Division of Security John Edgar Hoover, Director -Federal Bureau of Investigation From: SubjeCt:UN KNOWN OBJECT OVER OAK RIDGETENNESSEEMARCH 1,1950 STUART ADCOCKINFORMANT VITAL FACILITIES INTERNAL SECURITY Stuart B. Adcock, operator of Radio Station WRoL,Knoxville is reported to have detected on his radar equipment an object directly over…
Page 174 — Reported performance or evidence-related claim
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July l 1950,b)7D)of known reliabilityadvised that at l:00 a.m. July l, l950, at North Chicago, Illinois east intersection of 22nd Street and the Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad and Chicago Northwestern Railroad tracks,b)(7)(D) (b) (7)(D) he observed one cigar-shaped object about five feet in appearance from his viewpoint, traveling from northwestern to southeastern direction at an excessive rate of speed over the Great Lakes Naval Training Center Great Lakes,Illinois. According to the in- formant,…