65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_7
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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Short overview
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Why this is interesting
For initial orientation, the most relevant points are:
- UFO / flying-disc references
- 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
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Page 73 — Reported performance or evidence-related claim
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Source of Reports The majority of reports of aerial phonomona have come from civilians. About 8 percent come from civil airlines pilots, while approximately 25 porcent aro qualified observors, there is no intention to discredit untrained observors. Radar Sightings It is fairly well established that some of these imagos are ground objects reflected from a layer of warm air above the earth (a temporature inversion). Temperature inversion reflections can give a return on a radar scope that is as sharp as that…
Page 74 — Reported performance or evidence-related claim
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Attempts at interception are not made overy time that unidentified images appear bricfly on an Air Force radar scopo. Current Air Force interceptors are short-range, short-duration, high-speed aircraft and can be omployed most offectively when it is possible to track a targot by visual or radar means so that its position in the air at some future time may be predicted with a reasonable degree of accuracy. Methods of Evaluating The first step in evaluating sightings of unusual aerial phonomona is to collect all…
Page 76 — Official handling or agency-context material
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aidt Russians tenant Governor Donalc so-called of Idabo disclosed that Whe have nothing to do na stack of had seen a comet-shaped objecnling saucers; I'll swear te a "wobbling, disappearing, and reappear- to the public. ing." Reports of other phenomena having HE first saucer in.cident occurred ing no vapor trail; some fishermen off amly against the snowAir Force skies; an Oklahoma City man saw a "They flew very close to the mountain- a prospector in the Cascade Moun- tops, directly south to southeast, down tains…
Page 123 — Reported performance or evidence-related claim
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O1 SPACE REVIEW SAUCER SIGHTINGS SY IFSB MEMBERS Exciusive! From Franklin,Indiana and Surrounding Towns SIGHTING NO.4-On the morning of July 28.1952 in the skies to the southeast and at times directly over Franklin, Indiana appeared three strange objects. Their fight was watched by a large number of men of sound mind and character.The following is com piled from a Police report turned in by Capt. Lee Sloan.Patrolman Jack W.Moore and Patrolman Kenneth Rund of the Franklin. Indiana Police Department on Monday morn…
Page 80 — Official handling or agency-context material
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en I'm .nany saucers he said. holding one in my o find to The rancher forwar Ry Wright Field, where it was identified as a remnant of one of the incendiary bal- CARI loons the hopeful Japanese dispatched across the Pacific during the war in an effort to start forest fires. Even pictures taken of supposed sau- cers failed to impress the experts.There was the case of a man in Phoenix, Arizona who spotted a fat gray ob- ject spiralling up and down in the sky at a speed that he estimated at between four and five…