65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_SUB_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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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 23 — Reported performance or evidence-related claim
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In the analysis ar vestigation of the radar and visual "sightings described, re are some yardsticks whihave been established from experrence and trends to measure ad attempt to determine the source of UFo's. Some of these are general in nature and are subject to change as new scientific and factual information is received. It should be remembered that any object viewed from a great distance appears to be round.Nearly all the sightings reported objects are at a greater distance from the observer than is generally…
Page 121 — Reported performance or evidence-related claim
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MD. lson Mr.E.A.Tamm Mr.Clegg Mr.Glavin Mr..Ladd Mr.Nichols Mr.Rosen Mr.Tracy Mr.Carson of Charleston,S.C.-one of them a Hundreds in 31 States Report remspaper reporter-said a flying Mr.Egan saucer passed over Charleston heac- Mr.Gurnea $eeing Weird'Flying Saucers ing east at 7:20 p.m.Saturday t bout the same time two men Mr.Harbo lbanyOreg.,saw a single digc By the Associated Press |ing radar signals to the moon,"one Mr.Hendon ash southward, halt, and retrace its course before vanishing into a Mr.Jones cloud.…
Page 73 — Reported performance or evidence-related claim
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4-26 Tolson Ladd Clegg Glavin, Nichols Rosen Tracy Harbo Belmont Mohr Tele.Room Nease Hying Saucer Gandy Tracked on Navy Radar Screen MEMPHIS,Tenn.July 13 UP. The Navy studied a report today from two pilots and an electronics instructor who claimed to have tracked a flying saucer or some strange craft on a radar screen for eight miles. Both fliers reported seeing a shiny round object whizzing past their training planes, about 10 miles northeast of Osceola, Ark. last night. Electronics technician G. D. Wehner,…
Page 68 — Reported performance or evidence-related claim
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0-19 Tolson Dadd cregg Glavin Nichol Rosen Reports Plentiful Saucers'Nit Tracy Harbo VI.His space radio was a chunk By Drew Pearson Belmont of metarthat utterly-faitedto Missing GIs pick up a message or even a Mohr Though a large part of the One tragic and unpublicized fact wheeze from space. about the Korean war is that at Tele.Room American public appears to be In the face of this evidence, this writing the Army has only convinced that flying saucers do Koehler still claimed knowledge Nease been able to…
Page 9 — Reported performance or evidence-related claim
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0-19 (Rev.9-7-56 Coast to Coast Rash of Flying Saucer Tolson Nichols Boardman Belmont Reports Floods U.S. Mohr Parsons Rosen Several persons reported seeing a "red ball" hovering over the Tamm Trotter Atomic Energy Comnussion's Savannah River plant near Augusta, Ga Nease last night. Tele.Room Holloman There was an unoffi Gandy cial report that Air Forge personnel at nearby Ark- en,S.C.spotted the ob- ject on radar and issued an alert. The object appeared to be Srants ouiko a"constant red light,"accord ing to…
Page 36 — Reported performance or evidence-related claim
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0-19 SAUCERS HELD Tneory Bolstered Keyhoe's inter-planetary theory afe withheld, and reports which was bolstered by a letter pub- divulge the capabilities of our lished on the jacket of his book SPACE SHIPS aircraft, radar and electronic from Albert M. Chop,former Air equipment are classified. All Force civilian expert on the other information with respect saucer project, who now is with to sightings is a matter of pub the Douglas Aircraft company in lic record, he said. California. BY EX-MARINE Keyhoe maintains,…
Page 98 — Reported performance or evidence-related claim
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Lived Here Several Years Builder Was penter. Flying Saucer riggers said the sauce sisted of a M The helicopte he rotors was designe .rol ge with a ight wingless s a wing after the shp Tolson toa Shad attained cruising altitude. over the cockpit which mounte Story Deflated The rotor would then be stopped he. 6legg. and the ship flown with the con- projecting blades. ventional propeller.He explained, Except for the pancake struc- Glavin however, that this was theory, ture around the inner sections of By Air Force…
Page 10 — Reported performance or evidence-related claim
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-1gRev.9-7-56 rolyinp Slvtehs Tolson Boardma Belmont Tracked 27 Minutes on Radar Mohr Parsons U.S.Cutter in Gulf of Mexico Reports Rosen Tamm Trotter Sighting Mysterious Object' in Sky Nease Tele.Room Holloman Associated Press traveling at an estimated 1o00 of light with no definite shape, Gandy Air Force special investigat and hover above the waters be-method of propulsion.One ors checked a furry of ear-fore it resumed its erratic estimate of its height placed Hier,similar reports. flight. it at 2000 feet. The…