65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_1
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:
- UFO / flying-disc references
- reported performance, speed, or maneuver claims
- photographs, film, radar, or other evidence claims
- modern mission report
- official handling, Air Force, FBI, Pentagon, Blue Book, or agency context
Selected passages
Page 160 — Reported performance or evidence-related claim
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ing From Norfolk Ledger-Dispa 79-47 Date. Flying Disc'Bigger Than Automobile' Photographed By Youth Who ls Amazed Because No One Else Saw It By GEORGE HEBERT few seconds later didn't look any- The flying disc"was lots bigger thing like saucers. than an automobile," and 15-year- Looked Like Football old Bil Turrentine of 410 West The boy stuck to his football Fourteenth Street, doesn't under-comparison, explaining that the stand why almost everybody in object was sortepf rounded, more Norfolk didn't see it. oval…
Page 184 — Official handling or agency-context material
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CONFIDEN UNEXPLAINED FLYING DISCS 7 July1947 MEMORANDUM FORTHE OFFICER IN CHARGE: 1.At l3054 July l947a radio alert was issued via the Portland City Police Radio advising all cars and listeners that some fast flying objoots were in the air over Portland and vicinity. Upon contacting the radio dispatchor, this agent was advised that Kenneth A. LaDowell, Patrol- Portland Oregon on duty at Preoinot #l,Portland City Police, Southesst Morrison at loth Avenuehad called in advising the dispatcher of the flying objeots.…
Page 157 — Reported performance or evidence-related claim
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ANDARD FORM NO.64 TO DirectorFBI DATE:August 8,1947 SUBJECTFLYING DISCS Re Bureau Bulletin No.42dated July 301947, Series 1947, wherein information is set forth pertaining to flying discs. There is enclosed with this letter a newspaper clipping from the #Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch, dated July 9,1947. The.photograph appearing on this clipping is alleged to represent a flying disc which was observed by BILLy TURRENTINE, a Norfolk school boy, who was successful in photographing the object with his small camera. BILLY…
Page 51 — Reported performance or evidence-related claim
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SEEN IN 36 STATES Seen in 36 States; First published reports of the First sighted June 25 and phenonaeneoccurredJune25. greeted generally with scornful KennethArnoldBoise,Ida., Jet Fighters laughs, the objects have been re- businessman pilot, told of seeing ported every day since by observ- nine of the discs flying in forma- Alerted tion at 1,200 miles an hour over ers in 36 states.Most of the ob- jects were reported seen July 4. the Cascade Mountains in Wash- A few were reported yesterday. ington. SAN…
Page 47 — Official handling or agency-context material
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Saucer'Tales Laws of Eyesight Clarify Buzz in State Reports of Flying Saucers By HOWARD W.BLAKESLEE Many descriptions of move- Disk Found by a Priest Associated Press Science Editor ments of the flying saucers fit New York,N.Y.-The flying with the common maneuvers of Is Circular Saw;Others saucers may be explained by cer- tain laws of eyesight. airplanes, sin gly or in groups. Seen by Milwaukeeans All objects appear round or Some of the maneuvering report- nearly so at any distance close to ed, which took saucers…
Page 4 — Reported performance or evidence-related claim
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said. In Yard and Holds Howard W.Blakeslee Associ- ated Press science editor said the In the wake or tnese new eye- said the Army Airways Communi- illusion. cations Service had reported Iate comments.and explanations,but At any distance which is close yesterday that so far its radar most of them were tinged with a to the limit of how far a person can see, he wrote,all objects appar round or nearly so. Ths Dr. Winfred Overholser nation- strange objects in flight. law of sight covers both small And in the Pacific…
Page 94 — Reported performance or evidence-related claim
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Director,FBI DATE:July 171947 Bont SAC,Los Angeles SUBJECT: RECOVERY OF FLYING DISC", NORTH HOLLYWOOD,CALIFORNIA, JULY91947 On the evening of July 9, l947, a report was received at the Los Angeles Office that a so-called "flying disc" had landed in the vicinity of Radford and Magnolia Streets in North Hollywood, California, the contraption being briefly described as approximately 30 inches in diameter, all metal, disc shaped, and having a radio antenna. It was reported to have burst into flames upon landing. At…
Page 56 — Reported performance or evidence-related claim
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Saucers' Fly Here Other passengers with him also saw it,he said.He gave the name of J.W.Royden of Detrot. De- spite its bobbing, the saucer was Grafton Disc Joke going at great speed, and was out of sight in a few seconds, he said. Rowden is stopping at the Plaza Hotel. DISCS HAD TAILS Erwin Rottman 1328 N.19th St., said he saw three of them, with tails, flying northwest to southeast,as he stood at N.18th and w. Vliet Sts. They turned from gold to another color and then to silver, he said. Frank Phifer, stopping…