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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 005

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 209 pages · text by OCR, confidence 95%

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From the source:Release of 2026-05-08 Incident: N/A, N/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.

Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT DATE: June 29, 1950 TO: DIRECTOR, FBI FROM: SAG, WASHINGTON FIELD SUBJECT: FLYING DISCS INTERNAL SECURITY - X This is to advise the Bureau that on June 25, 1950, DOUGLAS HARRISON, 5337 Laramie Place, N.W., telephone 5191, and who is employed at the Hot Shoppe, Connecticut Avenue, N.W., informed that at 9:52 am, that date, while looking out of the window of his residence he saw what he believed to be a flying saucer. He described this object as resembling a cigar, the end of which was filled down toward the earth and presenting a silver appearance. He estimated the height of this object as from 50 to 75 thousand feet, and stated the size at that distance appeared to be about four inches. HARRISON could furnish no further details other than to state the object appeared to be moving in an easterly direction. He advised that this is the first flying saucer he has ever seen. The foregoing is being furnished for the information of the Bureau and no action is being taken by this Office. KTD:pb 100-0 RECEIVED JUL 7 1 57 PM 50 U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE RECEIVED JUL 6 10 30 AM 50 FBI INTERNAL SECURITY - SN

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Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model (mean confidence 95%); expect the odd misread word. 209 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.