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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.
CONFIDENTIAL
DIO-111D Serial 38-49
23 June 1949
Subject: Unidentified Flying Objects - Report Of.
observed the objects. This position could possibly be as much as five miles SSW of the position given. Source's location when objects left his visual range was 42°41'N, 119°49'W. Source flew in a straight line between these coordinates.
Location of objects when first observed: 42°38'N, 119°43'W.
Location of objects when last seen: 42°28'N, 119°48'W.
The objects made a slight change of course from quartering to paralleling source's straight line of flight.
REPORTING OFFICER'S COMMENT: It is believed that conventional aircraft, bird balloons, astronomical phenomena, and auto-hypnosis can be eliminated as an explanation for the objects sighted by source. Since source was not flying into the sun and since he is an expert pilot-instructor, VFR/100 does not appear to be a reasonable explanation; nor do reflections on, or irregularities of, the plexi-glass canopy through which source viewed the objects offer a reasonable explanation, because of the wide range of observance of the objects. As far as the reporting officer's comment is concerned (as well as source's own comment) the explanation of source's sighting of the strange flying objects remains a question mark.
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