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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.
RECORDED - 36
62-83894-201
October 12, 1949
Mr. Maurice E. Hatten
419 East Main Street
Circleville, Ohio
Dear Mr. Hatten:
Your letter dated October 8, 1949, has been received and in response to your request I am returning it to you at this time.
For your information the jurisdiction of this Bureau does not extend outside the United States and its Possessions. It is therefore suggested that you may wish to communicate with the Division of International Press and Publications, Office of Public Affairs, United States Department of State, 21st Street and Virginia Avenue, Washington, D. C., with regard to the suggestion made in your letter.
Sincerely yours,
John Edgar Hoover
Director
Enclosure
NOTE: The enclosure is incoming letter being returned to correspondent at his request.
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Tolson
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Tele. Room
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Gandy
63 OCT 24 1949
COMMUNICATIONS SECTION
MAILED 11
OCT 12 1949 P.M.
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
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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.