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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.
"No wings but vertical and horizontal fins on rear 1/3 of the rocket.
"No visable means of propulsion such as propeller, vapor trail, smoke or exhaust.
"The front of the rocket was very sharp with a needle nose, the needle looked about 6" long and was the size of a lead pencil.
"The rear end was blunt similar to the rear end of a jet fuselage.
"I was at 3450 ft. above sea level at the time.
"I was flying my ship ... and was traveling about 100 m.p.h. at the time.
"I was flying a compass course of 60 degrees, and the rocket was traveling almost west at 240 degrees.
"It happened about 2:45 P.M. on the above date.
"The visability was exceptionally good, about 30 miles.
"The yellow object looked very sharp and clearly outlined because of the dark green background.
"If you will refer to the Huntington sectional aerial map this abject was sighted over a very small town named Lubeck, which is about 4 miles direct west of South Parkersburg.
"It appeared to have spent it's force and seemed to be dropping slightly as it passed by, or had been fired or launched from a higher altitude than the altitude I was flying."
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