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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.

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RECEIVED-LADD FBI U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE FEB 2 4 01 PM '50 RECEIVED-LETHER FEB 21 PM '50 RECEIVED-ROOM FBI U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE FEB 1 12 29 PM '50 [redacted] [illegible] Note: The image contains faint, partially obscured, and overlapping stamps and markings. The above transcription captures all clearly legible text in reading order. The redacted areas are marked as such, and illegible portions are noted. The faint text at the bottom left is too indistinct to transcribe accurately and is marked as [illegible]. The top right corner contains some faint, unreadable markings. The blacked-out regions are marked as [redacted]. The document appears to be a piece of paper with multiple postal or departmental receipt stamps, likely from the FBI, dated in February 1950. The paper is aged and has some damage, including holes and discoloration. The text is primarily in blue ink, with some red and black markings. The overall condition of the document suggests it is an archival item.

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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.