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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 006
Federal Bureau of Investigation · 271 pages · text by OCR, confidence 97%
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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.
INTERVIEW # 1. WEDNESDAY -- APRIL 24, 1952 -- PROJECT EYEFUL
NAME: Mr. Donald F. Stewart, ADDRESS: 224 Warren Avenue, Balto. 30, MD.
TELEPHONE NUMBER: Saratoga 1423, AGE: 23
EMPLOYMENT: B. and O. Railroad ---- Clerical Work
DATE OF OBSERVATION: March 29, 1952 PLACE: Ritchie Highway-- Harness Track
TIME OF OBSERVATION: 10:45 P.M. WEATHER: Clear --- MOON and STARS OUT
APPROXIMATE LENGTH OF OBSERVATION: TWO MINUTES
ESTIMATED ALTITUDE: 200 FEET
DESCRIPTION OF INCIDENT:
At approximately 10:45 P.M. on Saturday, March 29, 1952, near the Harness Track on Ritchie Highway, The above in company with a Mr. George Tyler of East Montgomery Street in Baltimore, witnessed the following:
A sound similar to a vacuum cleaner attracted attention. Upon investigation, while traveling north toward Baltimore, a strange object was proceeding in the sky in an approximate north-south direction. It appeared to be moving very slowly (considerably slower than a commercial airliner).
WITNESS SKETCH ATTACHED ------
This object was estimated to be at least as large as a two motored transport plane. It hovered directly over the highway and over the automobile. After approximately two minutes, it suddenly turned perpendicular with a whirring sound and seemed to roll down the sky with fantastic speed like a rocket.
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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 97%); expect the odd misread word. 271 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.