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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.

July 15, 1952 Mr. Thad W. Culmer II Post Office Box 99 Robinson, Illinois 62-83894-223 Dear Mr. Culmer: Your letter of July 8, 1952, has been received. While I would like to be of service, the subject matter of your communication does not relate to an activity within the investigative jurisdiction of the FBI. I have, however, taken the liberty of referring a copy of your letter to The Honorable, The Secretary of the Air Force, Department of Defense Building, The Pentagon, Washington 25, D. C., who may be able to be of assistance. Sincerely yours, John Edgar Hoover Director Copy of incoming to Secretary of the Air Force by form letter. TEB:pa Tolson Ladd Nichols Belmont Clegg Glavin Harbo Rosen Tracy Laughlin Morr Tele. Rm. Holloman Candy 53 AUG 1 1952 COMM - FBI JUL 16 1952 MALED 18 RECEIVED JUL 15 1952 3:50 PM FBI US DEPT OF JUSTICE RECEIVED TEB Note: The handwritten annotations, stamps, and markings (e.g., “RECORDED - 91”, “62-83894-223”, “53 AUG 1 1952”, “COMM - FBI”, “JUL 16 1952”, “MALED 18”, “RECEIVED JUL 15 1952 3:50 PM FBI US DEPT OF JUSTICE RECEIVED”, “TEB”, and the signature) are included as they appear in the image. The redacted blacked-out regions are represented as [redacted] per instructions. The layout and spacing are preserved as closely as possible in Markdown.

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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.