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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.
62-83894
RECORDED - 122
62-83894-287
Date: August 8, 1952
EX-129
To: Director of Special Investigations
The Inspector General
Department of the Air Force
The Pentagon
Washington 25, D. C.
From: John Edgar Hoover - Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Subject: AERIAL OBJECTS;
"FLYING SAUCERS"
MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING
There are attached two copies of a letter dated
August 1, 1952, from Florence Whitish, Post Office Box 526,
Charleston, South Carolina, regarding "Flying Saucers."
Miss Whitish's communication has been acknowledged
and she has been informed of this referral.
No investigation is contemplated with regard to this
matter.
Attachment
KWD:mes
Tolson
Ladd
Nichols
Belmont
Clegg
Glavin
Harbo
Rosen
Tracy
Laughlin
Mohr
Tele. Re.
Holloman
Candy
66 AUG 14 1952
CONFIDENTIAL
Declassified
2040
8/31/77
(4)
APPROPRIATE AGENCIES
AND FIELD OFFICES
ADVISED BY ROUTING
SLIP(S) OF 2040
DATE 8/14/52
RECEIVED
AUG 8 4 24 111 JL
U.S. DEPT OF
F B I
ROOM
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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.