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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.

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5'1'5- P.O. Box 5-24. Charleston, S.C. J. Edgar Hoover: I would like to express my opinion on the flying saucers, and guess it will be as good as some did read. OFLYING SAUCERS I can't remember of hearing anything about them until the invasion comes into existence I wondered if the rays could be strong enough to give off a bright object looking apparition No, special reason for sending you my idea just couldn't think of any one else to send it to. Sincerely Florence Whitish 62-83894-007 7 AUG 4 1952 FLORENCE Whitish Note: The handwritten annotations and stamps (e.g., “12-83894 any”, “let ack. let to Oei; cc. Laramie”, “8/8/52”, “12WD:md”, “INDEXED - 50”, “RECORDED - 50”, “EX. - 28”, “FILED”, and the signature “E. B. Brown”) are not included in the main body as they are marginalia or archival markings. If you require those included as part of the transcription, please clarify. Otherwise, the above is the full transcription of the handwritten letter content in reading order.

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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.