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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.
SECURITY INFORMATION - CONFIDENTIAL
RECORDED-29 62-83894-892
EX-129
Date: August 13, 1952
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: ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION WRITTEN
IN THE GERMAN LANGUAGE, RECEIVED
BY THE "CINCINNATI ENQUIRER"
PERTAINING TO "FLYING SAUCERS"
SECURITY MATTER - X
There is attached for your information
and any action you desire to take in this matter
a Photostat of a letter, written in German, received
from an anonymous source, which was addressed to the
"Cincinnati Enquirer." A Photostat of the envelope,
in which the letter was forwarded, is attached and
indicates it was mailed on July 31, 1952, at
Cincinnati, Ohio.
For your further assistance in this matter
a translation of the attached letter from the German
is attached.
Attachment
DECLASSIFIED BY 1259
ON 10-28-74
33916.0
EHM:kc
Tolson
Ladd
Nichols
Belmont
Clegg
Glavin
Harbo
Rosen
Tracy
Laughlin
Mohr
Tele. Rm.
Holloman
Candy
MAILED
AUG 14 1952
COMM. FBI
SECURITY INFORMATION - CONFIDENTIAL
58 AUG 29 1952
RECEIVED
AUG 13 5 11 PM '52
F B I
ROOM 15
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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.