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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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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE COMMUNICATIONS SECTION DEC - 8 1950 TELETYPE FBI, RICHMOND 12-8-50 12-09 PM MEW DIRECTOR URGENT RE FLYING SAUCERS. THIS OFFICE VERY CONFIDENTIALLY ADVISED BY ARMY INTELLIGENCE, RICHMOND, THAT THEY HAVE BEEN PUT ON IMMEDIATE HIGH ALERT FOR ANY DATA WHATSOEVER CONCERNING FLYING SAUCERS. CIC HERE STATES BACKGROUND OF INSTRUCTIONS NOT AVAILABLE FROM AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, WHO ARE NOT AWARE OF REASON FOR ALERT LOCALLY, BUT ANY INFORMATION WHATSOEVER MUST BE TELEPHONED BY THEM IMMEDIATELY TO AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE. CIC ADVISES DATA STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL AND SHOULD NOT BE DISSEMINATED. AUERBACH RECORDED - 81 EX-46 12-11 PM OK FBI WA NRJ 65 DEC 19 1950 [Handwritten annotations and markings throughout the document, including names, dates, and notations such as "ad 4-11", "Vr", "G. I. R-1", "62-83894-060", "DEC 13 1950", "5-24", "ec Hennich", and others.]

Cases discussed

The Green Fireballs over New Mexico 1948
green fireballs, discs and meteors in the vicinity of sensitive installations in New Mexico
The Lubbock Lights 1951
the Lubbock Lights, which appeared in the sky near Lubbock, Texas, last summer

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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.