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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Serial 130

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 126 pages · text by OCR, confidence 98%

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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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4 Final Report of Sighting: General cont'd : SSW. The Captain also told the four gentlemen that he was willing to make a complete report if the information is desired for official purposes. WILLIAM H. SMITH Captain, Air Corps Intelligence Officer. - 2 - RESTRICTED CONFIDENTIAL 14

Cases discussed

The 1947 Flying Disc Craze: America's First Flying Saucer Wave 1947
Multiple July-August 1947 flying disc reports, Birmingham discs 'since June 25'

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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 98%); expect the odd misread word. 126 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.