65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_007
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.
The summary above is sourced from the released file metadata as published to war.gov. The analysis sections below are original to this tracker.
Text of the document
Machine-extracted from the PDF war.gov published (its text layer or OCR), so expect errors, especially in names, numbers and handwriting; the PDF is the authoritative copy. Lines that did not extract as readable text are left out. Showing about 999 words from pages 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 18, 20, 21, 23 of 205.
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fu;c;oR, FBI URGENT FLYING SAUCERS, SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT, AEC . SECURITY OFFICE OF AEC ADVISED THIS DATE THAT TWO EMPLOYEES OF THE E. I . DU PONT COMPANY SAw A BLUE LIGHT WITH AN ORANGE FRINGE SHAPED LIKE A SAUCER FLY OVER THE FOUR HUNDRED AREA OF THE SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT AT APPROXIMATELY NINE THIRTY PM AUGUST EIGHT, FIFTYTWO. OBJECT FLYING AT A HIGH RATE
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Mauston, Wtsconstn Dear JJr. Kane: Your letter dated August 1, 195'?, has promoted your brtn9tng uour observations to my Inasmuch as the matter of the /lying saucers ts betn~ investigated by t he United States copy of your 1 etter to the Di rector of $.~~ial In.ve3it igat ions, municat e dtreotlv with htm. Sincerely youra, John Edgar Hoover Copy by form to Air Force Intelligence. NOTE: Spec~al Agent Samuel Hardy, EOD 3-28-25, GS-12, $8760, assi gned to Minneapolis. ~;~ $10,800, assigned Division II as inspect \~~
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Dear Sir: As a retired member of the St Paul Pol ice Force and having had numerous pleasant contacts with Agent Clintonste.in and Samy Har4Y, I take the liberty of an opinionthat came to me that th~flying saucers scare seems possible that the rel~se..d.. enfil'gLQ~oded A½?mic Bombs could be soaring around in the atmosphere. I know you can channel this thought to ""tlre prupet atrbhoritt~and cer tainly would appreciate your comments on this thouiht. I am a Veteran of both ·.:orld War #1 and #2 and also a member of the American Legion for 32 years. I am presently a member of The American Legion Post #81 of Mauston, .iisconsin which is known as the Burton-Koppang Post. If this thought is instrumental in tracking down the source of this scare thereby releaving some of the tension to our American Country, it may be worth following up at this time. Thanking you very much for your cooperation and consideration in· this matter and will you please acknowledge and advise your can Yours very truly, ./__ Hauston, v-Jisconsin J;O.~~: Personal file
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Mra. Ora ~ygrett Rural Route No . l New Palestine, Indiana four letter dated July 31, 1952, addressed to the War Departnent, c/o Federal Bureau of Investigation, has been Tour interest 1,n fu rri iahing your observation in this regard is appreciated. In view o.f the contents of your comm.uni cation wh ich also appear to be of i nterest to the Department of the Air Force, I have taken the liberty of .furnishing th.at Agency a copy of your 1 etter. Sincerely yours , John Edgar Hoover
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To: Mrecior o/ Special Inueaiigaiiona The Inapecior General Deparimeni o/ ihe Air Force John Edgar Hoover, Dtrec1or Federal Bureau o/ lnueaitgation Subjeci: o,.LIING DISKS There ia aitached a Phoioatai of a ael/ ezplanaioru leiier dated Auguai 5, 1952, ai Poniiac, Jlichtgan received bu thia Bureau /roa Jlichtgan, relaiing to t he capiioned maiier. Jlr. Jenninga' le1ier has been acknowledged and he has been inf ormed ihai a copu o/ hia letter 8 haa been /urniahed· io uour o//tce /or approprtaie aitention. No Juriher act ion t a contemplated in 1his matier b'fl this Bureau. There is no record tden-t;i/ianle wt ih'" J([J9ling~ in ihe Jiles o/ ihe Bureau r
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To: Director of Special Investigations Ths Inspector General The Pentagon From: John Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau o/ Investtgatton Su bject:q,LTING DISKS There ta attached a copv o/ a self b71 thia Bureau from J/r. Benedfcto Roattro, 1647 Part Avenue, New rort Ctty, relating to the and he has been inJoraed that a cop11 o/ hta letter has been /urntshsd to uour oJ/tce /or appropriate attftntion. No further action ts cont~m.plated in thts matter bu thta Bureau. Bureau files fail to reflect any~in~ rmation that can be identified with Mr . Romero. - EbM: Ire
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The Inspector General Deparnent of t he A1r Force The Pentagon Bur eau Jiles Jail to reflect any i,nformati on that can. be i den. tifi~-i· with Mrs. Haufe .
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Office Memoranduni • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION WRITTEN ERMAN LANGTTAGE RECEIVED BY NCINNATI ENQUIRER" PERTAINING Reference is made to a letter from the Cincinnati Office date~ August 6~ 195'2, submitting an anonymous letter in German concerning so-called "Flying Saucers. 11 Attached are 7 copies of a translation of this German material No r eply has been made by us to the August 6, 1952, ·letter .frqm That the Domestic Intelligence Division review the Cincinnati submission and accompanying Bureau translation, for appropriate handling, noting particularly a suggestion in the last I,,aragraph of the Cincinnati letter to consider makif!Jg this informati~ available to other Governmental
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a weapon teoted in 19h4 whieh 1a probably now being produced 1n aerie•, and at thia tiae causes a grat stir, ia av-weapon 1'bich has a round body a1lllilar to a disk haYinu a diameter of about 48-$0 m. On the outer ring it has about li5-SO aut.Qalatic circular noseles which after the ignition of tho disk circulate around a dov:tces !or long-distance steering aro located. In the opbere is still sufficient apace for atom bombs. llhase weapons are in Thlaeian hands and can haw an e.ffect1ve range ot ~.3S,OOO km. ffio conatruotor ot v-weapona FJEDEL 1n German7 atated that it concerns • typical v-weapon on which ho hlld worked b111u1elf. I am aure t.hat tbe truth ie better than a pamc among isnorant people. OPIES DESTROVE D
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To: Dtroctor oJ' ~pecial Snvesttgattons ThD Inspector General New Yor~. r latluc to the captioned otter. JJr . Gallow y' a letter hao bocn aoknowledo d ·o further actton ia coritc olated th 'thte natter by
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Director, FBI SAC., San Diego (100-856.$) BORDERLAND SCmtCES , RF.sEARCH ASSOCIATES San Diego, California; J.m.AD LAINE - Director; YAX FREEOO'J LONG - Director Refe1..ence is made to San Diogo letter dated 8-.S-52 concerning the captioned matter. For the additional information of the Bureau, there is being trans mitted herewith one copy each of the follO'IT.i.ng which were made available to me by FRANCIS OEM, who is a member of the captioned l . Mimeographed letter consisting ot four
Where this file fits in the PURSUE archive
This file is one of FBI's 104 files in the Trump PURSUE disclosure. Within the FBI agency block it ranks #36 of 104 by Anomalousness Index. Across the entire 450-file archive it ranks #200 of 450.
That places it in the lower-scoring band of the archive (200 of 450 by score), typical of investigative-record style files where the report is paper-based rather than instrumented.
For the broader cluster context, this file is part of FBI Case 62-HQ-83894 - the 18-PDF FBI central case file covering 1947-1968. The cluster page walks through all 18 member files with regional grouping, sensor breakdown, and standout analysis.
Anomalousness Index: 58/100
Evidentiary weight that this encounter remains unexplained after conventional analysis. Not a probability of extraterrestrial origin - that number is not honestly computable from the released files and this tracker refuses to publish it.
🤖 AI-ASSISTED SCORING · methodology
The six rubric components break down for this file as follows. Each component has a weighted contribution to the final score; the per-component explanation below describes what this file's particular value on that component means in the rubric's framework.
Reported by a witness with no instrumented record. The lowest tier in the rubric's sensor axis. Eyewitness perception in field conditions, even when the witness is highly credentialed, scores below capture by any instrumented modality. This report reached the federal record through the FBI.
Federal agency personnel (FBI investigators or equivalent) recording the report into the federal investigative system. Investigative credentials, but typically operating in a reactive rather than mission-active posture.
Single-witness or single-instrument capture. This is the corroboration tier for the overwhelming majority of the PURSUE archive on the released metadata - the rubric records the honest limit of the underlying record rather than inferring multi-witness corroboration that the released summaries do not establish. A small number of files with an independent second witness or instrument score on the multi-witness/multi-instrument tier above this one.
No kinematic measurements - speed, acceleration, vector - are published in the released file with sufficient precision to score on the kinematic axis. The rubric does not infer kinematic anomaly from narrative observer estimates. Every file in the archive carries this value, which is itself an observation about the disclosure: kinematic-grade telemetry was not part of what was released.
A conventional candidate explanation has been considered but is not dispositive. Every file in the archive scores this way - reflecting that the underlying release metadata systematically caveats strong determinations in either direction. The released summaries warn against reading them as conclusive analytical judgments, and the rubric respects that.
Released as open after formal review by the originating agency. The file passed through a review process and was published in that posture - a stronger disposition signal than 'unresolved with no review,' because review has occurred and the open status is the agency's published conclusion.
Bottom line on the score: the Anomalousness Index of 58/100 reflects evidentiary weight that this specific file's encounter remains structurally unexplained by the rubric's six axes - it is not a claim that the underlying event involved anything non-conventional, and it is not comparable across rubrics that use different weights. For the full per-axis weights and the rubric JSON, see /methodology.
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FBI-UAP-PR002, “Red Orb Rotation,” Northeastern United States, 2022
FBI-UAP-PR003, “Orbs Over the Pond,” 2024
FBI-UAP-PR004, “Northeastern Orb Sighting,” 2025
FBI-UAP-PR005, Digital Recreation, Narrative Statement 3-1, Western United States Event, 2…
FBI-UAP-PR006, Digital Recreation, Narrative Statement 3-2, Western United States Event, 2…
Verification
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