RELEASE 01 / NOID-65-hs1-834228961-62-hq-83894-section-6
65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_006
- File ID
- NOID-65-hs1-834228961-62-hq-83894-section-6
- Agency
- FBI
- Release
- Release 01, 8 May 2026
- Event date
- Not given
- Location
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- Type
- Redactions
- None flagged
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Official summary, as published
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.
Named in this file
11 namesPeople, programs and institutions from The Legacy Program research board whose names appear in this file, found by exact spelling against a hand-checked list. A match says only that the file names them, not what part they play. People and programs lists every file that names each one.
- Tier C Lincoln LaPaz person
Named in pages 4, 24, 25, 27, 33.
Director, Institute of Meteoritics, University of New Mexico; principal investigator of the 1948-1951 'green fireballs' over Los Alamos, Sandia and Kirtland; scientific lead associated with Project Twinkle
- Tier B Gen. Charles P. Cabell person
Named in pages 10, 12.
Director of Intelligence, USAF, to 1953; Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, 1953 to 1962
- Tier C Frank Scully person
Named in page 79.
Variety columnist; author, 'Behind the Flying Saucers' (1950)
- Tier B Donald H. Menzel person
Named in pages 256, 261.
Director, Harvard College Observatory; author of three books arguing against the extraterrestrial hypothesis, 1953, 1963 and 1977
- Tier C Kenneth Arnold person
Named in page 259.
Civilian pilot; originator of the 1947 wave
- Tier A Project Blue Book program
Named in page 155.
Public-facing USAF UFO program (1952-1969)
- Tier A Central Intelligence Agency institution
Named in pages 12, 179.
Independent civilian foreign intelligence service; convener of the Robertson Panel
- Tier A United States Air Force institution
Named in page 24.
Military department; original custodian of the UFO record and of the Roswell material
- Tier A Atomic Energy Commission institution
Named in page 26.
Civilian atomic authority, 1946-1974; statutory custodian of fissionable material and atomic weapons
- Tier B Office of Naval Research institution
Named in pages 114, 116.
Created 1 August 1946 in the Office of the Secretary of the Navy; the Navy's research contracting authority
- Tier A Air Technical Intelligence Center institution
Named in page 174.
USAF technical intelligence centre, Wright-Patterson AFB
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