65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Serial_449

Official Conclusion

No further action contemplated; forwarded to Bureau for information only.

Official Description

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.

Key Findings

• →An IRS employee named Jarvis H. Cooper submitted Issue No. 24 of 'Flying Saucers International' to the FBI's Philadelphia Division on 9/19/66, alleging an article on pages 2-3 expounded the Communist Party line.
• →The article in question was purportedly a message from 'Master Kalen-Li Retan, Head of the planet Korendor,' received via shortwave radio by Bob Renaud, and criticized U.S. military-industrial policy and the Vietnam War.
• →The FBI's Los Angeles Division reported no indices information on Bob Renaud and no prior investigation of AFSCA, and recommended no further action.
• →The file includes numerous contemporary newspaper clippings (1965-1966) documenting widespread UFO sightings across the U.S. and internationally, including radar tracking by a U.S. Air Force base and multi-witness ground observations.
• →Project Blue Book is referenced in the newspaper clippings as the Air Force program evaluating UFO reports, with a spokesman noting 673 of 9,700+ reports remained classified as 'unidentified.'

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