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This 1950 FBI file preserves one of the earliest documented instances of a foreign civilian submitting both alleged flying saucer photographs (Durango, Mexico) and theoretical propulsion designs to U.S. authorities, representing early Cold War-era public fascination with and theorizing about flying saucers forwarded to the FBI.
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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
This FBI file (62-HQ-83894, Serial 220) contains a translated letter dated March 19, 1950 from Miguel Angel Garcia Macias of Veracruz, Mexico, addressed to the President of the U.S. Commission of Scientific Investigation in New York. The letter presents the writer's various invention concepts, including a theory of 'stratospheric aerostats' which he equates with flying saucers, accompanied by hand-drawn technical diagrams and a clipped Mexican newspaper article. The package also includes a translated caption describing photographs of a 'flying saucer' reportedly taken over Durango, Mexico by engineering student German Horacio Robles Jr., published in a Mexico City newspaper on March 16, 1950.
Analyst Notes
This document is entirely composed of unsolicited civilian correspondence and a clipped newspaper article; there is no FBI investigative analysis, no sensor data, and no official corroboration of the Durango photographs. The writer, a self-described 'ideographic inventor,' presents speculative propulsion theories without engineering credentials. The newspaper photographs of the 'flying saucer' over Durango are extremely low resolution and show only an indistinct circular smudge in the sky. The letter's claim that the U.S. possessed atomic-powered flying saucers is pure speculation by the correspondent.
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