65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Serial_130

Official Conclusion

Unresolved; AFBIR-CO analytical summary states 'something is really flying around' and that the objects have metallic surfaces, circular or elliptical flat-bottomed shapes approximately the size of a C-54 or Constellation, speeds always above 300 knots, and exhibit lateral oscillation

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

• →Kenneth Arnold's sworn first-person account of nine unidentified disc-shaped objects over the Cascade Mountains on June 24, 1947 is included verbatim, with Arnold estimating their speed at approximately 1,700 mph based on timed transit between Mt. Rainier and Mt. Adams.
• →A formal AFBIR-CO analysis document dated July 30, 1947 synthesizes 18 selected flying disc sightings, concluding 'something is really flying around' and noting the lack of 'topside inquiries' as evidence this may be a domestic project known to the President.
• →Harmon Field Newfoundland sighting of July 10, 1947 is supported by multiple sworn witness interrogations and Kodachrome photographs of a bluish-black trail approximately 15 miles long left by a circular, wagon-wheel-shaped translucent object the size of a C-54.
• →A SECRET British Air Ministry cypher message (AIX 6328, August 8, 1947) reports a RAF Mosquito was vectored onto an unidentified aircraft at 22,000 feet over the North Sea on January 16, 1947, making two brief AI (airborne intercept) radar contacts before the unidentified aircraft took controlled evasive action.
• →Pan American Airlines Captain Alpheus O. Powell and navigator Walter I. White independently described a bright orange/gold cylindrical or elliptical object approximately 15-16 feet in length observed at 7,800 feet altitude on August 4, 1947 near Boston, with both witnesses ruling out conventional explanations.

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