65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Serial_403

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

• →The FBI Central Records Center filed and preserved the dust jacket/publisher materials for Gray Barker's book 'They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers' as part of case file 62-HQ-83894, Serial 403.
• →The book describes civilian UFO researchers being visited by 'three men in dark suits' who allegedly silenced them regarding their findings about flying saucers.
• →Gray Barker, a Clarksburg, West Virginia businessman and film booking agent, claims his interest in flying saucers began in 1952 when a saucer allegedly landed near his West Virginia home.
• →The book is described as a 'behind-the-scenes chronicle of civilian saucer research' and Barker published a flying saucer periodical called 'The Saucerian.'
• →H. G. Rhawn, publisher of the Clarksburg News, is cited as endorsing serious investigation of flying saucers despite personally disclaiming belief in them.

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