65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_010
- Date
- Date unknown
- Record
- Pentagon file
- Assessment
- Not assessed
- Evidence strength
What was reported
Press-clipping and correspondence section centered on contactee George Adamski (a long magazine retrospective on his life and claimed spacecraft trips, published after his 1965 death) and a large cluster of March 1966 Michigan newspaper clippings ('swamp gas' wave: radar-tracked object near a Michigan Air Force base, multiple town sightings including Lewiston and Dexter). Also includes a 1966 FBI Los Angeles memo checking whether a flying-saucer club magazine article (a supposed short-wave 'message' from a spacecraft crew) expounded Communist Party positions; the Bureau found no derogatory information and took no further action.
What officials concluded
No conclusion stated
The file gives no official explanation.
- Agency
- FBI
- Released in
- 123456
Evidence profile
- Yes: Visual
- No: Infrared
- Yes: Radar
- No: Video
- No: Photo
- No: Film
- No: Audio
- No: Night vision
- No: Other sensor
- No: Civilian
- Yes: Military aircrew
- No: Military ground
- No: Airline crew
- Yes: Sensor operator
- No: Law enforcement
- No: Scientist
- No: Astronaut
- No: Intelligence official
- No: Other
- Yes: Light only
- No: Orb or sphere
- No: Disc
- No: Triangle
- No: Cylinder
- No: Cube
- No: Other shape
- No: Physiological
- No: Physical trace
- No: Electromagnetic
- No: Sound
- No: Silent
Why this rating The one instrumented case (brief 1966 Michigan radar contact) is reported only second-hand through press clippings with no FBI investigation of the radar data itself; Adamski's claims are a widely discredited contactee narrative; the rest is administrative screening of a fringe publication for Communist content.
As described in the file
- Witnesses
- Multiple named citizens across Michigan press clippings (e.g., Patricia Landry, Lewiston); a U.S. Air Force base radar operator briefly tracked one 1966 object
- Sensors
- Visual, radar
- Shape
- Oval, blue-gray (Lewiston clipping)
- Lights and colour
- Bright blue and gray
- Motion
- Hovered, then departed at high speed to the east
- Duration
- A few seconds hovering
Pentagon files
65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_010
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What the file claims
- Unverified
A U.S. Air Force base in Michigan briefly tracked an unidentified object on radar during the March 1966 wave.
- Unverified
An article in 'Flying Saucers International' claimed to be a message from 'Master Kalen-Li Retan' of the planet Korendor, received by short-wave radio.