65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_SUB_A
- Date
- Date unknown
- Record
- Pentagon file
- Assessment
- Not assessed
- Evidence strength
What was reported
An FD-245.1 cross-reference/search-slip cover sheet followed by a scrapbook of wire-service and newspaper clippings on flying saucers spanning at least 1947-1958, routed through Hoover-era FBI headquarters officials (Mohr, Parsons, Rosen, Tamm, Trotter routing slip). Notable clippings include a July 1947 Associated Press roundup of the original Kenneth Arnold-era wave (a Coast Guardsman's photo that 'didn't' clear up the mystery, a United Airlines crew chasing an object near Boise, a Portland police report of 20 objects, a Philadelphia doctor's sighting); a 1958 wire story reporting Carl Jung's statement that UFOs 'are real' and show 'signs of intelligent guidance by quasi-human pilots'; and a story in which USAF Gen. James Doolittle and NACA's Hugh Dryden publicly debunk a book's claim that Nazi Germany built a working flying-saucer aircraft.
What officials concluded
No conclusion stated
the Air Force publicly stated (per one clipping) that a decade of UFO investigation 'has produced no evidence' the objects exist or exceed known technology
- Agency
- FBI
- Released in
- 123456
Evidence profile
- Yes: Visual
- No: Infrared
- No: Radar
- No: Video
- No: Photo
- No: Film
- No: Audio
- No: Night vision
- No: Other sensor
- Yes: Civilian
- No: Military aircrew
- No: Military ground
- Yes: Airline crew
- No: Sensor operator
- Yes: Law enforcement
- No: Scientist
- No: Astronaut
- No: Intelligence official
- No: Other
- No: Light only
- No: Orb or sphere
- Yes: Disc
- No: Triangle
- No: Cylinder
- No: Cube
- No: Other shape
- No: Physiological
- No: Physical trace
- No: Electromagnetic
- No: Sound
- No: Silent
Why this rating This is an aggregated press scrapbook, not an FBI investigation; individual clippings describe otherwise-uninvestigated visual sightings by named but uncorroborated witnesses, with no sensor data beyond a couple of secondhand radar/police mentions.
As described in the file
- Witnesses
- Many, aggregated from press clippings across a decade: airline crews, police officers, a hospital physician, civilians
- Sensors
- Visual
- Shape
- Varies by clipping: disc, saucer-like, white disc
- Lights and colour
- Silver, white, luminous halo (Dr. Leisy's account)
- Motion
- 'weaving in a playful manner,' 'slewing off to one side,' outdistanced a pursuing airliner
- Duration
- 3-4 seconds to 15 minutes depending on clipping
- Altitude or range
- 10,000 feet (several clippings)
Pentagon files
65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_SUB_A
Open the original on war.gov
What the file claims
- Unverified
Carl Jung stated in a released report that UFOs are real and show signs of intelligent guidance by quasi-human pilots.
- Unverified
Gen. James Doolittle and Hugh Dryden publicly denied claims that Nazi Germany developed a flying-saucer aircraft.