UFO Sightings Reporting FBI Files

Description

FBI Files on UFO Sightings

This compilation consists of 1,788 pages.

FBI Documentation from 1947 to 1954

The documents in this collection outline the FBI’s involvement in the investigation of UFO sightings reported between 1947 and 1954. It includes 1,616 pages of files obtained from FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., which detail various reported instances of unidentified or unexplained flying objects. In 1947, numerous reports were submitted to the FBI, prompting interest in interviewing military personnel, particularly those from the Air Force, who had witnessed these phenomena.

The FBI received a significant number of reports and collaborated with the Air Force for a period to investigate these occurrences. The files encompass a diverse range of reported sightings, including multiple eyewitness accounts of a flying object in Philadelphia, a Navy pilot’s observation of a UFO over Myrtle Creek, Oregon, and even a report of a silver-painted cardboard box.

FBI Files on Project Blue Book (File Number 62 – 83894)

This section contains 13 pages of FBI documentation dated from 1977 to 1989, summarizing the establishment and eventual disbandment of Project Blue Book. This project was the United States Air Force’s systematic examination of unidentified flying objects, conducted from March 1952 until its conclusion on December 17, 1969.

FBI Files on the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena

This collection comprises 81 pages of FBI files containing various information regarding a private organization known as the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP). Founded in the 1950s, NICAP aimed to investigate UFO sightings. Between 1957 and 1969, NICAP and its members maintained periodic communication with the FBI, and this collection includes that correspondence.

FBI Files on Silas M. Newton

This collection features 77 pages of FBI files detailing investigations into Silas Newton’s fraudulent activities from 1951 to 1970. Newton (1887-1972) was a well-known oil producer and infamous con artist who claimed to have developed a device capable of detecting minerals and oil. He was referenced as an expert in Frank Scully’s book Behind the Flying Saucers, which alleged to document several UFO crashes in New Mexico. In 1950, Newton claimed that a flying saucer had crashed on property he leased in the Mojave Desert; however, he later retracted this statement in 1952, admitting he had never seen a flying saucer himself and had only repeated hearsay.

FBI Memo on the Roswell, New Mexico UFO Incident

On July 8, 1947, the FBI’s Dallas Field Office transmitted a teletype concerning a flying disc that resembled a high-altitude weather balloon discovered near Roswell, New Mexico.