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65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Serial_403

Type

Document, 3 pages

Agency

FBI

Date

N/A

Place

N/A

Released

Release 1, May 8, 2026

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The government's 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.

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$3.50

They Knew Too Much About
Flying Saucers
by GRAY BARKER

One by one, the leading figures among flying
saucer researchers, who have challenged the govern­
ment deniaJ that saucers come from outer space, have
been silenced.
Outwardly, nothing seems co have happened co
these men. They are srilJ alive, still living where they
used ro. Bur they no longer publish saucer research
material and they will not talk about saucers or why
they no longer will speak of them.
Three men in dark suits have visited these saucer
researchers. Nobody knows what they said, but it was
enough to reduce their bearers to silence.
Perhaps the silenced men know who the three
dark-dad visitors are, but they won't c.alk. about chis
either. And nobody else seems co know who these
men are. They might be government agencs, they
might even be men from outer space, or they might
have muscled into a situation fraught with many
possibilities.
This is pan of the crue story rold by an otherwise
prosaic and successful Oarksburg, West Virginia,
business man, Gray Barker, whose busy film booking
and buying agency in Clarksburg News Building
scarcely seems co be the place to give forth this story
stranger than chat of any of the pictures chat Mr.
Barker is booking.
Mr. Barker never was interested in flying saucers
until 1952 when one of the most astonishing ones
allegedly landed near his home in West Virginia and
he investigated the story and found the shaken and
fearful eye wicnesses convincing enough to go on
with further investigations.
Then, after severaJ years of close contaa with the
leading men in the .field, he found them suddenly
silenced, one by one.
Who they are, what they were doing when they
were silenced, Mr. Barker's astonishing theories of
what they had discovered chat impelled ochers co
silence them, is cold in his book.
H. G. Rhawn, publisher and owner of the daily
Clarksburg News, the author's home town paper, has
authorized University Books to publish a letter from
him which, while carefully disclaiming any credence
in flying saucers, concludes that when so sober and
successful a business man as Mr. Barker finds the
.field imponanr enough, flying saucers deserve serious
investigation.
The,y Knew Too Much About Flying Sa11cers is a
( continued on back flap)
JACKET BY GROPPER ASSOCIATES, INC.

GRAY BARKER

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behind-the-scenes chronicle of civilian saucer research.
It is an immensely readable book. We suggesc you do
not pick it up if you have work to do, for you wiJJ
be unable to put it down until you reach the amazing
climax.
Mr. Barker cells the Story in such a straightforward
and documentary manner that the reader's first mo­
ment of incredulity will give way to conviction as be
is acquainted, page-by-page, with the terrifying in­
side faces.
A six-footer, handsome, and with a warm, in­
fectious laugh, Mr. Barker retains in his voice just a
trace of the accent of the West Vitginia farming
country where be grew up, somewhat belying the rich
and varied career he has crammed into his thirty
years. He has been head of an English deparanent in
a Maryland school system, an audio-visual education
consultant for a large school supplier, theatre man­
ager and morion picrure projection technician. Begun
as a hobby, saucer research has taken more and more
of his time as be has realized the Stark reality behind
the mystery.
Finding time for bis literary career between details
of operating his business, he publishes The Saucerian,
a flying saucer periodical, and contributes co educa­
tional journals and morion picture technical magazines.
UNIVERSITY BOOKS, INC
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New York 16, N. Y.

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