65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Serial_403
Agency: FBI

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 2 They Knew Too Much About i Flying Saucers | by GRAY BARKER One by one, the leading figures among flying saucer researchers, who have challenged the govern- ment denial that saucers come from outer space, have been silenced. Outwardly, nothing seems to have happened to } these men. They are still alive, still living where they used to. But they no longer publish saucer research | material and they will not talk about saucers or why : : they no longer will speak of them. ~ 4 i Three men in dark suits have visited these saucer a researchers. Nobody knows what they said, but it was F enough to reduce their hearers to silence : Perhaps the silenced men know who the three be dark-clad visitors are, but they won't talk about this ‘ ; either. And nobody else seems to know who these x men are. They might be government agents, they | : > | =e might even be men from outer space, or they might 4 _ . ie have muscled into a situation fraught with many tad : — ig possibilities. ce = z ; 7 745) a This is part of the true story told by an otherwise | ee a FS og prosaic and successful Clarksburg, West Virginia, | ¥ \ fs 3 Ee business man, Gray Barker, whose busy film booking | ’ = ene and buying agency in Clarksburg News Building ; wi. " . an scarcely seems to be the place to give forth this story | J aT] j stranger than that of any of the pictures that Mr. q | a Barker is booking. x aly} ss er Ores 1 4 Mr. Barker never bee interested in flying saucers | ne ; wee 4 cai until 1952 when one of the most astonishing ones ‘y pb =: EA u =! . : allegedly landed near his home in West Virgina and ( Z =, 4 he investigated the story and found the shaken and | | ZZ. BS fearful eye witnesses convincing enough to go on | ) ; with further investigations. f Es | | Then, after several years of close contact with the hy 2 4 iz leading men in the field, he found them suddenly | es Zé / Y V Ii silenced, one by one. | § nay Yf (| \ ‘ Who they are, what they were doing when they | LMMY i] 8 SY q were silenced, Mr. Barker's astonishing theories of | X ’ what they had discovered that impelled others to | S| silence them, is told in his book. | Li th QUEErS Fs H. G. Rhawn, publisher and owner of the daily | | Clarksburg News, the author's home town paper, has vy authorized University Books to publish a letter from : him which, while carefully disclaiming any credence “4 in flying saucers, concludes that when so sober and | RA B i; successful a business man as Mr. Barker finds the tf field important enough, flying saucers deserve serious 4 investigation. ik They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers is a Fal (continued on back flap) | - £ JACKET BY GROPPER ASSOCIATES, INC. |

\~ bh Too = & — =f UC | ’ Sy p id — e GRAY BARKER ee “ = 1 | (continued from front flap) i Pend behind-the-scenes chronicle of civilian saucer research. It is an immensely readable book. We suggest you do F . not pick it up if you have work to do, for you will . d wy BARKER be unable to put it down until you reach the amazing climax by b : ; : Mr. Barker tells the story in such a straightforward 3 ; => ———_7 and documentary manner that the reader's first mo- j Bb) Sn SZ ; Wk ment of incredulity will give way to conviction as he ; Ze j E is acquainted, page-by-page, with the terrifying in- } ™ / Po ; side facts j 2 ayy = : A six-footer, handsome, and with a warm, in- x oe LA ) ) § fectious laugh, Mr. Barker retains in his voice just a 7 b ; trace of the accent of the West Virginia farming zl // fill ~ country where he grew up, somewhat belying the rich i: and varied career he has crammed into his thirty | ms years. He has been head of an English department in Za ON Fi I "\(C SS a. Maryland school ‘system, an: andio-visual education } } } J ~ / } ) | al S consultant for a large school supplier, theatre man- Al ey MALS ager and motion picture projection technician. Begun gd as a hobby, saucer research has taken more and more of his time as he has realized the stark reality behind the mystery of operating his business, he publishes The Saucerian, flyin een peticdacd end othe deatcs no eta UNIVERSITY tional journals and motion picture technical magazines. BOOKS UNIVERSITY BOOKS, INC 404 Fourth Avenue . New York 16, N. Y.