65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Serial_403
Official 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.
✦ AI summary
FBI Central Records Center file, Case 62-HQ-83894, Serial 403, a 3-page item consisting of the FBI's copy of the dust-jacket promotional text for Gray Barker's 1956 book "They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers" (University Books, Inc., $3.50). The jacket copy describes Barker's central claim: that leading civilian flying-saucer researchers who challenged government denials of extraterrestrial saucers were mysteriously silenced after being visited by "three men in dark suits" of unknown origin (government agents, extraterrestrials, or otherwise) -- an early published account that helped originate the "Men in Black" legend within UFO lore. It gives Barker's biography as a Clarksburg, West Virginia businessman who began saucer research in 1952 after an alleged landing near his home, later publishing the periodical The Saucerian, and it includes a promotional letter from newspaper publisher H. G. Rhawn endorsing the book's seriousness. No FBI analytical commentary is present in the extracted text; the document appears to be a retained press/promotional clipping rather than an investigative report.
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▸Transcript(3 of 3 pages legible)
[PAGE 1] 62-[HQ]-83894 Serial 403 EBF [barcode/routing markings] SW-H0-83894-EBF 403 X FBI - CENTRAL RECORDS CENTER DO NOT DESTROY HQ - HEADQUARTERS Class/Case# Sub Vol. Serial # IPA# 0062 83894 403 ONLY 9/18/226771 [routing/barcode markings] [PAGE 2] $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 government 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. 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-clad visitors are, but they won't talk about this either. And nobody else seems to know who these men are. They might be government agents, they might even be men from outer space, or they might have muscled into a situation fraught with many possibilities. This is part of the true story told by an otherwise prosaic and successful Clarksburg, West Virginia, business man, Gray Barker, whose busy film booking and buying agency in Clarksburg News Building scarcely seems to be the place to give forth this story stranger than that of any of the pictures that 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 witnesses convincing enough to go on with further investigations. Then, after several years of close contact 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 that impelled others to silence them, is told 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 important enough, flying saucers deserve serious investigation. They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers is a (continued on back flap) JACKET BY GROPPER ASSOCIATES, INC. [PAGE 3] GRAY BARKER (continued from front flap) behind-the-scenes chronicle of civilian saucer research. It is an immensely readable book. We suggest you do not pick it up if you have work to do, for you will be unable to put it down until you reach the amazing climax. Mr. Barker tells the story in such a straightforward and documentary manner that the reader's first moment of incredulity will give way to conviction as he is acquainted, page-by-page, with the terrifying inside facts. A six-footer, handsome, and with a warm, infectious laugh, Mr. Barker retains in his voice just a trace of the accent of the West Virginia farming country where he grew up, somewhat belying the rich and varied career he has crammed into his thirty years. He has been head of an English department in a Maryland school system, an audio-visual education consultant for a large school supplier, theatre manager and motion picture projection technician. Begun as a hobby, saucer research has taken more and more of his time as he has realized the stark reality behind the mystery. Finding time for his literary career between details of operating his business, he publishes The Saucerian, a flying saucer periodical, and contributes to educational journals and motion picture technical magazines. UNIVERSITY BOOKS, INC 404 Fourth Avenue New York 16, N. Y.
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Source: U.S. Department of War / AARO — public domain · war.gov/ufo