FBI-UAP-D013, Washington State ‘UFO’ Investigation, 1952-1960

[PAGE 1] FEDERAL BUREAU [OF INVESTIGATION] -- SEATTLE FILE NO. [partially legible] -- REVIEWED ON [date] -- FOR FOI/PA [request number] [PAGE 2] [Newspaper clipping heading, partially legible] "...Columbia Basin... [Date stamp] NW90291 Docld:34714596 Page 2" -- "July 29, 1952 -- Pasco, Washington" [PAGE 3] [Newspaper clipping, heavily degraded] "...saucers... Pasco... last night... he observed a [disc]-like object... to have flown all around... Monday night... saw flying saucer[s]... driven to the [police] by [a witness in] West[,] Kennewick... he believe[d it was a] [illegible - heavy OCR noise]" [PAGE 5-6, dated approx. 2/10-2/11/1953] "On 2/12/53, [Special] Agent[s] [redacted] obtained the following information: [witness], Port of Embarkation, [stated] that at 1627 hours on 2/10, [or] approximately [time], while passing over the University Bridge in [Seattle], she [saw] a bright object in the sky, high over Sand Point, traveling [in a direction], but a little to the south. She said the sky was [clear/overcast] at the time and it was the extreme brightness of the object which called her attention to it. She could [not identify what it was] [illegible - heavy OCR noise]" [PAGE 20-21] [Archival page-number stamps only: "NW90291 Docld:34714596 Page 20/21" -- content largely illegible OCR noise] [PAGE 22] STANDARD FORM NO. 6, Office Memorandum, UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. DATE: TO SAC, 6/7/54, 7:40 AM. FROM: [Al?] Rau, Night Clerk. SUBJECT: SIGHTING OF UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS OVER PASCO, WASH. 6/6/54, 11:35 PM. P.V. Howell, Chief, Counter Intelligence, 20th [Air Force] OSI, advised as follows: Gail P[?]ock, Pasco, Wash., Phone Pasco 6054, supervisor of a local ground observ[er corps station reported...] [illegible - heavy OCR noise] [PAGE 23-25] [Correspondence, heavily degraded] "...D. Auerbach, Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation... Dear Sir: On 7 June 1954 [a report was] transmitted by Special Agent, Seattle... On 8 June 1954 at [time], [a further report] transmitted to [Seattle] ... [and] 8 June 1954 by Special Agent [redacted]..." [illegible - heavy OCR noise] [PAGES 35-53] [illegible - heavy OCR noise throughout; scans appear to be poor-quality photocopies of carbon/onionskin documents]. Archival stamps confirm continued pagination: "NW90291 Docld:34714596 Page 35," "Page 36," etc., through "Page 51" and "Page 52," with one page bearing a Seattle FBI office received-date stamp: "JUL 17 1959 FBI - SEATTLE."