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Crashed flying saucers reportedly held at US radar station — secondhand hearsay

~Jan 1950New Mexico-Arizona border area (reported location) (approx.)

⟳ Deeper read pending. This record is from the FBI 62-HQ-83894 flying-disc file, whose cursive, clippings and faint scans are under-read by automated OCR. It is flagged for a vision-transcription pass and likely undercounts what the source contains — see the documents collection note.

Analysis — our summary

An OSI intelligence report from the 13th OSI District at Offutt AFB described secondhand claims, sourced from a newspaper account in the Wyandotte Echo (Kansas City, Kansas, January 6, 1950), that a man named Coulter claimed to have observed two recovered flying saucers at a radar station near the New Mexico-Arizona border. The alleged craft were described as two-part vehicles with a metallic ring and central cockpit, with crews of three-foot-tall humanoid occupants preserved in a perfect state. OSI District 13 intended to interview the original source (Ruddy Fick) and noted the Kansas City Star was aware of the story but refused to print it as 'too fantastic.'

As reported — verbatim from the document

“"Of the two Flying Saucers one was badly damaged and the other almost perfectly intact. They consisted of 2 parts, a cockpit or cabin about 6 feet in diameter. A ring 18 feet across and 2 feet thick surrounded the cabin."; "All were uniform height of 3 feet: blond, beardless and their teeth were completely free of fillings or cavities."”

Analyst notes — caveats & confidence

Extreme multi-step hearsay: newspaper report of a man (Fick) who heard a man (Coulter) describe alleged access to a secret site. No direct witnesses identified. OSI classified the spot report and downgraded it to Confidential. No corroborating physical evidence described. Included for completeness; factual value is very low.

Provenance

Source document65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_5.pdf

Document typecorrespondence collection

Reporting agencyFBI

Source pages209

Redaction markers in doc6

DeclassifiedFirst public at this release (2026)

Held classified~76 years (≥, to this release)

Extraction confidence Very lowHow cleanly this record could be parsed from the source — driven by legibility & redaction. It is not a measure of how credible or anomalous the sighting is.