Disclosure-language scan
NHI / biologics / contactee classes
Physics-anomaly classes
Named historical incidents
Each tile is a known UFO event of record. Click to expand verbatim quote. The corpus's center of gravity is Lonnie Zamora / Socorro NM (1964) — 95 hits, more than any other named event.
Incident frequency
Named figures · contactees, investigators, ufologists
J. Edgar Hoover dominates the file (he signed virtually every outgoing reply). The contactee era — Adamski, Steckling, Stranges, Fry, Menger — is densely documented. The presence of these names is correspondence-level reference, not government endorsement.
Person frequency
Programs · agencies · publications
Program frequency
Recovered testimony · the 30 most consequential quotes
Verbatim sentences from the OCR'd FBI vault, surfaced by the disclosure-language and incident scanners. Each carries the source section so it can be cross-checked. Inevitable OCR noise present (1947-1968 typewritten paper) — review the underlying page if any quote drives a real conclusion.
Synthesis · what the FBI vault actually contains
Hoover-era public-correspondence file
The 62-HQ-83894 file is overwhelmingly public-correspondence and clipping-tracking, not investigative case work. J. Edgar Hoover appears 200+ times — almost entirely as the signature on standard non-committal replies ("the FBI is an investigative agency and does not draw conclusions"). The file's purpose was to track public interest in flying saucers, not to investigate them.
The contactee era is densely present
Adamski, Steckling, Stranges, Fry, Menger, Bender — every major 1950s-60s contactee figure has a footprint here. The Bureau filed letters from contactees, clipping references to their conventions, and tracked the publications (AFSCA / Saucer News / Flying Saucers International). Their claims are in the file; nothing in the file endorses them.
Substantive incident hotspots
Two events stand out by raw count. Lonnie Zamora's Socorro NM landing (24 April 1964) gets 95 mentions — the single most-discussed incident in the file. Oak Ridge sightings (1949–1950, the nuclear-weapons lab) gets 54 mentions — these were taken seriously enough to involve AEC, AFOSI, and White Sands. Maury Island (33), Kenneth Arnold (24), and Mantell (13) round out the top-five named events.
The Air-Materiel-Command / ATIC pipeline
Air Materiel Command (104 hits) and ATIC / Wright-Patterson (93 hits) appear together — the standard 1947-1953 reporting chain. Project Blue Book (44) and Project Grudge (1) confirm the file's awareness of the full lineage. NICAP (21) and APRO (2) bracket the civilian-investigative side.
What's NOT here
Despite the contactee-era language, this corpus contains:
- No "non-human intelligence" formulation in modern Grusch sense (0 hits)
- No "non-human biologics" (0 hits)
- No reverse-engineering language (0 hits)
- One claim of recovered magnesium-alloy debris (Section 10) — single instance
- Two anti-gravity references — both inside contactee-letter content, not gov't analysis
- Four "humanoid / occupant observed" references — citizen reports, not gov't conclusions
Honest read
The FBI vault is materially richer in disclosure-era vocabulary than the modern (2020s) DoW mission-report subset — but the richness is in what people claimed, filed as record, not in what the Bureau concluded. The substantive references that could survive scrutiny — Socorro, Oak Ridge, the Trent McMinnville photos, the Heflin photos, the Maury Island debris — are exactly the cases UFO historians have been working with for fifty years. This release adds OCR depth, not new evidence.