Newark, New Jersey

FBI headquarters file 62-HQ-83894 compiles sighting reports, media clippings, and investigative memos covering incidents from 1947 through 1968. Reported incidents include American Airlines pilot Capt. Peter Killian's account of three shining saucer-like objects trailing his DC6 for 45 minutes in February 1958, the Coast Guard cutter Sebago tracking an object on radar for 27 minutes in the Gulf of Mexico at an estimated 1,000 miles per hour, and grain buyer R. O. Schmidt's claim of encountering a cigar-shaped craft near Kearney, Nebraska, in November 1957.