65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 SERIAL 403

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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 SERIAL 403 is a declassified record from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, dated , classification DECLASSIFIED. It is part of PURSUE Release 01 — the Pentagon's first public unsealing of UAP records under the Presidential Unsealing & Reporting System for UAP Encounters program, published on 2026-05-08 at war.gov/UFO/. UAP.WATCH has indexed the full text locally so the document can be read, searched, and cited without leaving the site.

Linked incidents

• Roswell, New Mexico — 08 JUL 1947 (PURSUE-001)
• Wright Field, Ohio (Air Material Command) — DEC 1947 (PURSUE-023)

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62- HQ-83894
Serial 403
EBF
62-HQ-83894-E403
FBI - CENTRAL RECORDS CENTER

HQ - HEADQUARTERS

Class / Case #: 0062 83894
Sub: <empty>
Vol.: 1
Serial #: 403
ONLY: ONLY

9/18/226771
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DO NOT
ESTROY
DIPA #: 1142292
62-83894-403
Declassification authority derived from FBI Automatic Declassification Guide, issued May 24, 2007.
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**Title:** They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers
**Author:** Gray Barker
**Subtitle:** THE TRUE STORY OF WHAT HAPPENED TO CERTAIN RESEARCHERS AND INVESTIGATORS WHO FOUND OUT WHERE THE SAUCERS COME FROM

**Visual Elements:**
*   Three silhouetted figures in fedoras, two tall and one smaller.
*   Multiple yellow flying saucer shapes.
*   Blue background with white speckling.
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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 hearers 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.
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JACKET BY GROPPER ASSOCIATES, INC.
A black and white studio portrait of a man named Gray Barker. He is wearing a suit, shirt, and tie. The text "Buffington Studios" is present.
GRAY BARKER
Buffington Studios
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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. Began 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 educa-tional journals and motion picture technical magazines.
UNIVERSITY BOOKS, INC.
404 Fourth Avenue
New York 16, N. Y.
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The image depicts three silhouetted figures of varying heights, all wearing hats and trench coats. In front of them are several yellow, saucer-shaped objects, suggesting flying saucers. The text "Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers" is present above the image. The context provided indicates this is from New York, NY.
Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers
BARKER

They Knew Too Much
About Flying Saucers

GRAY BARKER
UNIVERSITY
BOOKS
THE TRUE STORY OF WHAT HAPPENED TO CERTAIN RESEARCHERS AND INVESTIGATORS WHO FOUND OUT WHERE THE SAUCERS COME FROM