Documents / Official release
This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section, compiled in 1947, collects newspaper clippings, memoranda, teletypes and letters about the summer's flying disc reports. It includes a July 1947 memo on a Grafton, Wisconsin priest's reported disc, which the Milwaukee office learned was a circular saw with wires, possibly a prank. Other items cover a disc found at Black River Falls, reports from Texas and Oregon, a San Diego memorandum on visitors, and Hoover's acknowledgments forwarding information to the War Department.
From the source:Release of 2026-05-08 Incident: N/A, N/A. The FBI's 62-HQ-83894 case file includes investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports concerning Unidentified Flying Objects and flying discs documented between June 1947 and July 1968. The records include high-profile incident accounts, photographic evidence from sites like Oak Ridge, TN, and technical proposals regarding potential propulsion systems. Additional topics include convention programs, researcher accounts, and extensive media coverage from the period. This file is partially posted on FBI vault with more redactions and some pages missing. Included here is the complete case file with several newly declassified pages and only minor redactions.
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r 'STANDA1<0 FORM NO. 64 !,- Office Memor ndum • UNITED ST.,ES GOVERNMENT DIRECTOR., FBI SAC, NEW HAVEN SUBJECT: 'J "FLYillG SAUCERS" EDWIN M....-BAILEY, JR. ~ STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT, INFORMANT ATOMIC ENERGY ACT , For the information of the Bureau this is to advise that on July 7., 1947• EDWIN M. BAILEY., Jr•• 6 Home Court, Stam.f'ord., Connecticut, appeared at the Sta.mrord Resident Agent's office and furnished the following informationa- llr. BAILEY prefaced his remarks by stating that he is a scientist by occupation and is currently employed at the American Cyanamia Research Laboratories on West Ma.in Street in Stam.ford, Connecticut., in the ~ice Division. Mr. BAILEY further indicated that during the war he was employed at MIT, Cambridge., Massachusetts, in the Radiation Laboratory which Labora tory is connected with the Manhattan Project. BAILEY advised that he is thirty years of age and is a graduate of the University of Arizona. Mr. BAILEY stated that the topic of "flying saucers" had caused considerable comment and concern to the present day scientists and indicated that he him- self' had a personal theory concerning the "flying saucers•. Prior to ~ advancing his own theory., BAILEY remarked that immediately a.rter the conclu- sion of World War II., a .f'riend of his., RENAT~CHETTI• allegedly obaened the "flying saucers" from an pbservatory in Milan and Bologna., Italy. He stated that apparently at that time the "flying saucers" had caused a little comment in Italy but that after some little publicity they immediately died out as public interest. Mr. BAILEY stated that it is quite possible that actually the •tlying saucersw could be radio controlled germ bombs or atom bombs which are circling 1:he orbit of the earth and 1m.ich could be controlled by radio and directed to land on any designated target at the specific desire o.f the agency or country operating the bombs• He stated that one of the items of interest l'il.ich he personally has observed is the .fact that the saucers have been observed in Mexico City• New Orleans, Philadelphia., New York• Boston, Halif'ax, Newfoundland, Paris, Milan., Bologna. and Yugoslavia. as well as Albania. By placing a string aroynd tne globe ot th, earth ~ FXM/clb 117-0 COPIES-D!!:~"'P0YED NOV 18 l~b4 60AUG 270
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 185 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.