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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Authority: NND 90986 July 1947 I~ 7 MEMORA1IDU:M FOR THE OFFICER It~ CHAR61; 1 . On 1 July 1947 , Lt William G. cGinty , USN, 195803 , P- 80 Student , Williams Field, Chandler , Arizona , was interviC\,ed by this Agant , and stated in substance ; That on 30 June 1947 , at about 0910 , MST , he was. flying at 25 , 000 feet over Grand Canyon, Ai:!izona , in a P - 80 type aircraft . He stated that he was heading south towards Wi l liams Field , Ariz ., when he saw two round objects going at incon ceivabl e speeds , straight down . He fur.ther stated that his reactions were to turn away from the objects . He further stated that one of the unidentifiable objects followed the other seconds apart . He further stated that due to the speed of the objects , he could only see that they were circular , and that they were possible light gray in co-lor . He further stated that it was his opinion that the objects were approx imately eight feet in diameter . In conclusion , he stated that the objects would have probably hit the ground approximately twenty - five miles south of the South Rim of Grand Canyon, Arizona . • AGElfr ' S NOTES : Lt McGinty gav e his' permanent address as . 1~ . A . M. T . c ., Point Hugu, Port Hueneme , Calif . 2 . On 1 Ju l y 1947 , Captain Malcolm rmstrong , 0 - 734168 , Instructor , Single Engine , Williams Field , Chandler , Arizona , was _ _ ...,.__,...~.."t~erviewed by tll1.:l,. Agent and stated in substance : That his brother lat l,t E. B,.....t.rmstrbng , stationed at Hq , 10th AAF, Brooks AAF, Texas Nd- r~late~!m ~hat he saw a formation of unexplainable objects 1n the v1c1n1ty\aua~e Mead , Nev . Captain Armstrong , further stated that hia bi--ot~ii -'ated the objects were heading south, and were at ~_..,..,,~ap-p:;.-oxtnra.te l y" 10,~00 feet altitude . AGENT ' S "NOTES : C.t.pta 1n Armstrong could not give too much infor mat i on on the object& that his brother had seen . Lt . E . B. Armstrong can be contacted at Hq, l~~h AAF , Brooks Field , Texas for further information . \ • ~ Fl e-rc~;!r-., Lynn c. Aldri ch , Spec ial l..gent , CIC1.· AAF' , F)>TRO F 3r~ ) THIS IS A TR COPY Isl John K. O~r , I :'J•'G JOHN K. ORR , Jor , ) A. C. -~.,
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.