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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I • PAGE TWO WERE KILLED . THE WRECKAGE WAS SCREENED BY AAF INTELLIGENCE FROM MCCHORD FIELD . THE TACOMA NEWS TRIBUNE AND THROUGH THEI THE UNITED PRESS PUT OUT A STORY THE PLANE WAS CARRYING PARTS OF A DISC WHICH. HAD STRUCK A BOAT OWNED BY HAROLD DAHL AND FRED CRISMAN , TACOMA, WN . RICHARDS ADVISED THAT TODAYS ISSUE OF THE OREGONIAN CARRI ES A UP STORY STATING THAT DAHL DENIES SAYING THE METAL FRAGMENTS HE FURNISHED WERE FROM A DISC , AND ANALYSIS OF THE FRAGMENTS SHOWS THEM TO BE FROM A TACOMA SLAG MILL . NO AAF INTELLIGENCE PERSONNEL AVA ILABLE PORTLAND . NO RECENT SUBSTANTIVE REPORTS OF FLYING DISCS IN THE PORTLAND AREA . SEATTLE VERIFY AT MCCHORD FIELD AND SAN FRANCISCO VERIFY AT AAF HDQRTS . SF , SUBMITTING TELETYPE SUMMARIES TO THE BUREAU . NO FURTHER INVESTIGATION PORTLAND. BOBBITT END AND ACK WA O157AM OK FBI WA DW SE SOK FBI SE KLS SF OK FBI SF NCW r11' ,/ J l C f flf.11 (UU!U,'· DVIMSC
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.