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.
“Hamilton”2 pages
• UNITED sTAt's GOVERNMENT DATE: August 6, 1947 llr. Tolson )(r . E.A.. ~ llr. Clegg - llr. Glavl-n - llr. Lacld=-,,_-_-_-_ llr. Nlchclii SUBJECT: '4-LYING SAUCERS llr. Rosen,_-_-_-_ llr. TracyS~cial Agent s.w. Reynolds of the Liaison Section contacted Mr. carson--- 11r. 1:gan----_-_ Lieutenant Colo:ool c. P. L.:artin, Army Air Forces Intelligen:::e, inquiring llr. Gurnea llr. P.arbo - about an article 'l'lhich app:3ared in the ~st Cc:ast rewspapers recently llr. llchr=-=-=---_ llr. Penn!ll?,ton stating in substan:::e that an airplane carrying ~covered flying saucers llr. Qulnn '!'am Tele. RC>OJII - llr . Neau-crashed in r oute from Portlarrl, Oregon, to Los Angeles, Galiforni.a. l.'1~ Hows IUso 03.n,fy-== Colo:ool ll:1.rtin advised !Jr. Reynolds that the only infornation that has been received. by Headquarters of the Army Air Forces is that a CIC Agent of the 4th Air Force\ Headqua..rters, Hamilton Field, San Fran:::isco, ms kil:JJ3d in an airplane crash. The Headquarters of the Air Forces have been advised that he was on a top secret mission. Colonel llartin in::licated that he was w::rler the impression that the CIC Agent was eith.er on route to or from an Iinterview with Mr. Arnold m.o is ore of the in::lividuals who first saw ore of the flying saucers. ~ / ~ REOORDRD I - • 7 v Colonel Martin stated that the Air Fo~~ve ~i~ilirormation and m.ll recei ve nore until the report is receive~:t~il' thUtA,,.~ilo ~ ,. ~ Colorel 1...artin suggested that the San Fran:::isco Field OffG contact Colorel..~j Springer, 1-iaadquarters 4th Air Force~, Hamilton Field, San Francisco, who Y l.r"' unioubtedly would be able to furnish the details regarding this matter mrich are at tnis t ime unknown by the Headquarters of the Air Forces. Colonel J.artin pointed out to 1.ir. Raynolds, ho;.ever, that it was his belief that no flying saucers have been recovered but thaj, it ..as merely an attem12t 1;o reinter'vlew an individual vho~viously had re~ted seeing ore of the flying saucers:- r '(,1~,~~ 11 Office TO FROM D. ll . IADD E. G. Fitch ---
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.