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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• ~...:W...o FORM NO. 64 • / 1v;;; •,.._ Office Memorandum • UNITED ~-----.3 GOVERNMENT , I TO : DI.B.l!CTOR, Fl3I DATE: August 12, 1947 FROM ~, MILWAUKD SUBJECT: <tYING DISOS SA:OOTAGE B.aference is made to Bllreau Bulletin No. 42. Series 1947, dated July 30, 1947, Section (B), which ad.vises that a.11 reports concerning flying discs should be investigated by field offices. Prior to the receipt of these instructions, two iastances were called to the attention of this office concerning flying discs. One report was received July 7, 1947, the details of which are set forth in Milwaukee letter to the Bureau dated July 8, 1947, entitled, 11l'l;ying Discs or Saucers, Misce'l.laneous, Telephone Call from Mr. J'l.etcher at the lNree.u at 8:30 a.m., 7-7-47." No investigation was conducted concerning this report. The second rtport was receiTed by this office at 1:20 p.m. July 11, 1947, from Lieutenant Colonel HARRY w. SCHAEB"J'.1, who is 1n charge of the CiVil Air Patrol of Wisconsin, an awd.liary of the Army Air Forces. On that occasion Colonel SCHAEFER, calling from Black B.iver Falls, Wisconsin~ telephonicall.y advised this office that an object in the shape of a di , c, nineteen inches in diameter had been found July' 10, 1947, by one SIG' RANSON, city- electrician on the Jackson Oounty f'a.irgrounds, near m.a.ck B.i er Falls, Wisoonsin, about 3:30 p.m. The disc might be made of a substance SlX:h as cardboard covered by a silver airplane dope material. The contraption bas a small wooden tail like a rudder in the 'back and inside of the disc is what appears to be an ROA photo-eleotric cell or tu.be. Also inside the disc is a. little electric motor with a shaft running to the cent er of the disc. At one end of the shaft is a very small propeller. In Colonel SCHAEF!lt's opinion that contraption might possibly have been made by some juvenile. Oolonel SCHAEl'm stated that he desired to return the contraption to Milwaukee and eventually turn it over to the Army Air Jorces, but that the finder, SIG HANSOlf, apparently wanted to get some publicity on bis find. and wanted it returned to him. Thia information was telt!)hOnically- ca.J.led. to the attention of Assistant Director D. M. LADD of the :Bureau on July 11, 1947. Subsequmtly, SAC H. X. JOHNSON telephoned Colonel FRED SIEBERT in charge of Counter Intelligence, l!'ifth Army, Chicago AO of S G-2 __.-- Bead.quarters l'ifth Army, last Hyde Park Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, who / stated he would contact Colonel SOHAEF:m of :Black B.iver Falls, Wisconsin. COPIES DESTROYED 27 v NOV 1 8 1964
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.