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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Lions To Makek's, Hohan 's ,;;:;c1 viee Station,
Hamilton's .Jr11 rlr1· StorP, cle
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rxplanatory ~pf1t'r•hPs on th;, gn
i11!! ol the• an1111al award.
p•irpos,• of rr miles nortl:
ea,t of Pal0 :::tine. c:1lled ~heriff
Stan t'ord a ci11'\r ,..bieh bc,g-1111 mov
ing toward P11le,-tine.
8~, !l p. m. hundreds of Pales-
tin!' spectators rrported seeing as
11nn11J· as i.ln c>e- halls in ll1P '-kr
nt once, moYing in a cird '· Sh.-r-
ift Slanford disC'ounled irny sng-
gts
without a.ny rfl'c>C'I on t he ohje(•ts.
Mrs. Va lentine said n eighbor-
!Ind began praying as the balls
of fire gamboled overhead.
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F'.1Hinc:s reportrd ,,he saw II fi,,y
red hall str('aking overhead la;t
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J frs. Marian Heed, fam1 wife,
ro1111d what sh" bclieYed was p.nt
ol II fl) ing d a•
1·01mf! tlw NlgPs. Both sides Wl're
shiny, hut one sirlP w·as m.nkcd
with hlnck. d ctrnight dowll from
tltr i;k,v.
She lifted it with a stick, 1ntt
it in a tin rnn. and !lrove, fi,·e
mill's to nunte1·, 20 milt•;; , omh-
wrst of Shermnn. Score,, crowd1·,; j •1ati'.m in a. ditlH'r ''.·ith H'port;
ln,m1111u·,· with nil who wish to r·n111rn~ trom all s1·fr~t disc 11•11,-, \·i,;
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n•1'.\ ,1h·prr. It apptal·od •o 1',,
small<'r in s1w tlun1 an orl.in"l:'
,tl'0 rtng wh•·el of a C'.ll. hlr~.
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'' flon I ing' ' acr,,;;, t he he·1Y"lls.
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dis,· wa, gon<". T h plane a nd th'.l
so1111d rli-.appru1'Pd
-'In,. Haak i~ ,·onvincNl th:'!
llyin;.• !Hmc·er ,, ·1s reflecl~•d f ..oll\
the airplane. This theory al,o h:,s
beeu n,h ancecl h,v othei·s.
Tlw flying· ,Ji,;c· my~tcry h11s the 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.