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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owned t,y
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vernment struc'
·what Hitler stc
simi;le, and far mon
age. But when Russia
the same.
As to Russian tac
they don't difier grea
When independence is
and maintained in -Gr,ee
ing to Wallace's reasor
But since the Rec
tlus country than the British mocracy, it's very sim1
to suit the purpose. E,
king ever had. This is juSt Moscow's fifth column,
I as unfolerable today as it
was then. . Wallace talks of h,
I * r:~ ,,. s1stance and sincere pl1
I -peorle " How c n. W 11La.st Sunday was, for the ' t- • a a
British, a nat10nal 'Day of Russia will take ,
1
,P·~~~r '1') 1 ~ kini wjth Prima without changing in ti
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I Minister Attlee and other 1Anct now can 11e 'Lct.:i'll. -.
govel'nment leade:'s went to when there cannot be
St. Paul's Cathedral to pr~yIless, ~~iceles~, and cut
with the natwn for help m any Inendsh1p reach t
' these ominous times. 1 Wallace is not sc
"' ~ .,. d I polities evidently mea1
Not s.o tong ago Englau
, went tlmough the most
I de.sperate sb·uggle iu her·
' wlrnie history. The peace
j! is not yet establishe.1 ani
e\'cn a greatel' mcnac~
I threatens the people ,of
Eagland and elsein,here to
j whom f.reedom m€a',1S so
j much. In a great da.nge1·
brave pe~~•f,~a to G-0d.
I Here, -too many do notl rnrcn,! in the rcrent co1
I fully realize today's danger.· a mm 1-ton rnodd. The ,
_We suffered comparatively 1rll(•k was lrnilt o'n Oct,
I little and the H.ed threa,t ~,91~. i1_1 ~'htnokt's C
seems to be distant. But 'altrornw p!Hnt.
: that does not minimize it. . Tiu, tl'llek i·, owned aud
'W need to ra~e the menac-9' bv "\fi-. l.(-- Ju, A. :Storey,
I _e . I .1fo11t;n1a; and tlic tntr:v ,,
I with the same seriousness. mitted thn,n"h Pionu 1.
• the British ~eople with their; the Cbcnolc:; dealer in tl
leaders manifested last Sun- whic-h 1 locatcJ in om S.1
1day. For, we cannot c~cape I~ ity 7.c11e.
it. I 'l')!f> 1',innEr's ]11'17.(' of
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It cannot be ~aid anymore i11·il! be i;res;nt('d to ,\fr.
that the stories of the "fly- b:,- Ch tl1a 11 50 191D
I military secret and that the i~till iu orr\atio11, rnan~ d
I Army Air Force at Spokane, 1\\'ere mau_n1artnred. on_ly ,
, ·washino-ton be notified at ,mon•li~ a1 lc•r the wmmn,.:-
helping to divide Ame1
most.
Mont Man Wii
Truck Award
The ohLst • C';<'n;l~•t t1·
qwration in thP t'JJitcd
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l Ou~.:, - 'foxas J; 1\-J.ars ,or some other star.
Nor are they m i s s i I e s
which Red Russia is al-t1tu:u:a:u:e:u:n:nxu:n:u:e:u:a:s:n:u:11:u:8:I~ \,. She'll Never Forget
THIS GIFT
See Us For
QUALITY MERCTE' AJ\TnTSE
EXPF RT WATCH
REPAIRING
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HAlVIILTON
ILike Russians": "Offici'ally
JEWELRY religion is still regarded as
~ a deplorable superstition,Yoakum l!i and .church-goers can never
hope to gain admittance to~~l:t~
Hornee Wimbe:dy, Jc
Lawyer
Offices now in
Yoakum National
Bank Building
Phone 50
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once. :J! 'P,\ *
So the mystmious disks
are not messen?ns from
1ready showering upon us.
They are our own secrets
with which o u r armed
forces are experimeD'ti,11.
What proμels them? How
far can they fly? What is
tlheir purpose? -That is a
mighty sec<ret.
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It is a French paper in
I Paris that claims that Ame-
rica has a far more destruc-1
tive bomb than any ever in-1
• vented before. In on~ blow it
the Communist Pa1:t,y.''
Yet what do you find in
this country'? -:Even cer
tain church leaders ihave
only praise fnr the very
rule which exchtdes a
Christian, but they con~
demn their fellow Chris
tians, instead of the Reds.
, TliP lar•-. 1nrn1b<•1· of
' t111, lu; cn1 cred L1 th<' bearc'0
It1_n.phn,;i:'.e., the qm.Jity an~
I
!ht1i!y of C'lwnoll't ln:d,~
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could destzoy all of Paric;;
or Moscow. This is also con
firmed by Robert l\1. Hut
chins of the University of
Chicago, familiar with what
goes on here. We can thank
only the good P~·oviden(•e
that this immense power is in
I
I
our hands. ,, r ,,,
Writes John Fisher in hisl
book "Why They Behavel
MI■ Just
Men
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'l'he... _ 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.