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.
I• New Jersey residents said they I "thought" they saw flying disks over Palisades PaM and ~ear:by Bergenfield Sunday night. 1 Skeptical scientists recalled the mysterious "rockets" seen over Swe. den last year. Eighty per cent of the "ghost rockets'' proved to be meteors, and Swedish officials said the others could be discounted as pure imagination. Scientists asserted that the ob jects in order to be seen clearly at 10,000 feet-the level at which most of the saucers have been reported would have to be 20 feet in diameter, I would require a large mass of metal, would be more conspicuous at night and would be seen by a far greater !ber of persons. r. J. S. Nassau, director of the Mn" & Swu,y •"'"j'' al th Case Institute ot Techn gy at Cleveland, said he was incl ed toI"think the reports urc fanci s." Capt. Tom Brown, army air force spokesman at Washington, said the art was trying to run the reports to arth. ' e1re not dismissing the possl bil y that there's something to it," . he aid, "and we're not dismissingIIthe possibility that it's all a hoax."
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.