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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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• • tr. S. Planes Hunting DisCS;- .Russ T~lls of ~tom Saucers'Ir $ }?BJ Pr obes Story of Soviet Ship Officer \LOS ANGELES, July 6-(Spe clal)-Federal agents today In vestigated a Jetter to the Exami• ner describing Russian supersonic atom-powered planes resembling the "flying saucers." A top flight atomic scientist to whom the Examiner referred the letter said It was " not all non•I i.en, e," and suggested the matter be turned over to the FBI. The letter writer !laid he gotI the Information from an officer aboard a Russian tanker recently Los Angeles harbor. LLED EVEN WOR:\IS ,;he Ru~slan, he said, also de· scribed experiments with con trolled radioactive clouds In the Arctic, where birds, animals and t\·en worms were kllled. The plane11, as described by the Rus~lan to the w riter, are only 18 Inches thick, With a kidney !haped outline and no propellors. The pilot lle11 on hl11 stomach ftnd Is 11.rtt!lclally cooled agal! t the beat developed by air ! c tlon. "The outer 11urface I'! hight ollshed,'' the Russian sal Both upper and lower surfa ces re convex, like a gia n t lens, he lilting force ls an entirely diffe rent principle found about 10 years ago among unpublls hed papers of a Russian chemist. "Ener gy Is required only for t'llmblng, but no energy Is need ed f or support when the air plane goes along the earth's gra,•ltational contour lines." The writer of t he si ange let• er said he met the R ssla n of• ICl'r in Wilmington a n because .e wan ted to hear abo Russia, wiled him to dinner. ~te ftawilan first !lsked where he could sen 18 polG'oear=t,elts which he received " for very dan gerou 11 work." He s aid he had been assigned to go over the route of the radio active cloud nea r Lake Baka! (or Baykal) a nd pick up dead animals. ALL LIFE DESTROYED "They loaded a few 11ma ll s hips wit h a ll kinds of anima ls a nd directed t hf' cloud over the m," the writer said. "During t his experime nt, a viole nt s torm blew the cloud f ar nor t h Into the tundra, but before It dissipated It destroyed all life on Its way. "The cloud may be cont rolled f rom la nd, from a pla ne or f rom a robot-piloted 'leader.' '! I unders ta nd It, the control based on electro-magnetic ave~ and the cloud has t wo m1Jonents : T he carrier and t he killer.'' • l 'ENCLO E._ ,.~ h J ~. ~wl,tECORDd F J.~ 32 J 16 ~, .J 60 OCT l
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.