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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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• I Other pA!lsengrrs with him also saw It, he said. He gave the name 'Saucers' Fly Here; of J. W. R'r!den of D•dlt. 1'1!- 11plte~ So Ing. the 11&ucer was going at great speed, and waa out of sight In a few seconds, he said. Rowden I.a stoppln& at tbeGrafton Oise Joke Pl:tr.a Hotel. Dli-lC'S HAO TULS Erwin Rottmrn, 132S ~- 19th St., said he saw three of them with tall- flying nol'thwe•t t~ ~outhea~t. as he ~tood at N. 18th a nd W. Vliet Sts. They turned from golrl to another color and thtn to ,liver, he said. Frank Phifer, stopping at the Maryland Hotel, said he ,aw three ballii of rlre t:hoot 1 rol!~ Lakt' Michigan 11.t 8:20 last arlt a mile I rom 1bor1, "gol g at terrlfl m Janesvllle at a "t f'rrlflc i.11o-.•d.'' They viewed It ror 20 minute!!. It was yellow-golden, and seemed to turn al times to a silvery color. they stated. An oval flight pattern was followed. Then, they said, t.Alls appeared on the disc and shortly aCterwards It dlsappenred. John Bo~ch, 4.377 S. Adams St.. Milwaukee, a machinist, Insisted he saw two flashing saucer- 11haped objects pass over Billy tchell Field shortly artl'r mid- ght yesterday. They were ~se ough so he could cieflnltely ~ ate ey were not shoot,lng stars, o-: a rplanes, he said, Bosch's h me ls near the airport. J- --.-----\.,- osu RECORDED /! / 11 rl ,. 1 "/ ~ 6 T re were wires and two tube!I \ airfield just arter he had alighted ~ auache,1 to It. The tubu were an from the RlaD Inch In diameter and three Inches long. I
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.