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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~ STANDARO P0AM NO.~ • • Office Memorandum . UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO DATE: July 11, 194? ~ 11r. Tolson llr . E. A. 'lam FROM K.C.Howe Clegg _!Ir. _ Mr . Olav1n I.Ir. Ladd=-~-_--_ Mr". Nl chol s ' "' , SUBJECT:Ck.ying Diec - _ : : ~~= ~--===llr. carso-n - - !Ir. Egar,=-_-_-_-_ At 10s45 PM on the evening of July n, 1947, Clerk Pierc-y of the :: ~::a Washington Field Office called and stated that at t,he im,ttruction Mr. : : ~ ~ ffiilton_Mr. Quinn Tanm Hennrich he wanted t o pass.-9Jl to the Bureau information he had just re-- ~~•Ne:~~m--== ceived from one Alvin B.,A"arker, 200 6th Street, Laurel, Maryland, to t he ~l:: ~"';• effect that a "flyinf disc" had just landed in Parker's yard "and the ___::-_-_-_ machinery is still buzzing." Piercy s~ted Parker was apparently so excited he had a difficult time even getting his name out, and no further detai l could be obtained from him. At l0t50 PM I passed the above information on to Captain West, duty officer at 0-2 wio indicat~d he htd also received the same data from another source, md 110uld pass our i nformation along to appropriate army qu.-ters. Sid Robe!"ts of the AP called at about 10: 55 PM and asked whether t he Bure~ had received any report on a nnying disc" i n Laurel Maryland. After checking with Mr. Nichols I told him we had, !"eceived s uch a report and had passed it on to army authorities. - 15 KCHsH 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.