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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,:.l°~ARD FORM NO. &I •' ,Office Mem • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO MR. LADD DATE: July 12, 19Jf.7Tolaon Mr. E • .l. ""''ram=-- :: g½:~·-n--=--=-=FROM F. P. GR Mr. Ladd Mr. N1cho:""l,.....e_-_-_-_-_ :: ~:~;;;:..-::_-_-_- _-SUBJECT: '-1-tYlNG DISC :> Mr. Carson Mr. F.gan --- ::: ~~---- Mr. llelldou=-- Reference is made to Mr. Howe's memorandum to you : :~~,=-- dated July 11, in the above-captioned matter. ~·.\}~:: =··--At 11:55 P.M., July ll, I took a phone call from ,~ Sergeant Lonis of the Laurel, Maryland, Police Department. Serge~ Lonis said that he had examined the 11 flying disc.11 He said that it had been made from a Gulf Oil sign and the top of a garbage can and had been painted with aluminum paint. It had been recently painted because the paint was still wet. Attached to it were a dry cell battery, a flashlight bulb, sor.ie v.ii.res and a buzzer. He asked if the Bureau was sending anyone out to look at it. I told him that we vrere not, that we had referred the matter to the Army, and suggested that he call them. I subsequently telephoned Captain Calvert, the Duty Officer at G-2, and passed on to him the infonn.ation f'urnished by Sergeant Lonis. FPG:jc 6
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.