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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ST""1>ARD FORM NO. 64 • ' Office M emorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERN MENT•TO D. l'.. Ladd ! D ATE:r.O Ill', Tol oon•...-=,--- 111'. E. J., 'ram:rt?~FROM H. B. Fletc}1erJr:.,,, July u , 1947 ::: gi!~'=-n--=-==:: :ti~~:....1-. -- SUBJECT:C)E.'LYING DISC~~ :: ~:~:=-~--=~--==-Ill'. caraon::_ lll' , r.«an kl' . Ourn"""••·=====Ill'. Harbo lll'. Hendo·...- ;;:::==n:;; ::: ~~,=-- SAC Bannist=~~! the Butte Office· called at noon today and ~~:~~-----_- stated that a Mrs. Fr sterbrook, 215 7th Avenue East, Twin Falls, ~ aa oaniy ,,, Idaho, at 2: 45 a . m. Mountain Time today heard a noise in the back of . - - - ( her home. She thought a collision had occur red and invest:i@ted and found in the back yard of the home next door an object described as follows :kl~ A disc JOi11 in diameter, circular in shape, it is dished like a /"..-..- ~ asaucer and actually there is a saucer within a saucer in the manner of "L cymbals . On one surface there is attached a plastic dome described as about 1411 in diamter and affixed by 8 bolts in a rather rough manner. The bolts can best be described as similar to stove bolts. On the other surface is another dome of metal which is gold in color on one ·side and on the inside is silver in col or, which looks like tin. Through the plastic dome can be ob- served three tubes similar to radio tubes and there is some wiring. The disc generally is 1011 thick and at the point where the domes are located about 1411 in thickness. There is an object on it similar to electric coil which has some type of an arm on it and bears the words "Inspected TS" . Some of the vnring has been burned off and it looks as though something might be missing. Mr. Bannister stated that if this were the work of some prankster he went to quite a bit of trouble. He stated the press is aware of this incident. He stated that the -disc had been picked up and vras now at the Pol ice Department, Twin Falls, Idaho. He was instructed to notify the local Army authorities of the existence of this disc. t HBF: FES t.A·ti5
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.