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.
“Burbank”1 page
• • -~~~::;~---- - - STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO MR.LADD~ July 10, 12~zl11on ~ llr, E. A, tam 11r, Clegg -- FROM Roy E. Wood V : : o~vln llr , N a llr, Ro n llr. Tr /v'; SUBJECT: q .YJNG SAUCERS ( DISCS) y : : ~anon.___ INFORMA TI ON CONCERUNG Irr. Ournca.___~J • l::: l:n0~·-n-- llr. Pennington llr, Quinn Tami-- Tele . Roo•--===-~, At 5:45 AM this date, SAC Hood telephonically contacted the : ;/·~•H~j~==== Bureau and advised at approximately 11:30 PM, July 9, 194?, the office._.';:.~~•~•-u in Los Angeles had received infonnation from the Resident Agent at Bur,- California, that a "flying disc" had landed in or near Burbank and ha been seen to burst into .thme when it landed. Further, that it had been the cause of a fire in some woods, t his fire eithe!' in Burbank or possibly in the cit.-. limits of Los Angeles, which Mr. Hood could not be certain. The fire chief at Burbank had called the resident agent at Burbank and told him he w:>uld hold the disc for him. Coincident with the information received from Burbank, the Los Angeles Office received c~lls from the newspapers requesting information. The newspape:-e stating they had called the Army Air Force Intelligence who had stated "we are not interested". According to Mr. Hood, this comment had aroused the newspapers and they stated they intendt,d to publish this quotation and belabor same in their firs'tissues. Mr. Hood stated that he had refrained f r om making any statement to the press other than to admi.t possession of '4n object and that it was being turned over to military authorities in the morning (this AM), it being Mr. Hood's opinion that he did not want any quotes in the press and certainly not one to the effect that we were not interested. As described to him, Mr. Hood stated that the object was an aluminum disc about 2 1 in diameter weighing about ten pounds, painted with al uminum paint and having some sort of a radio tube in the center of the disc. This object was in possession of the resident agent at Burbank and would be turned over to military authoritig~ (G- 2) in Los Angeles this morning. '1 ~ RECORDED &?.J. - J / -I -~vMr. Hood's purpose in ca~li ng was to pl ace tne Bureau on notice regarding the above described object and any further information would be transmitted to the Bureau at once. Act ion: None indicated. HE'!f:da ~ DATE:
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.