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This FBI file section (62-HQ-83894, Section 2) collects 1947 Bureau memoranda, teletypes and enclosures on reported flying discs. It includes a Newark interview report on a disc seen at Hackensack, New Jersey on August 3, a Detroit report on fused sand from Midland, Michigan, and War Department requests to investigate Richard F. Shaver of Lily Lake, Illinois after sightings over southern Wisconsin. It also covers Army Air Forces investigation reports and a Delaware pilot's claimed rocket-like sightings near Rehoboth Beach.
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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..,: • .> , .. CHELSEA N O RWICH ROYALTON .. STAT.E Oi V ERMO N,_, ' DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ORANGE. W I NDS O R· D IST R ICT A. COURTNEY PARKER, Superin1endcn1 SOUTH ROYALTON September 17 , 1947 Fe•eral Bureau of Invest i gat i on Washin gton , D. C. Dear Sirs : At 3 : 40 P . M. to - aay I observe• a so - call e• flying saucer. Tnis occur re• wnile I was nalf way up Rix Leages north of Lebanon, N. H. As I was intently watching tne honey bees circling in a paten of sky after leaving my bee box my attention was call ea to a floating object that appearea to be as large as a tennis ball an• as wnite as cotton batting . This object approache• rapialy an• noiselessly from the East an• was followe• closely by another object that appeare• in size an• shape like a saucer which maintaine• a constant angle of inclination to tne bal l an• followe• it at a constant aistance . Tne two objects maae an angle with my eye of approximately five aegrees . Tney were in my vision for more than a minute wnen I l ost them in tne glare of the sun . If' I natl seen this in tne night sky with my six incn telescope I woul• nave tnougnt tnat tne planets Venus an• Saturn naa su••enly gotten together an• were traveling . tne eartn .&J.-ff3o7f--j/_5 l
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 194 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.