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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 002

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 194 pages · text from the file's own layer

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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  • p. 7 …stated 11Maybe j,t's a flying saucer11 • He said he nad never seen any thing…
  • p. 46 …I informed him the& I had never heard of any information indicating t~at Soviet espionage…
  • p. 161 …Arnold has never consulted aeronautical charts of the type the Anny uses . Mr . Arnold stated that…
  • p. 162 l Incident 4AF 1208 I flying throu·gh the air I would never say a word…
  • p. 164 …I never a sked nor wanted any notoriety for just accidently being in the r ight…
  • p. 166 …f rom now on I wil l never be without one but , to continue further with…
  • p. 167 …John Doe on the street corner or Pete Andrews on the ranch has never heard about…
  • p. 173 …pressine the search, that I probably v1ould never see the disc - like objects referred to by…
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