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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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• •This mate~ial 1as considered con!idential , and still is . I have been asked by Colonel Gee not to speak an,, further than mat~rial which has been published in the press . And I have chosen simply not to speak at all , except to a source which I consider might 1urther my own work . I I you ask or tne above persons , to ascertain whether or not I have made serious , materially valuable contributions, which ma~ indicate much scien~i!ically... .. . and which, i f action can be continued soon enough , may a li~~le later save our nation much • . . . please make inquiries quietly , and as promptlv as convenient . I must ask you not to speculate , even to vourselr ... out si....plv to act . lJo not mention in any manner, until release bv the har Dep ' t , even tue receipt or this letter , except to the above persons , or proper governmen~ o:t:ticials tnere . Or , to one whom ,,ou know Hill make a donaliion . :t'erhaps your savest bet would -be simpl:v to telephone the 1.r3I there , auo. let them telephone 11rancis J inle:v nere :tor verirication . I promise you an exclusive , behind the scenes stor~ when, and if , tne ,1ar lJep ' t releases the material nationally . Meantime , your action now may save :vou..r ov1n lite , and that 01 others who ma,, • nave wor..dered what a " disc " is . Rest assured I have all the proper scientific and rovernmenta contacts needed... ... al~ I need is the where¼ithall . I h~ve the proper backt;roi...nd to d.isci...ss tne subject , secure the further field
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.