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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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UNITE:C..ATES GOVERNMENT ~fficeMr~:~:rt:~~ DATE: August 28, 1947 FROM T. F. Bauehman ~ - .olsof4 ::.r. :.. • . ;1 ~ ~:> SUBJECT: Letter and material received from Mrs. J . ~ xon ~still, South carolina !.:r . g: :?: :=--- Route 1, Box JO l.l". He 1.!r. Pe :?". Qu_ ~alt:l . . i:r. ::e 1ass ·- The attached let ,er dated August 14, 1947 f rom Mrs . Mixon to gether with the material which she reports to be part of a f lying saucer was recei ved in t 'e Laborator y on Augu~t 19 , 1947. The material which l'!as subnitted ..,;ith ~rs. Mixon I s l etter has be.:n identified as powdered soap stones . Ina smucb as the Investigative and Security Divisions might possibly be interested in this matter, I request that ou adv:ise me as to the :inal disposition of the submitted material as well as the type of reply which should be nade to Mrs . Mixon 1 s letter. fX..83
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 194 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.