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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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_ n - =o-•-~ • • • • • Office Memorandum • UNITED sTATEs 'GOVERNMENT TO DATE: 9/16/47 11r. Toleon~- w:r. E. A. Tua FROM :I. G. J'lto :: 8½:~1-n:::--=.._-=_-__' _-= =Ill'. Ladd~ C ill'. Nlchole ill'. Ro..n:--_ -_ -_- SUBJECT: l'Lnl'G DISCS :: ~;~-n- :: ~~=.-- -111'. H&rbo llr. Hendo•~ ::;;::;::;:: Special. Agent s. w. ReJ"DOl4e of the Lial1on Section hae 41 ■- llr. PeMtngton ill'. Quinn r ....-- cu■ed with Ltatenant Colonel George Garrett of the tatelllgence ~ ~eN.::m·_=;::= DiTidoa of the Air :rorcea the poaa1"bll1t7 that the fiTiDC diac1 or ~1•• Holme 1auoer1 are in fact a project of the J,,,rJq Air Yore••• It should 1,e note&!. that Ooloael Garrett 8Cl"eM with thta poa1lbUit7. At that time Mr. ReJD,014a polatecl nt '9 Oeloael Garrett the poadble •barrudng poetHon of the tntellf&ence D1T1aion of tbe Air Yore•• tf tt wa• n1,■eqv.eat17 aacer\atned that th11 va1 the truth, eapeo1all7 alaoe the7 ha4 requested the ae11sta.uce of the Bureau in the oapt1oaecl aatter. Oolonel Qarrett a4-rieecl Mr. R•J']lold1 that he wo1ll.d 1D1tlmte a fur'her ,ea.rob, and m ha1 ·nov a4-r11ed that a letter was a4dreeeecl lt1' Major General KcI>onal.4, Director of the l:a'8111Bence D1Tb1on of the Air Jloroea. to the lleeearah and DneloJlllent Seotton of the Air hro••• !here 1■ at~hed hereto a letter addrea1ecl to the Director, da,ed Sep,•b•r 15, 1947. froa !rtca,lter General George P. Sclmlgen, which ■tat•• tba, a coaplete nrn7 ot reeearoh aot1-rttie• cUec101ee that the ~ ilr Jlorcee ba•• no project with cbaraotertaUc1 e1a1l.ar to ,hose which haTe been uaooiatecl with tu flTiDC dleoa. llCQMMl!JBDATIOJ: It ta reoo-•nd.ecl that thil meJ10randua be forwarded to tlle Internal Securit7 Seotio:a for their illfol'll&tion• .Attacblleat r t ~ o, 04> ~~ '<) t~ ~ 73 g-91/ rr/, ~ '' ,,✓ .,110 5 5 SEPJ v~947
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