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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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• PAGE TWO HAM ILTON FIELD, CALIFORNIA, AND CAPTAIN EMIL H.,SMITH OF UNITED AIR LINES , SEATTLE, WASHINGTpN TO ATTEND THE MEETING . DAHL AND CHRISMAN CLAIM THEY TOLD THE I NTE LLIGENCE OFFICERS, CAPTAIN DAV IDSON AND LIEUTEN ANT BROWN , AS WELL AS KENNETH ARNOLD AND EMI~SMITH EXACTLY HOW THEY GOT THE ROCK FORMATIONS AND THAT THEY HAD NO CONNECTION WITH ANY FLYING DISK. DAHL AND CHRISMAN STATE THEY FURNISHED SOME OF THE ROCK FORMATION TO THE INTELLIGENT OFICERS AS SAMPLES. CAPTAIN DAVIDSON AND LIEUTEANT BROUN LEFT TACOMA, WASHI NGTON I N AB TWENTY FIVE TO RETURN TO HAMILTON FIELD, CALIFORNI A ABOUT TWO THIRTY A. M. AUGUST ONE , LAST, AND WERE KILLED WHEN THEIR PLANE CRASHED AT KELSO , WASHINGTON , AFTER THE LEFT ENGINE BURNED OUT AN EXHAUST STACK WHICH IN TURN CAUGHT THE LEFT WI NG ON FIRE AND IT BROKE OFF . THE CREW CHIEF AND EACH OFFICER PARACHUTED TO SAFETY. ERNif(vOTEL, ASSOC I ATED PRESS WI REMAN , TACOMA, ADVISED THAT TWO OR THREE DAYS AFTER THE FLYING DISK STORIES STARTED , HE CONTACTED DAHL TO CHECK 0 A STORY THE SEATTLE POST I NTELLIGENC~R HAD GOTEM'"F\M THE FIRE CHIEF AT HARBOR , WASHINGTON, TO THE EFFECT THAT DAHL HAD SOME FLYING DISK FRAGMENTS . AT THIS TIME DAHL ADMITTED TO VOGEL THE ENTIRE STORE WAS FALSE . DAHL AND CHRISMAN STATE ARNOLD WAS PAID BY RAY PALMER OF THE FANTASY ~~AGAZ I NE AND POSS I BLY THE BOISE STATEMAN- \.I I p NEWSPA.ER, '\ TO COME TO TACOMA, WASHINGTON AND OBTAIN A STORY FROM ]HEM REGARDING THE FLYING DISK FRAGMENTS . THEY FURTHER STATE THAT ~M I~ H. SMITH HAD A
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