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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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WI{HROP HOTEL, TACOMA WHERE ARNOLD HAD HIS ROOM, REFLECT THAT ON JULY
THIRTY FIRST, LAST , ARNOLD CALLED PALMER AT A. N. FIVE TWO NAUGHT NAUGT,
EVANSTON , ILLINOIS , COLLECT, AND ALSO CALLED NAUGHT ONE NAUGHT NINE J AT
BOISE , IDAHO, COLLECT . ON AUGUST ONE, LAST, ARNOLD CALLED PALMER AT
DEARBORN FIVE TWO NAUGHT NAUGHT CHICAGO, COLLECT , AND EMIL SMITH CALLED
BLANJYf(ODDY AT DEARBORN TWO THREE TWO THREE . ON .JULY THIRTY FIRST AND
AUGUST ONE, LAST , A TOTAL OF FIVE ANONYMOUS CALLS WERE RECEIVED BY A
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TACOMA TIMES REPORTER AND THE UNITED PRESS WIRE MAN AT TAC"MA, GIVING IN-
FORMATION REGARDING THE MEETING AT THE WINTHROP HOTEL OVER THE DISK
FRAGMENTS AND STATING THAT THE B TWENTY FIVE HAD BEEN SHOT DOWN OR
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FRAGMENTS IN THEIR PLANE . DAHL AND CHRISMAN STATE THESE CALLS COULD ONCT
HAVE COME FROM THEMSELVES, SMITH OR ARNOD, AND DENY THAT THEY ~ADE THE
CALLS . NO RECORD OF THE CALLS AS HAVING BEEN MADE FROM ARNOLD-S ROOM
IN THE WINTHROP HOTEL CAN BE LOCATED . DAHL AND CHRISrAN ARE EVASIVE AS
TO JUST WHAT INFORMATION THEY DID FURNISH BY PHONE OR LETTER TO RAY
PALMER . ERNIE VOGEL, UNITED PRESS WIRE MAN , TACOMA, WASHINCTON,
STATE IT APPEARS THE BOISE STATEMAN- S PAPER AND KENNETH ARNOLD HAVE
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