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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 FOUR BEEN PUSHING THE PUBLICITY ON THE FLYING DISK STORIES. VOGEL STATES THAT ARNOLD \•JAS EI,ER THE FIRST OR ONE OF THE FIRST TO CLAIM HE HAD SEEN FLYING DISKS . DAHL AND CHRISMAN STATE THAT ARNOLD ADMITTED RE CEIVING MONEY FROM RAY PALMER to COME TO TACOMA TO CHECK T'//f. DISK STORY . UNLESS ADVISED TO THE CONTRARY BY THE BUREAU , THE BUTTE OFFICE AT BOISE , IDAHO, WILL OBTAIN ALL INFORMATION REGARDING THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE BOISE STATEMAN- S PAPER AND KENNNETH ARNOLD . WILL INTERVIElJ KENNETH ARNOLD , ROUTE ONE, t>'OUNTAIN VIE\~ DRIVE, BOISE FOR WHAT INFOR~lTIGJ HE HAS AS TO THE ABOVE FACTS AND WHAT INFORATION HE FURNISHED RAY PALMER AND THE BOISE STATEMAN REGARDING THE TACOrA MEETING AND THE SABOTAGE OF THE B TUENTYFIVE . THE CHICAGO OFFICE AT CHICAGO WILL I NTERVIEW RAY PAL~ER, EDITOR OF FRANTASY MAGAZINE, REGARDING HIS CONNECTIONS WITH DAHL AND CHRISMAN AND ARNOLD AND WHAT INFORMATION EACH FURN,ISHED TO HIM . WILL ALSO ATTEMPT TO ASCERTAIN WHAT INFORrATION CAPTAIN EMIL H. SMITH FURNISHED THE CHICAGO TIMES . THE SEATTLE OFFICE AT SEATTLE WILL INTERVIEW EMIL H. SMITH , THREE NAUGHT TWO SEVEN WEST LAURELHURST DRIVE ALONG THESE SAME LINES . WILL ALSO ASCERTAIN WHAT INFORt1ATION THE FIRr CHIEF AT CHRISMAN . WILCOX !ACK IN ORD PLS CG OK FBI CG MDG BT OK FBI BT VGW
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.