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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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I• ?/ J.i/'/7 &,,~ " . COUNTy'\ !IRRITANT" lrom our Mail lox Coming His Way Merrick-Out all day yesterday looking for a house to rent , but no luck. I yot so disgusted I ended up in a tavern and got lit. When I got home and went in the house I SAW FLYING SAUCERS IN AIR! -No Foolin. Garbles Westbury- B,. 11 more Radio Ham's message seems to be from some gentleman occupying an Oly mpian height. As with many of these erudite souls, the sender can not resist including a few "garbles" in his code. Or is our Ham guilty? Here is your message: TffiED OF ~ H U M A N NONSENSE WONT AWAIT ATOMIC WAR DISTURB· JNG SOLAR SYSTEM SO SENT FLYING DISKS AND WILL SET UP WORLD UNDER MARTIANS LATE THIS YEAR. - Simple transposition. Hope all your readers are appropriately warned. -Stephen M. Schuster. (Other ungarblers got "outlaw" ( ATLAW) instead of "await," • isrupting" instead of "disturb• I g." Miss Rita Flood of *t ashington expects the wo ld ENCLOSURE der to be set up un der " • i.ter." Is Radio Ham satisfied Erl:) BECOM.lilf)
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 194 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.