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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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•Office ' Memorandum h. • UNIT ED STATES GOVERN MENT TO :~ireotor, FBI - Attentions Assistant DATE: Director D. M. LADD FRO~ : SAC, San Francisco SUBJECT : LYING DISCS There is transmitted herewith for the information of the Bureau a report received from Lieutenant Col onel DONALD L. SPRINGER, A-2. Hamilton Field, Cal i fornia, contai ning the results of an investigation by his office concerning the reported sighting of flying discs. In addition to containing ~he detail ed descriptions of what was allegedly seen by several persons, the Bureau's attention is particularly called to the first memorandum setting forth the notes of Agent FRANK M. tRONN, CIC, Fourth Air Force, concerning an interview he had with Mr. KENNETH RNOLD, Box 387 , Boise, Idaho, who reported that on July 12, 1947 he had seen ine strange objects flying over the Caacade Mountain Range of Washington State. It will be noted that ere Agent BRO\'IN reports that"Mr. ARNOLD is very outspoken and somewhat bitter in his opinions of the leaders of the Uni ted States Army Air Forces and the FBI for not having made an investigation of this matter sooner." The thought has occurred to me that the Bureau might desire to have an agent of the Butte Office contact Mr. ARNOLD and explain to him our lack jurisdiction in such matters. HMK,emb Enclosure Authority NND 90986 cg
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.