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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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REASON FOR INVESTIGATION:
Investigati on initiated at the request of Headquarter s Air Defense Coillllland
reference lett er Headquarters Air Defense Command, dated 7 Jul y 47 , File D333 . 5 ID ,
subject : Investigation of Flying Discs .
SYNOPSIS :
Flying\~sc s first reported in this area 24 June 1947 near Mt . Rainier , Wash. ,
by Kenneth :M . \!'"r nold (Incl 1, Exhibit A)
Unidentified object reported 9 July 1947 at appr oximately 1277 near Boise, Idaho ,
by David N. Johnson, Aviation Editor, Idaho Dai l y Statesman. (Incl 2, Exhibit B)
Unidentified objects reported by Capt . E. J\Smith, United Ai r Lines Pilot,
4 July 1947 • ei ght minutes out of Boise , Idaho . (Incl 3 MOIC, Incl 7 News Clippings
dated 5 July 1947)
Record check of law en\o;oement agencies, public utilities, and local residences
revealed no recor d of Richard~Rankin in Palm Springs. (Incl 4)
Unidentified objects repori_ed 8 Jul y 1947 at 1245 , t r avel ing nor theast over
Hamil ton Field by s/sgt Edward Ry' Baker, (Inc l 5• Exhibit I)
Unidentified objects reported over Grand Canyon, Arizona , 0910 MST by Lt . "• G.
McGinty, USN (Incl 6) and in vicinity of Lake Mead by Lt . E. Bl Armstr ong , Hq Tenth
\ ~ir Poree , Brooks Field, Texas. (In cl 6). 'I\
Extent of publicity in local area indicated by press cl ippings . (Incl 7)
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