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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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.. observe something that at least Mr·. John Doe on the street corner or Pete Andrews on the ranch has never heard about, is no reason that it does not exist . Even though I openly invited an investigation by the Arrey and the FBI as to the authenticity of my story or a mental or a physica l examination as to my capabilities, I have received no inter est from these two important protective forces of our country; I will go so far as to assume that any report I gave to the United and Associated Press and over the radio on two differ ent occasions which apparently set the nation buzzing, if our Liilitary Intell igence was not aware of what I observed, they would be t he very first people that I could expect as visitors. I have received lots of requests from people who told me to make a lot of wild guesses. I have based what I have written here in this article on positive facts and as far as guessing what it was I observed, it is just as much ·a mystery to me as it is to the rest of the world. My pilot ' s license is 333487. I fly a Callair airplane; it is a three place single engine land ship that is designed and manufactured at Arton , Wyoming as an extremel y high performance, high altitude airplane that was made for mountain work. The national certificate of my plane is 33355. /s/ Kenneth Arnold Box 587 Boise , Idaho They seemed longe r than wide , their thickness vras about l/20th of' their width -;-;:t;. u~/ -C-~7 Mirror Bri ght They did not appear to me to whirl or spin but seemed in fixed position. I have made drawing . /s/ Kenneth Arnold CONFIDENTIJA. L
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.