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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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.. 1fONfID._!3N7IAL t Incident 4AF 1208 I 16 July 1947 MEUOR»:mm FOR THE OFFICER IN CRARGEt 1. On 12 July 1947 , Captain Smith, of the United Airlines , was interviewed at the Boise Municipal Airport , Boise, Idaho. Captain Smith was passing through Boise on a schedule flight at the time and had a 20 minute stop- over. Captain Smith reiterated the statements originall y ma.de by him to the press as to what he had seen in the late evening of July 4th, when 8 minutes out of Boi se on the r oute to Seattl e , Washington. It is the opinion of the interviewer th.at due to the posit i on Captain Smith occupies , th.at he , Captain Smith, would have to be very strong l y convinced that he actually saw f l ying disks before he would open himself for the r id icule attached to a report of this type . ' FRANK M. BR<:fJN,.S/A, CIC 4-~H AF
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.