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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.
“United Press”10 pages
\I) FORM NO. &I I ' ' "'- ' Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVER NMENT TO Director, FBI 0 S DATE: Septenber 4, 1947 '<._: / Am.MAILFROM SAC, San Francisco SPF.cIAL DELIVERYC' SUBJECT: REPCRTS OF FLYING DISCS Fhclosed is a copy of a letter dated August 28, 1947, from Lt. Col. OONALD L. SPRmGER of A-2, Hamilton Field, Calif., with an attachment referring to the sighting of a fiying object by Captain JA~CK and his co-pilot, VmGa :r,At'l, near Bethel, Alaska. Photostatic copies of this letter and attachment are being forwarded to tll3 Anchorage Field Office. In accordance with Bureau Bulletin #42, dated July 30, 1947, Anchorage is requested to interview Captain JACK PECK and his co-pilot, vmcE DALY, preferably separately, in order to cbtain all details of' their reported sighting of a flying object on August 4, 1947. The San Francisco Field Office should be furnished t~ copies of the results of these interviews for distribution to the Sixth Army IntE!lligence. DWK:MR 6.2-2938 &lcls. cc Anchorage (:Ehcls.) AMSD RECORDED & (;, ~ -:__%_ 3-2_2) :IF' B lIINDEXED '34 SEP ~ ~ 194 A n s uJ
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 194 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.