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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.
“The Advance”1 page
--•~.M ' ' Memorandur/Z~ . UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Director , FBI DATE: August 27 , 1947 SAC , San Francisco SUBJECT: REPORTS o.PFLYlliG DISCS Attention ; Assistant Dir ector D. M. LADD Reference is mde to my letter of August 8 , 1947 , with which there were transmitted photostatic copies of three letters dated August 4 , 1947, entitl ed , "Investigation of Flying Discs". In order to keep the Bur eau fully informed qoncerning this matter , I am enclosing a letter dated July 28 , 1947 , entitled , "Unidentifiable Ob jects" furnished to me by Lt . Colonel DO ALD L. SPRil1GER, GSC , A C of S A- 2 • Enclosed with this l etter was a memorandum for the officer in charge written by LA./R::NC~ R. KIN, , JR. , Special A~ent CIC AdC dated July 15, 1947 . Lt . Colonel DONALD L. SPRINGER furni::;hed me in person nith a memo randum entitled , "Incident for AF 12O8 - I " dated August 5 , 1947 , and pre re by JA11.2S A. NBLSON , Special Agent CIC 4AF. ------,.,.,..-._, -"w""~ The Bureau will be kept currently advised of any future informal\~ obtained in this matter . D,/KaVL 62 - 2938 Enclosures 20C
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.