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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.
STAN.OARD FORM NO. 64
•Offii ,Memoranuum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
16 July 47TO FBI DA.TE:
FROM WDGS, US BRANCH
• SUBJECT: RICHARD F. SHAVER
1. Attached hereto:
a. Copy of unsigned t~legram received by HQ. AAF 9 July 1947,in which
it is indicated that Richard F h ~~ Lilly Lake, Illinois may have in
formation concerning the origin of tlie ,flying saucers".
b. Copy of a report on flying saucers which were observed by four
witnesses while in flight in two airplanes over southern Wisconsin.
c. Map with indications es to pro:xillli.ty of the locations where the
flying saucers were reported to have been seen in relation to Lily Lahl,Ill .
that the time
2. In view of the fact/the observation of the flying saucers was llll!lde
corresponds closely with the date of the unsigned telegram, and considering
the proximity of Lily Lake to the points where the objects were observed,
it is requested that Mr ShaveRbe investig~t3d to determine whether or not
he has information pertaining to the origin of Flying Saucers.
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/I 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.