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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.
“Gray”2 pages
1947
~- ' fMemorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
-TO D~TOR, FBI DATE: August 27,
-1-~ FROM SAC , 3Al' r' wmc1sco
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SUBJECT: R....,PORTS OF ..,LYTI.G DISCS
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Colonel ..:ii-'11.ING.i.!.i.t, .r·ourth Air Force, ,-ia.milton field , California, /i)~
telephonicilly advised ~peci.=u .ttgent .ICHALL J . Cn..:iSillY of the San Franciucfu..~
Uffice at 10: 40 ...won ,\u0 ust 27, 1947 , that a )crsonal letter !.ad been
received by his organization from IL..;M{Y 1.cL....OD, city editor of the Suattl e
Times , wLich stated in effect that b.;cause Vere ,~<:are so I:Jany stories going
around relative to flying discs and r~latcd r.1atter~ , and that hi3 staff of
reporters had been attemoti~~ to get reliable infon..ation concerni~ such
stories, he was writing to inquir1;; Hhether any governmental agency was eoing.
to make an official state1 cnt relative to the sitl.l.'.ltion pertainint, to the
flyin_; discs ; tr.at !.~. ....cLIDD al~o askec! ,•,hetheJ.' it ·.~ould be percissibl e for
.is reporters to interview AIU~OL0 , uA.tIL, and ShITH relative to this situation.
Colonel SPRI'NG:Z:: stated that the abo ·e-menti0ned letter was answered
personally b3 General t~ on ~u"""-ust 25 , 1947, .::.nd a,~vise~ Mr. !IcLEOD that as'
fa.~ 1.s th.., ..r.rey ,ur Force was concerned, they 1-iad no infon.ation which would
definitely clear up the situation; that as far as intervicvin5 persons, Mr.
llcL!DD coulrl feel free to interview whoosoever '1e desired , in that there was no
censorsh~J at the rosent tie ; that in the interest f economy, ul e rourth
Air Force feadquarters would not run out every lead or report of flJi.n.c, discs ,
but that if \'Tdll- founded and an.;::arently reliable j nfornation were rece.:.ved , t 11at
such information , ould be given attention . ~ u , UU)J'fl-.,
A copy of this letter ;_s being fornarded to the Seattle Field Tlivision
for any action deemed advisable .
62- 2938
D K/jo
2 cc Seattle
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