Documents / Official release
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.
“Hansen”1 page
IBS D 1'"'0Y,....D IJOV 18 1964 l\,-y,\~ 1,1) ...- lfr. lmllON was quoted Qtf hM:ng oallea t h-6 Meh!. and was advised that the Bureau was not intere8ted, whenupon he notii"ied the Eastern Airlines and the Civil Aeronautic Authority- of the objects he had seen. Both agencies are reported to have accepted the information stating they would investigate. The clipping further stated that Mr. WENYON had received no answer to date from either agency. This clipping was submitted to me by the resident agents 1 o£!1ce at Wilmington together with the advice that no agent in Wilmington had been contacted b7 Ur. WENYON. I directed Kr. WENYON be interviewed to determine the ful1 .facts. :rtr. '!JIENYON was interrlewed and it was determined that his correct name is HORACE P...,.JIENYON. 1tr. WENYON advised that he had been an airplane pilot approximate'.cy thirty- years. He stated that in SeptElllber of 1946, 71hile ~Ilg at an a1 ·.,itude of 1,000 feet, two or three miles south of Rehoboth Beach, .Dela~ .1.'e, he noticed a projectile approximately fifteen inches in diameter which crossed his course at right angles and was moving in a west-to-east direction. According to lfr. WENYON, several jeta 0£ name were spurting from the object and it was traveling at a very high rate of speed, 11000 to 1,200 miles per hour. He stated that in October of 1946, he observed a similar projectile while ~ing over Rehoboth Beach at 1,400 £eat~ 1bis was also traveling from west to east. -----~--- Vr. 'WENYON stated that there is little question in his mind but that llbat he saw was some sort of rocket being test,ed. He stated that he 111.shed to call the matter to the attention of the appropriate authority inaSDQ.ch &-~ he thought that the series of airplane crashes that have occurred rsr might in part be explained by what he had observed. He stated tr reported the information to th~ Givil Aeronautics Authority a telephonically interviewe4 byr~porter from the Wi1Jningt0' ~~~ ( ~ ••.,;,--~ 4~ ~ 'f;t-vP 1 ~ 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.