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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.
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Office Memorandum • uNJ. . , /
To ~ - Director, FBI - Attention, .Assistant
Director D. K. LADD
DATE: A ' t 8, 1947 ••
FROM SAC, San Francisco
SUBJEC frLTING DISCS
Reference is made to my letter to the Bureau dated July 28, 1947
entitled as above forwarding a. copy of a report f'urnished to me by Lieutenant
Colonel DONAU) SPRINGER, A-2, Fourth .Air Force, Hamilton Field, California, set
ting forth the results of inquiries made by his office concerning the reported
&ightings of flying discs.
-c~ ,, ~As ot further interest to the Bureau in this regard, theii(..~ e,,, v--v:
mitted herewith ghotos~atic copies of three letters dated August 4, 19
entitled "Investigation of FlyiDg Discs," furnished to ma by Major WILLIA){ R.
GRAHAH, Deputy AC of S, A-2, A.rJq Air Forces, Hamilton Field, California, who is
acting in the absence of Lieutenant Colonel SPRINGER, enclosillg copies of reports
of additional reported sightings of flying discs by persons in Oregon and Arizona,
together with the results of their investigations in that regard.
It is noted that these investigations were conducted prior to the
time Bureau instructions were issued that our own Bureau would conduct inquiries
into the reported sightings of flying discs. ~- ~1
Copies of these reports a.re being forwarded to ortl and
Phoenix Offices for the completion of their files in connection with this subject.
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Enclosures - 3
oc Portland (with enclosures - 3)
Phoenix (with enclosures - 3)
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