65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 002

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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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTI GAT".. t,
I TED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JU~ E
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August 14, 1947
TO : COMMUNICATIONS SECTION . SAC, Seattle URGENT
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REURTEL !UGUST TWELVE. IT IS HO•r~.D FRCJI INTERROGATI ON OF 1lU'hllITH,
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SYITH GLADIS THAT DURING '!HE CONFERENCE ON JULY THIRTY ONE THAT~L
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ANUN:HRIS!.i!N Af PARENTLY REPEATED THEIR FALSE $T'.)RY AB0l11' THE l!ATERIAL
BEING FRAGMENTS OF A FLYING DISC AND ONLY ON SATURDAY NIGHT AUGUST
SECOHD DID DAHL AWIT THAT THE STORY WAS A HOAX. IF SOCH IS THE CASE
IT WOULD APPFAR EITHER S\!ITH ~ \
:OLD ll.ADE THE ANONIKOUS PHONE CALLS
SINCE THEY TlOULD HAVE BEEN UNDER THE IMPRESSION AT THAT TDlE THAT THE
i!ATERIAL FURNISHED TO CAPTAIN DAVIDSON AND LIEUTENANT BROWN WAS ACTUALLY
PARTS OF A FLilNO DISC. IT WOULD ALSO APFEAR 'L'H.AT DAHL AND CHRISMAN
DID nar ID!IT THE HOAX TO THE ARMY I!rfELUGENCE OFFICERS BECAUSE IF T i◄EY
HlD DONE SO THE OFFICERS PROBABLY WOULD NOT HAVE TAKEN THE ALLEGED FRA<PlENrS
WITH TKru ON THEIR FATAL FLICHT. THI S IJATTER SHOULD Bi CLEARED UP UFON
liEHlTERVIE.W WITH DAHL AND CHRISllAN. WHEN TlllS POINT CLlRIFIED NO FURTHER
[NVFSTIGATION NECESSARY.
HOOVER
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