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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.
“United Press”10 pages
--- STANDARD F'ORM NO. 6C • •Office Memoran~um • '·uNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO ;m . E . A . TAJa: V DA.TB: August 15, 1947 llr. Tolson FROM lfR • D . J.f . LADD 111'. E.A. ~ :: g~:~n - llr . Ladd=--~-_-_-_ llr. NtchoisSUBJECT: wr ; Rosen - llr . Tracy- Mr. carso-n -- llr. Egan=-_ -_ -_-_ Mr . Ournea llr . Harbo -- The Director advised on Aunust 14, 1947, that llr . IIOhr_-r.,-,,.-=---_ the Los Angeles papers ~ere carrying headlines indicating : : ~rr:~,!:-Tele. Room - llr. Nease - that Soviet espionage afents had be~ ~ instructed to Mtss Ho~ lltss()andy - determine ·i;he Jacts relative to the-j'lyin g disc§_ . The article carried a ifashington date line and indicated tnat ded espionage agents rad be~n ordered to solve the question o/ the /lying discs, the Russians being OJ ·the opinion that this might be some nez1J form OJ Cefense prefected by -the American Military . The ar"ticle J urth.er recalled that during ·1,ne recern i ar pieces oj' tin J oil had been dropped in ·the air /or tre purpose OJ off setting the value o.f radar being used b~ the enemy Jorces an, that these aluminum discs might be a new develo,rnent along ·this line . :i.'he Director ir,quired as to IJ!hettter the Bureau had any such information . I informed him the& I had never heard of any information indicating t~at Soviet espionage agents had been ins-i;ructed to obtai,n such in/orma·iion . A check witr the officiaJ.s at G- 2 , OllI and at the) oJ ~J 'I Air Corps lntell igence u)as made and it ·as J'ound -chat they t~t.f \ had no information relative to such a sto r y . Y- In accordance with 1,he Director ' s inst r uctions , I ~ advised !'r . lvichols char; in the event any inc.tuiries A!T"e made concerning such~ sr;ory , 1,hat the story should be flatly denied in so J'ar as the FBI i as concerned . ,,,_ DliL : i'A ,&i!.:, M_;-!i_!,f.RECORDED .:f::, D I 3 2 AUG 19 1947
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 194 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.