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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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STANOAM> POftM NO. &l '
Office Memorandum '~ UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO D. M. DATE: August 18, 194?
FROM : E . G.
:5{ SUBJECT:
Reference is made to your telephonic conversation with the
Director on Wednesday of last week, at which time the Director advised
that Los Angeles papers carried under a \,ashington date line an article
indicating the Soviet esaonage agents in the Unite~ States are under
instruction to solve the flying discs. Such instruct~ons were believed
to be based on the assumpt-ton tnat tne flying discs were a secret weapon
of the Anny or Navy. 'Ihe article attributed the source of its information
to a Federal investigative agency.
Pursuant to your instructions, liaison representatives have contacted
the Headquarters of 1!:i.litary Intell igence, the Headquarters of the Air Forces
Intelligence, Office of Naval Intelligence and CIG. All agencies denied any
knowledge of the flying discs, as well as any knowledge of the basis for this
article.
EGF:OME
RECORDED
EX-29
30CT 2 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.