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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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•,,,. > ! .. LBFBI BUTTE 8 -20-47 3-22 PM vb!RECTOR URGENT FLYING DISCS . BETWEEN NINE TH I RTY A~I NE FORTY FIVE PM LAST NIGHT, AUGUST NIMETEENTH, MR . AND MRS . H. H. HEDSTROM , THIRD AVENUE NORTH, TWIN FALLS, IDAHO, WHILE SITTING ON THE FRONT PORCH WITH MRS . HENRY /2HULTZ, OBSERVED AN OBJECT RESEMBLING A FLYING SAUCER TRAVELING VERY RAPIDLY FROM THE SOUTHWEST TO THE NORTHEAST SECTION OF THIS CITY . ABOUT TEN MINUTES LATER, ALL OF THESE INDIVIDUALS SAW TEN SIMILAR OBJECTS PROCEEDING RAPIDLY IN THE SAME DIRECTION IN THE FORM OF A TRIANGLE. AS THIS GROUP OF OBJECTS WAS ABOUT TO DISAPPEAR IN THE OVERCAST SKY, THREE OF THE OBJECTS ON THE LEFT FLANK PEELED OFF AND PROCEEDED IN A NORTHERLY DI RECTION . THE REMAINING OBJECTS IN THE TRIANGULAR FORMATION J APPEARED TO CLOSE RANKS AND CONTINUE IN A NORTHEASTERLY DIRECTION . ~EE TO FIVE MI NUTES LATER THESE INDIV~LS\ SAW 1 ANOTHER MIUPHIC GROUP \ ii'THREE OBJECTS PROCEEDING IN ~.'3\!)l'ff ~~&'):- AGAIN I~ THE SHAPE % ~RIANGLE. THREE TO FIVE MINUTES LATER !ToFORMANTS OBSERVED ANOTH~ ~ GROUP CONSISTING Ot• FROM FIVE TO SIX OBJECTS, AGAIN IN TRIANGULR ~\.~FORMATION, PROCEEDING RAPI DLY IN A NORTHEASTERLY DIRECrfJN. A FEW MINUTES LATER A LARGE GROUP OF OBJECTS ESTIMATED AT Bi\kEN THIRTY FIVE AND FIFTY FLEW OVER THE CITY: IN A NORTHEASTERLY DIRECTION, AGAIN IN ~ Jc / 0c~ ~ ' J.._~.v .L 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.