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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
• • PAGE TWO TR I ANGULAR FORMATI ON . BETWEEN TWENTY AND TWENTY FIVE MI NUTES AFTER THE LAST GROUP WAS OBSERVED, SIMI LAR OBJECTS WERE NOTED COMING BACK OVER THE CI TY VERY RAP IOLY AND PROCEED I NG I N A SOUTHWESTERLY DIRECTI ON . AT THI S TI ME I NFORMANTS STATED THE OBJECTS APPEARED I N GROUPS OF THREE , FIVE AND SEVEN . AT THIS PO I NT MRS. HEDSTROM CALLED DETECTIVE RICHARD FRAZ I ER OF THE TWI N FALLS PD , A NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR, WHO ACCOMPANI ED BY M. E. ROUNDTREE AND RI CHARD SCOTT , ALSO MEMBERS OF THE TWI N FALLS PD, PROCEEDED TO THE HEDSTROM HOME WHERE THEY OBSERVED A GROUP OF TWELVE OBJECTS FLYI NG I N FORMATI ON OVER THE CITY I N A SOUTHWESTERLY DI RECTI ON . I NFORMANTS , ALL REPUTABLE CI TI ZENS THIS COMMUNI TY, UNABLE TO EST I MATE - HEI GHT OF OBJECTS OR SPEED, BUT CLAI MED THEY RESEMBLED ILLl.JNJNATED n YI NG SAUCERS . THESE I ND IVI DUALS WERE OF THE OPINI ON THAT THE OBJECTS OBSERVED WERE NOT THE LANDING LI GHTS OF AI RPLANES NOR SH~I NG STARS . NONE OF THESE OBJECTS WERE SEEN TO COME TO EARTH NEAR TWI N FALLS AND NONE APPEARED TO BE FLYI NG I N AN ARC . NONE OF THESE OBSERVERS HEARD ANY SOUND AS THE .._ ABOVE OBJECTS PASSED OVER THE CI TY. I NVESTI GATI ON CONTI NUI NG I N LI NE WI TH BUREAU I NSTRUCTI ONS CONTAI NED BUREAU BULLETI N NO . FORTY TWO , PARAGRAPH B, DATED JULY THIRTY LAST . I N EVENT BUREAU IN POSSESS I ON OF ANY I NFORMATI ON CONCERN I NG EXPERI MENTAL ACTIVITI ES ON
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.