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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 002

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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.

• 'Ultter to Bureau August 13, 1947
Miss JOYCE Mc FARIAND, 476 Simons Avenue, upon interview
by Special Agent WILLIAMS , stated th.at the event in question occurred
at about 7 : 30 on tne evening of Sunday, August 3. She said thai::. she
was in the house when CASELIA or '.IRUEX ca.Lled to her . She went out
immediately, and they pointed out the object in question. She saw
it just before it disappeared over tne horizon, but she declared that
it was in view from that time for appro:x:i.mately one minute . She said
it was round and silver- blue in color and appeared to be revolving.
She said that she did not recall making any comment that. it nught have
been a bird and herself had no idea of wnat it coUJ.d be . In view of
tne distance from which she noticed it, she said tnat it could not
have been more than six inches in diameter but would have been mucn
larger iI. she had been near to it. Miss :Mc FAH.IAND said that sne had
never seen anything like it berore.
She said that across tne street the BOOTHS, mother and
daughter, were the only people sitting on tne porcn and she, herself,
did not notice anyone pointing toward tne ooject in question. The
only other person around, to her knowledge, was GLORIA '.IRUEX, sister
of WILLI.AM '.IRUEX, wno remained in tne house and did not see the ooject
at all.
Mrs . WINFIELD S. BOOTH, 459 Simons Avenue, stated that she
was on tne porch on tne evening in question with her mother but did
not notice any unusual object in the sky nor had any man been present
tnere to point out the object in question.
The follovdng information was received from 'IRUEX through
interview by Special Agent T. H01'lARD WALDRON:
Private WILLIAM .A. '.IRUEX, RA 12282003, Company G, 2nd Bat
talion, 47tn Infantry Regiment, 9th Division, Fort Dix, New Jersey,
adVised he was born ~pr1112, 1930 at Jersey Cit.y, New Jersey and
completed eight and one nalf' years of school. He enlisted in tne
United States Army on May 29, 194?. His mother is Mrs . CEA.CE FI~LDS
of 88 Wales Avenue, River Ectge, Bergen County, New Jersey. 'IRU~X
stated thai::. on Sunday, August 3, 1947, at 8: 00 p.m., he was standing
outside tne home or his girlfriend, Miss JOYCE llc FAH.IAND, 4·18 Simons
Avenue, Hac1censack, New Jersey, accompanied by CHARLES CASELIA of 287
Euclid Avenue, Hackensack, New Jersey, who is his sister1 s fiance .
He said tnat he and CASELIA vrere looking at the radio antenna on a
home near the 47~ Simons Avenue address wnen they noticed an object
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