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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 002

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 194 pages · text from the file's own layer

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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  • p. 28 …SAC, Seattle URGENT ...,_ ----Transmit the f ol lowing mes sage t o : REURTEL !UGUST TWELVE. IT…
  • p. 138 …COMMU~ I\Afl J SECTION AUG .f"ie47~ TELETYPE '(_y /I'~ ~ FBI , SEATTLE 8 - 747 5…
  • p. 140 • PAGE TWO HAM ILTON FIELD, CALIFORNIA, AND CAPTAIN EMIL H.,SMITH OF UNITED AIR LINES , SEATTLE…
  • p. 144 …THE SEATTLE OFFICE AT SEATTLE WILL INTERVIEW EMIL H. SMITH , THREE NAUGHT TWO SEVEN WEST LAURELHURST…
  • p. 146 …Ir Ro~• 1t:L'ETYPE • 1l'aov r Gur•en FBI SEATTLE 8- 12- 47 ( ~05…
  • p. 174 …Boi se on the r oute to Seattl e , Washington. It is the opinion of the…
  • p. 182 SIGAK 000 ALASKA COMU.UMICATIOH SYSTE~, SIGNAL CORPS A CS.AD Seattle 4• Uashincton 19 August…
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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.