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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
Letter to Bureau August 13, 194'/ ..- about two to three feet in aiameter moving rapidly about two hundred yards off tne ground. TRUEX said he tnought at first it was a child's balloon, but when he noticed tnere was no wind and tne object had no strings to it, ne decided it was sometning else. He stated tne object was moving in a steady, straight patn, going nortn, and he said there was no exhaust or indication of any motive power ror the object. 'lRUEX said they observed tne obje ct for fifteen or twenty seconds. He could not give a description 01· tne object's color or tne materiai. it was composed of but said it looked more like a large, flat child's cup tnan anything else he could think or, as the object was oval on the top and came to a point on tne bottom side . '.IRUEX said tna~ CASELLA. stated 11Maybe j,t's a flying saucer11 • He said he nad never seen any thing move through the air quite like this object, and he had no idea where it came from. 'lRUEX sta~ea tha~ neither ne nor CASEIJA had had anytning to drink, and there was sufficient light for tnem to observe tne object very clear1y. Th.e 11Fly1ng Disc11 was reported try CASELIA to Sergeant JAMES PERONE of tne Hackensack Police Department. Sergeant PERONE advised tne writer tnat his Department had taken no further action nor had they received reports of the object in question from any other source. It may be noted that no other Police Department in ~ne v:i.cmivy has brought to tne attention oi this Division any information regarding t his matter. -3 -
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.