65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 002

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 ~ TES GOVERN MENT
DATE : Au.gust 20., 1947To '): Director, FBI
F~: SAC, Spr:ingfield
suJ;;; /FL'YillG DISC
Reference is made to Bureau Bulletin Mo. 42., Series 1947., dated
July 30, 1947 re the above .
For the Bureau' s :information a .Mrs . ~ANDERSON of Saybrook,
Illinois reported to this office the finding of a flying disc
in her front yard at 6 :00 A. M. on July 26, 1947.
It appears from investigation conducted by an Agent of this
of fice that the stability of JUNE ANIEBSON is questionable. H<Yr·r
ever the alleged f~g disc was obtained and it is apparently
the concoction of some of the juveniles in the area. It is an
old wooden pl.atter, which has assembled on it a silver plate, a
spark plug, a timer., and sone ol d bt-ass tub:ing. Photographs
were taken of the sane and there are six views enclosed herewith.
No doubt this was someone's idea of a prank.
The disc is present'.cy- being ret ained by the Springfield Office and
will be :retained pending receipt of Bureau advice relative to its
destruction. The thought :in retaining it was that perhaps the
Bureau might desire to have it transmitted to Washington for any
novel value it might hav~.
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