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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
PORMN0. 14 • Memorandum r •• UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT ' ' TO l,J\ PROM J.IR. D• .I!. !ADD ~ E.G. Fitc~a2- ~ YING DISCS DATB: Septeml::ler 8, 1947 J SUBJECT: Mr. Tolson Mr . E. A. 'ram Mr. Clegg__ Mr . Glavin : : lti~~-01::::.===llr. Rosen -- : : ~;~n Reference is made to my memorarrlum to you in the above captioned :: ~-=•a- matter dated August 22, 1947, which irrlicates that Special Agent Griffee !:r.~Ttigl;on of the Liaison Section had contacted Lieutenant Colorel G. D. Garrett, Jr., ~i.~JggmTanm of the Air Forces Intelligence at which tine Colonel Garrett advised that t!'t./~~~ the A:nn.y Air Forces were coniucting no research or experin:e nts in the ~111•• 03.nd:r vicinity of TWin lia.11s, Idaho, on or about August 19, 1947. Coloool Garret ~ at that tine indicated to Mr. Griffee that he would check '\Yith the Anny area · . in order to ascertain whether or not they were conducting any eXp:3ri.1'00nts ·in t.'lis vicinity at that time . Colonel Garrett has subsequently advised llr. Reynolds that he has been advised by the A:rmy area that no such exp3rin2 nts oore being coniucted in the area of T\ri.n lia.11s, Idaho, on or a bout August 19, 1947, which would in any way throw any ligit on the matter reported in the teletyi;:e. REC0MllENDATI0N It is recomnenied this memorarrlum be of the Internal Security Section. ' SSEP 22194~ 0.-30
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.