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.

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SAC, Alban., September 25.1 1947
lllreotor, FBI
FU.'IJfJ DISCS
A. Coartney Pt.mer, Informant
Attached h.-eto are copies or an incoDd.ng commmication from A.
Courtney Parker, Superintendmt ot Schoal.a, Bouth Jlojalton, Verm:,nt, and
copies ot aclc:nowledgmcrt or same.
It ie requested that m Agmt of -raar Oi't.lce call on 11r. Pa.Iicer
to obtain any ad:11.tional information in his possession cancerriing fiying
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