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This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section (62-HQ-83894, Section 4) collects 1947 to 1949 correspondence on flying discs. It includes Portland police officers' accounts of a silvery object over the city on September 11, 1947, an Alaska pilot's July 1947 sighting near Bethel, citizen letters answered by J. Edgar Hoover, and a 1948 Air Defense Command directive on disc investigations. The FBI replied that it was conducting no flying disc investigations. Later items concern William Albert Rhodes's disc photographs and a Los Angeles letter judged a probable prank.
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.
“Socorro, New Mexico”1 page
•Authority: NND 90986 DEPAB'nlENT OF THE ABMY STA.FF J.iESS.A.GE CENTER INCO~INO CLASSIFIED ~LESSAGE CONFI DEllTIAL PAllA.PHRASE NOT REQ,UilillD PRIORITY From: CO Kirtland AY.B New Mexico To: Chief of Staff US.A.F attn Dir of Special Invectigatione Officer of the Inspector General 3 Nr: OSI-l-90 31 January 1949 Reference previous reports. subject: unknown, aerial phenomena, file number 24..8. Sighting of identical object reported at 2255Z 30 Jan 49 by aprx 30 people. Estimate at least 100 total sightings. AEC 1 AFSWP • 4th Army. local conwanders perturbed by implications of phenomena. Sighting reported from El Paao, Alburquerque, Alamogordo. Roswell. Socorro, and other locations. All appear to be same object at different points in trajectory. Un.less instructed to contrary this office will make all out investigation with view to location of impact point if any. Request reply. ~- 4,, "- 'v / ~ ACTION: AF ?fRECORDED • lG , (2 - ! INFO: ID. PO -F o 13 fEB '110. ·1JJ,W t i -1fli(l.i IN 321 (,a Feb 49) DTG: 312l.45Z d#./B RC 5/1 t'k \G COPY ~~ FEB 2819 - I
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 214 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.