Documents / Official release
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.
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,...-ANDARI> •ORM NO, 64 • •~ i:e Memorandum • UNITED STATES• GOVERNMENT TO DIRECTOR, FBI DATE: March 22, 1949 F ROM SAC, SAN ANTONIO SU:BJ ECT: PTIOTECTION OF VITJ,.L INSTALLATIONS BUREAU FILE 65-58300 c..)I I Re San Antonio letter t o the Director dated January 31, 1949, which outlined discussion had at recent nec!:ly Intelligence Conferences of G-2 , ONI , OSI and FBI in the Fourth :.my Area concerning 11Unidentifi ed Aircraft" or 11 Unidentified Areial Phenomena" • therwise kno\'m as 11 flying di scs11 , 11 Flying saucers" and 11balls of fire". It is repeated that this matter is considered secret by Intelligence Officers of both the Anny and the Air Force. G-2 , 4th Anny, has non advised that the above matter is now termed 11 Unconven tional Aircraft" and investigations concerning such matters have been given the name 11Project Grudge" . G-2, 4th Anny, advised on Febr uary 16, 1949, a conference was held at Los ,'i.].amos, Nen Mexico, to consider the t,o-called 11 Green fire ball phenomena" 11hich began about December 5, 1948. I t was brought out this question has been classified. " secret" and that investigation is now the primary responsibility of the U.S •. Air Force, Air Eateriel Comm.and, T- 2 . Dr. LilTCOLM Lf~ PAZ of the University of New Mexico , discussed one siting which he himself had made which was termed the "Starvation peak incident11 and des cribed the following characteristics which indicated that the phenomenon could not be classified as a normal meteorite fall . l . There was an initial bright light (no period of intensity increase) and constant intensity during the duration of the phenomenon. I 2 . Yellm1 green color about 5200 Angstroms . 3 . Essentially horizontal path. 4. Trajectory trav ersed at constant angular velocity. 5. Duration about tY:o seconds . £,. No accompanying noise. ~E3rz:/RECOUII •ti .., - ! I JEJ:md 2 cc : El Pas• (100- 4562) 1!.-- /Jpr. t/- 17'-1? ln I Q 2 cc: Dallas 11 11 Houston 11 11 Little Rock 11 11 Oklahoma City - l. -
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.