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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.
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.. ' • DIRECTOR, FBI March 22, 1949 It ,,as br ought out that sinc e Dec ember 5, 1948 t;.hor e he.ve been more t han ten incidents analagous to the 11 gr een fireball" above described and some t,•enty other s Y1i th ruiner devic.tions from the above . It is tlso pointed out the.t the only sitings 1·1hioh he.d occ urred see.med to hav e been confined to the Los ~lrunos , Las Vegas,. ru1d ~·iest Texas triapgle , G-2 also c.dvised thct as of Novomber 1 , 1948, in.t'ornw,tion had bc.en r eceiv ed f r om higher lfilitary authorities tm-.t tho Air Forc e hnd advised that such sitings occur periodical~ and that anot her per iod of siti ngs was then imminent . Further, on Fcbru~.ry 14, 1949, higher 1Iilitary authorities ndvised that it was believed that ult.iJ11ately it would be found that the phenomena in question have a natural explanation .. It is further noted thot c?.bout 7: 30 p .,m. , 1!.'..rch 6, 19h9, what was at first thought to be a flar e was seen approximately onc- h<llf mile north of Killeen Base in the area of the Vital Instnllc.tion c.t Camp Hood , Toms, and a second flcro ;ms noticed £!.t 1 : 45 a . m. , J!arch 7, 1949, D..)pr oxinu:.tcly throe miles f rom Ki llGcn Bo.sc . It hc.s since bocn concluded thc.t t hG flc.res seen near Killeen r.re prob.::.bly simile.r t o the phenomena p r aviously noted in the Los AL."lllos, Sc.ndia Base Area although these ~re the first sitings of such phenomena near Cemp Hood. There apperu-s to be reason to believe th.:i.t the ~hove- mentioned phenomena may be connectGd 11ith secret expt;;rimcmts being conducted by some U.s. Government ...gency as it is believed thc.t the Unitod Stc.tos is fD.rther c.dvanccd in gui ded missile. developmGnt thnn any foreign poner. Although the pr im.c.".cy responsibility for investig~ting such matters is now ,a.th the U. S . A. F . Air Iratcricl Canrnund, G-2 , 4th Army i s.still inter ested in being advised of any further sitings of such phenomena Hhich might be observod . - 2 -
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.