65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 004

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.

-' ,... •OFFICE OF TI-IE LEGAL ATTACHE
EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
MEXICO CITY
Date: April 5, 1949
To : Director, FBI
From : John H. Speakes , Legal Attache
Subject : O FLYING DISCS
Reference is made to SAC Letter 1~38 , Series 194-9,
dated I.Iarch 25 , 1949, advisinr, that a copy of a memorand1.un
from the Department of the Air Force , dated February 15,
1949, and entitled " Unconventional Aircraft ," as furnished
to the Bureau , was being for,,1arded to this office in order
that all agents assigned to the !Iexico City Office might be
informed of the type of infornation desired by the Air Force
in this matter .
This is to advise that the above- mentioned enclosure
was not received by this office and it is respectfully requested
that a copy of this memorandum be forwarded to Uexico City.
JUS:ml .;.