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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To: Director or Special Investigations (I. O.)
Department of tbs Air Force
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From: John F.dgar Hoover, Director, Federal Bureau or Investigation
ll'LIDlO DISCS
A reliable and contidential source bas recent';cy'
a.dvisod thia Bureau that during tho first part of April,
1949, t-. C. A. Atkins, 4312 Los Feliz, Jbl~ Z7,
California, had informed him that three employess or the
Dopirtmont of Bccrention in farkn in the city of Los Angeles,
Callfomia, had noticed objoots in the sky which appeared to
be !lying discs.
The above 1.ilfonmtion is bei.Jl8 .f'urnished to you for
whatever aotion you desire am no investigation is being con
ducted relative thereto by- this Bureau.
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\jVA ~ e~e bW t~t- 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.