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.
“Los Angeles Times”4 pages
• ♦ • , COMMl88I ONS:R8 MA~U R I E L U X FORD PRESIOE:NT MRS, ROLLIN BROWN VICE•PRE510ENT MRS. WILLIAM J. WI LSON C. TO N Y P EREI RA ROBERT L. BURNS J. J. HASSETT S ECRETARY - •CITY □ r Las ANGELE S CALIF'ORNIA DEPARTMENT OF RECREAT ION AND PARK 309 CITY HALL LOS ANGELES 12 MICHIGAN 15211 GEO. HJELTE GENERAL MANAOER G ILBERT L. SKUTT SUPERINTENDENT OP ~ARK&F'LETCHER BOWRO N . MAYOR Holly~.ood , Calif . April 10, 1949 . Mr . \1·-.1 tar Vwinchell New York City, N. Y. My Dear Winchell . (J \H th reference to9-lying Disc ' :? ~r other flying objects , thought you ½ould be interested in the follo" i ng . It in a measure substantiates your statements. Friday of last week, three name a They conc to check and person a ? ~J *J}tf---" of our de partment employees were working in Griffith Park(the nations largest pcfk) when one of them, De Jarnett by noticed an object sailing through the sky and took good look to try and distinguish it . from planes that frequently fly over . About the same time two of his cen ,,orking about a half mile av1¥y saw the object . checked with each other and arrived at the same lusi0n. It ~as a Disc and they ran to a telephone report the incident . In the meantime DeJarnett started to the location ~here his men ¼ere ~orking to see if they had seen the object. They had both seen it which proves beyond a question of a doubt that something of the Disc type v.-as in the air and i,,hen the third illan stated he also saw it , I am satisfied you are very much right in your statements and I am inclined to call a liar that says(therREOORn(()°. f is•r~ - <t.Jto/ - One of your fan ~ .J: INDEXE~~C. Al tkins . 43l~ Los .i:' eliz
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.