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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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0 STAN!jlARD FORM "".• 6-0 • 'Ojfiie Memorandum • •UNITED STATES GOVERNMEN.T TO FROM SUBJECT: Director, FBI ~ SAC, San Antonio PROTECTION OF VITAL INSTALLATIOOS (Bureau file 65- 48300) V' DATE : April 41 1949 AIR MAIL SP-~CIAL DELIVERY a l':' 22, 1949 which submitted information related by mil itary authorities concerning unconventional aircraft . ...~ ►~ The Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff, G- 2, 4th Army, has advised ~ ~-, ~ t -hat at 11 : 50 P. M. !larch 31, 1949 a lighted object about the size of a basketball, l,:..; :s-t eddish white in col or, followed by a fire trail, was observed southwest of ~~.~Cl~ill een Base, adjacent to Camp Hood, Texas . The observation was made by 1st :.:::: ,) Lt . FREDERICK W. DAVIS, who was in charge of a platoon, Company C, 12th Armored Sr antry Battalion, which is assigned as a part of an alert force (called force ~ ~ Abel) from Camp Hood, whose function is to protect the installation at Killeen c::,.. ... s0 Vjff~~.7~~:~2.._~~~C.- \~ Lt. DAVIS advised that the object was at an altitude estima.~e~~~~ H t-f w 6, 000 ft . , was traveling paral lel to the ground and passed directly over him at ~ffi~ a rapid rate of speed . It was in view 10 to 15 seconds and suddenly disappeared < ::X:: Q high in the sky without having descended . No sound or odor was detected. The night v,as clear and visibility good. The object passed almost directly over the air strip at Killeen Base. When Lt. DAVIS attempted to advise his headquarters by telephone immediately after the sighting, he heard static or electrical interference on the telephone line which he stated might be possible radio interference• . z 0 w G- 2 has advised that other lights of unknoVJn origin were observed on ti: ~ W.arch 6, 7, 8 and 17, 1949, by military personnel of the alert force stationed a.ppro:x:imately 1000 yards east of the fences ,·,hich surround Killeen Base. ti: 0 u The object sighted on March 31, 1949 was reported as being of a ~ a Reference is made to San Antonio letter to the Bureau dated March different nature from the lights seen earlier in the month. It is noted that Mr . WALTEi)\."W April 3, 1949, stated that 11flying dis emanated from Russia. ilTCHELL, on his ~ 11 seen in this 4th Army, contacted had any information that wruld substa evening broadcast, ry defd.nitely ,:i,ffice, inquiring as or discredit the state- Ckl April 4, 1949, G- 2, to whether vre ments made by WALTER WilJCHELL. JEJ:ED 100-7545 LU 0 0:: 0 u wn::: z ::::i
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