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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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' ) . • ~:~ Ila:, 3, 1949 \~~ i r:Z-f3P9d /4 '" vr. Care; T6av s 141 Clai~Dr~ve, Southeast Atlanta, Georgia EX-43 Dear l!r. Davis: Your letter of April Z7, 1949, has been received, and I want to thank you for sending cie the newspaper clipping which you enclosed toget her nth your observations Iconcerning tho designs you aubmitted to the federal governoont 1n 1942. Although I would like to be of service, checks of the type you desire are not w1thin the scope of this Bureau•s activities. It was very thoughtful of you to contact me in that regard. Sincerely ~ura, John Edgar Hoover Director WN:rlc J<-p. 11r. Touon Ill'. Clegg - llr. Olavln Ill', Ladd:--_-_-_ llr. Nichols__ ::~:~~-Mr.. Egan.__ Mr. Gumea__ llr. Harbo__ llr. Mohr~~ Mr.. PeDJ'llngtOll:_ 11r. Quinn Tam_ Tele. Roo•-- :;,NeO::r-
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.