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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• •·-- May 10 , 1949 RECORDED - 135 r!DEXED - 135 I I? To : Director of Special Investi gations , (I. O. ) . •apartment of the Air Force The j>enta0 on Washi ngton 25 , D. C. From: John Edgar Hoover - Director , Federal Bo.reau of Investigation Subject: INFORW TION CONClOOUNO FLYING SAUCERS HR3. FRAi.~ARDNhla - INl:"t>ruwrr Enclosed is a photostatic copy of a letter dated April 29. 1949, received by this Bureau from Mra. Frank ~ardner concerning flying saucers. The correspondent ho.s been advised tna.t a copy of her letter haa been forwarded to the United States Air i orce. This letter is beine, forwarded to you for any action you~ deem advisable. 11r. Nease U18t Oe.ndy GOMMUNIC!fflONS SECTION BY SPECIAL,,-l.ll(SSENGER * MAY 11 1949 * FE?IWL E~REAU OF fll.ii:STIGlTIOII ll. S, llf.PAIIMHT Of JUSTICE >'Rl,:jmf M llr. Tolson llr. Clegg - llr. Olavln :: lti~~:=1-.;;.,:::-_-_ Ill'. Rosen - llr. Tracy-- ,.,-. 1:gan_:::::== ::~~~~ : : ~~:::;"""tng=to=n- llr. Qu1an Tam Tele. Room_·_
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 214 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.