65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 004

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.

t..cy 10, 1949
.Mr& • Frank{c.rdner
2310 w. oJrt;r
1 .onte , Celifornin
Dear ra . Gardner:
I wish to acknowledge your letter d:lted April 29, 3.9~.9 , .nc. to
exprou ..iy npprecio.tion for your thou.ght!ulneos in writing tone .
In Tiew of the contente ot you.r letter , l have taken the liberty
of sending n copy to the Uni ted Stutes Air orce .
In the future , it you have information which tl8Y be of interest
to this .Bureau, you lllDY find it more convenient to communicnte with .r. R. n.
Hood, Special Agent 1n Charge of our Loa Angeles Office, 900 Secu.rit7 Building,
Loa Angeles 13, California .
.lincerely ;youra ,
Jo.nn "Edgor noover
irector
I{?C~ Los Angeles with cop e~' -Of incoming.
The corresponctent communicated with the Bureau on one previous occasion
enclosing a clipping from a Spanish lan&11age newspaper in T~xas. She was apparent
ly dissatisfied with the oanner in which the Latin Americans were being treated
in Texas . A cordial letter of acknowledgement was sent to her. (100-33339)
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* f.,H\Y 10 1949 P.M.