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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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_,.,.... t .. 'I - f .,, ' . • ~fl t.• ~ ,. San lllis Obispo , California Tay 15 , 1949 " 1'Talter Winchell New Yorlt, New York VDear Si r : Under attached cover you will find a ample our item. Should vou do no more than take ou ~LY]Ji' SA.UCE!l out , care fully r ead the instructi ons , and fly it; I will have accom plished a portion of my e~ectations . For the past few weeks I have list,..ned with mor e than an in different attitude , to y,ur various Sunday evening broadcasts and col!llllents concerniPg Flyinp f aucers . From the start , much as many another individual who has tried to get ahead by his ovm initiative , I have v i sial ized what the right type of publicity would do for my interests . To state my actions in any other manner, would belittle your intelliRence , and the werks of forethought and sincerity in which this is submitted . Your coJ11IDent this evening, concerning the Gyroscopic Theories, snarkplu~~ed my actions . Along ~1 ith the phases of merchandising mentioned in the att ached articl es , I should like to mention that one troop of Boy Scouts in Los Angeles are purchasing and Fnthusiastic ally include the~ fls a major portion of their recreation program. By th~se facts , it is apparent that our LYilJ ' SAUC~ is worthy of every effort we are able to summons in makin~ it ';2. :r anot~1).merican pastime of Yo-Yo proportions . / b,'trt~ ti~cffelga.$ Trusting that we are justified of you r consideration f r om a nevffi>rorthy standpo~ ;;:;r~ Yours, . ~ nMk ~1767 Conejo )r i ve San Luis Obispo , Califoria ftFr" r\.~~1) _S8 n ,v - r3 'f . t'S ~\) -~ ,~\_\)~ GY 51949
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.