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.
“Charles Fort”1 page
~ 1515 • 9th St. Yichita Falls, Texas Aug. 5, 1948 Publisher, Atlanta Journal, Atlanta, Georgia. Dear Sirs On Jul.7 25, 1948, I mailed a letter enclosing .35 cents i:u coin and an airmail aelf•addreseed enTelop to your circu.lation department, asking for tear sheet ■ of the Atlanta Journal oontaininc the stories on a "strange" or 11JIIY'sterious" aircraft seen aear Monteo11e1"7, Alab&111a, July 24, 1948, by two pilots, Cap't c. s. Chiles and John». Whitted, of the Eastern Air Lines. These have not arr1Ted. I _asked for two copies each of the stories. Enclosed is an additional .35 cents, and another sta11ped self-ad dressed envelop. Will you kindly aee that your circulation department com plies with this simple request? I assure you that my interest in the above stories is prompted by interest in the defense of our count1"7, and you are hereby given my fullest pel'Dlission to turn this letter requ.esti~ the copies of the stories over to the J'.BI, should you wish. Thanking you Tery kindly, I am, Sincerely, /s/ Mra. Madeline Gwynne Merchant Mra. Madeline Gw,ynne Merchant cc/Agent-In-Chari• 7ederal !ureau of Inve■ tigation Atlanta, Georgia
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.