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.

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1515 - 9th St.
Wichita lalla, Texas
A~. 5, 1948
~nt-In-Oharge,
Federal 1'ureau. of InTestigation,
Atlanta, Georgia.
Dear Sirs
Enclosed is a carbon ot a letter requ.estin& tear sheeta of the un
usual aircraft •een near Montgomery, Alabama, Jul7 24, 1948, storiea con•
cernin& which wen carried by AP and UP, ori~inati~ in Atlanta.
It 'IDlq h&Ye been overai«ht by someone in the cire11lation dep 1 t of
the Atlanta Journal, or it mq have been 1 alarm" that a woman vould_be re
queatinc thi• tn,e ot information, even thoU€h it was published, and there
b7 open information.
ETen thou«h I cann~t identify Jqaelf to the Atlanta Journal publisher
or staff, I can to you. I have worked independently on the problem of aerial
llieail••• of which I believe this was an example, with all rrr data ~ing di
rectly to officials and member■ of the security o:f'tice of the Atomic Enera
Con., Los Alamos Atomic ProJect, Los Alamos, W.M. , and to hi«h members of
the War Department, including Gen. Thomas T. lland7• J'ourth U. s. Anq Coa
mander, 1t. Saa Xouston, Tex., head of this u. s. J.:nq district.
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