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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Memorandum • UNITED sTATEs GOVERNMENT
DATE:ro : DIRECTOR, FBI
floM ')>C RICHMOND
SUBJB<-f!,LY~ DISCS SIGIITED /J RADFORD, VIRGINIA
HAY 12, 1949
Ther0 are enclosed 4;,:we,- clippings concerning what has
been described as a :lying disc sighted at Radford, Virginia on
l!ay 12, 1949. The Bureau may desire to refer this to the Department
of the Air Force . This office has no infor,nation other than that
appearing in the news items which appear to cover the best inforn:ation
avai lable. The matter was not reported directly to this office and,
therefore, no investigation or inquiries are being made and none of X'
the individuals who allegedly saw the thing have been interviewed. U
ELB:GTC
~ Enclosures (2)
1~ -_J}lJ..1:- 11
11 MAY 25 1949
RICORDED · 78
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