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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Dear 11r . Beoton:
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concorntnr. the ~attar you enttonad. I~ was tndeed uery
thouQht/u , of you to re ort 'tha·,., c!at~ to thio org~ni ::oti on .
Sincerely yours~
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John Edgar Hoover
D'lroctor
NOTE: Co r respondent saw a small object in the sky near the
end of the day wh£ch took various shapes and thr ough glasses
appeared like a double bloom tratltng something below tt . .
She beltves tt might be a flying dtsK . In vi ew of her nebulous
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