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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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• •• > PH 62-2542 MARQUARDT adv· sed that he had been employed by the Atomic Energy Commission at Oak Ridge until 1943. He was entirely rational. He discounted the theory that a portion of a rooteor had struck the house on the basis of the chemical analysis made by the City Chemical Laboratory. MARQUARDT advised that at the suggestion of the City authorities, he had written to SHAEFF'ffi and suggested that any further in quiries be directed to the State Police. The file of the Philadelphia Office reflect that the records of Immigration aJ)d Naturalization Service were negative to an inquiry concern ing FREDERIC S4ARQUARDT, OEM (Bureau File ?7- 30'S7) . The files of this office likewise reflect that M.ARQUARDT by letter received August 14, 194?, requested of this office the identity of a powder or dust used to catch thieves. Inasmuch as there is no yiql.F'ti.9n indicated within the Bureau I s jurisdiction, there is no further investigation being conducted in this matter. However, the ash residue obtained from the Fil·e t.arshal ' s Office is being forvrarded to the Bureau Laboratory for any interest or study the Laboratory may desire to conduct relative to flares or in connection with the possibility of the presence of "flying saucers" • - CLa3ED - - 3 -
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.