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.
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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 \_. • Office Memorandum • uNrTEn sTATEs GovERNMENT ,i>f" TO DIRECTOR, FBI DATE: July 21, 1949 ~ FROM SAC, NEW ORLEANS SUBJECT: YLnNG DISCS AND SAUCERS MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATICN CONCERNING For the Bureau's information, several citizens in the community of Alexandria, Louisiana, have recently reportedly seen flying discs. The Alexan dria, Louisiana daily paper has carried nUJD3rous articles concerning this. At a recent meeting of the Young Mens Business Club in Alexandria, a member suggested that since Alexandria, Louisiana is known as a convention city, the club should try promoting a convention of flying saucer seers. This particu lar comment appeared in the Alexandria paper and was picked up by the JJ' lines. Mr. A. M_y"D~GELO, a member of the Young Mens Business Club, advised Special Agent WALTER E. )()EJU..E that since the JJ' release, they have received a large number of requests regarding the convention of flying saucer seers from many parts of the United States. Mr. DeANGELO wt.ates that the interest of the people is evidenced by their inquiries about convention particulars, stating they are flying saucer seers and want to attend such a convention. This gentleman further advised that in view of the volume of inquiries coming in, it appears that the YMBC will have to hire an employee to handle all the correspondence. It might be noted that he advised a representative of the Air Force from Barksdale Field, Louisiana, has inquired as to plans of a .flying saucer convention, stating that they are interested in furnishing an observer if such a convention were held. This information is being furnished the Bureau, as it is possible such an enterprise may cause people to falsify that they have seen flying discs or fly ing saucers. Such falsifications might be made so that they might attend such a convention or become official delegates thereto. WEM:gp 62-0 63JUL29 · ,
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.