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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.
' e Port Allegany, Pa• lonmber 18, 19,1. Pederal Bureau ot Inveatigation, Pittsburgh, Pa• Gentlemen, ~l~owing the appearance in thi• town on Jbvember 6, 1947, or a Mr• J~~ppincott~ .Director of the Eaatern Area, Red Cross, Pittsourgn.Jlia., aa speaker of the eve~r,", at the annual looal Red Croes dinner, I aa told by Dr• H. B, Cro~, local pra.otioing\J dentiat, that in a personal connrea 1 n, lowi:ng the dinner, !lr• Lippincott told him that the •aauoere" reported as seen in "Tarioue parts of the country, were aotually tror:. Spain. He eaid that Mr• Lippincott said tha.t thil! had oeen aeoertained by the Government in r..aahington, but that it 110.a not being made known. He said that. 'r• Lippincott had been in &.trope and interred that he had been in Spain and kr:ew conditions ovor there. Dr. Cranwell ie a man active in the Methodist Chruch and the looal Protestant ens Club, and it is easy to see how tar thie report can be spread. The taot that the Federal Government indorsee the Red Crose makes a atatement of an ofCioial reprenntative ot that organisation almost indisputable. Aa a repreeentatiTe tu ot the Federal Government and ae a o1t11en interested in truth and World peace and racial and religious harmony in our own country, I queation the ad'Yieability or an aooredit.d repreRentatin ot the Red Crose giTtng out thi• information. even "ott the Noord". I thought you might be able to oheok with Mr• Lippin- cott or his organia.ti:-n. Tours v,..ry truly, r.ll.) ~~ a
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.