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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TO THE DIRECTOR DATE: -July 20 ,
FROM D. M . LADD p,-,
SUBJECT:
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You will recall that Mr . Ernest Cuneo advised
the Bureau of a letter which Walter Winchell had received
from an ind i vidual in Los Angeles indipaJing that he had
seen a flying saucer leave the ground within h i s view and in
which letter he theori2ed that this mi ght have been a land ing
from another planet. (
The Los Angeles Office was re quested to locate and
interview the writer of this letter , Peter Camerlon Jones , 164
West 37th St r eet , Los Angeles 7 , California .
The Los Angeles Office has now advised that the
present owner and former manager at this address have no
knowl edge of any Peter Camerlo~nes and that other investigation
to locate Jones was unproductive . It would appear , th~,;,efore ,
that this may have been a prank. ;;,
You may desi r e to advise Mr. Cuneo that there is no
such person at the address given inasmuch as he indicated that
Mr . Winchell ;ntend✓o do a ol umn on this litte r.
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