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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.
•I .., Miss Ua rion DeuBcher January 14, 1948 /j 604 est Mai n Street Menomon ee Fal ls , ¥ts constn Dear Mis s Beusc~er: Your letter of January 5, 1948, has been recetued and I want to t~an k you /or fo r warding informatton to Me relat tn g to the su bject you ment ioned. The facts you relat ed, however, do not ref lect any violation of a Federal statute ~ithtn the inuestt gative jurtsdtctton of the FBI . T\e thoughts prompting your communtcatton are tndeed apprect at ed . Sincerely yours, John Edgar Hoouer Di rector W'N : cm NOTE : Correspondent reports corr es pondence she has had with the Ziff -Davis Publishinp Company i n connection with the "flying saucers" which were observed by her brother . She is of the optnton that thts publication may be trying to conceal information related to our Nation ' s s ecu rity and s he mentions a threat t~at doe s not re/en inju r y to pe r son or property. ..., ri ~ r ;i;• :z: ~ c..r, I ::, :::0 co~.i,. •""-> .:::- .0~ 71 0 /)11~ IJ,) -o ::c: ....c:.. ~ \/'1/ J ¥ ~ CUMMUNtCATtOHS SECTt MAILED 8 JAN 15 1948 P.M. ffOEll-l llll!t'.AII or ll!V£8TIOATfOI U. S• .ult'~lll!EHJ OF JUSJICf I
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.