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.
. ·"' C • • 0 •py KENNETH L. FRAZIER • Colo. or a little to the south . I live almost due east about 180 mi. by air and I looked to the south a l ittle to be able to get sight of object . This object was also witnessed by my son who was with me at the time . I saw the smoke cloud left by so called meteor which exp loded ouer at Norton_Kans. This object was not~ br ight ball of fire like it was . The siluer streak in the sky traveled as if it were a long connected ~t reak. This did n~t resemble a line of smoke left by a train trave l tng along it moued altogether as a unit . If it is not against any regulation and if possible would like to have answer to this object . C 0 p y
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.