Documents / Official release
No summary written yet.
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.
-- TO ,, c:!Jr--aoM SAC, SUBJECT: te Memor • m • UNITED ST/i JVERNMENT - DATE: 10/18/47Director, FBI Anchorage ( REPORT OF FLYING DISCS This is to advise that we have been able to locate a .flyer, JA~K, who is employed by the Al Jones Flying Compa.cy in Bethel, .Alaska. It bad been ~ported to Military Intelligence that Mr . PECK and his co-pilot VIN AJJi bad observed sane flying object near Bethel, Alaska, in July, 194 Eff or ts previously to contact Mr. PECK were negative until the above instance. He related that the occasion of seeing the flying object near Bethel was on a July day when the sky was completely clear of clouds, am it being during the early part, it is daylight the entire night. The time of bis sighting this flying object was about 10 FM and the sun had just dropped beyom the horizon. Flyir€ weather was extremely good am he, with Mr . DALY, was coming into the Bethel Airport with a DC-J. He observed the flyiq,; object immediately to his left alli stated that it apparently was observed at approximately the same time by Mr . DAIX am both of them· manipulated the controls of the plane ma.king efforts to miss the object inasmuch as they could not tell in which direction it was going. They made a forty-five degree t urn in order to get out of the way of the object arxi then noted that it appeared to be going away from them. He described the object as appearing to be some flying wing arxi s said that it appeared to be about the size of a C-54 without any fuselage . He could not see any propellor or any exhaust f r om jet propulsion or any vapor trails arxi could not estimate the size due to his failure to be able to estimate the distance he was away from the object . He was flying at 1 , 000 feet and stated that he tried to catch up with the object am in creased his manifold pressure to approximately 42 inc hes am was traveli!)g at the rate of 170 miles per hour. ~t.A-,,L- '-. cc:::::: He called on his radio to the Civil Aeronautics J,dminis tration station at Bethel, asking what aircraf't was in the vicinity am they bad no reports of any aircraft . The object he s ighted vras some five or ten miles from the airport before his arrival and stated that the path did not go directly across the airport. He, of course, could not tell whether the object was making aey noise arxi stated that it was flying at a thousand foot altittrle am estimated travel at 300 miles per hour. It was travel ing in the direction from Bethel to Nome, which is in a northwesterly direction. He noted no radio interference and is unable to describe the color other than that it appeared dark but of definite shape a nd did not bl erxi into the sky but had a definite, concise outline . a oth he and Mr. DALY clearly observed the object at this time. ~JtJoOR.u,el) ,/ g ~ ii::lCD \bl:1J 8'7T- I ~ \"?:>\ p acr ~rx1•i . ~ O'), ~~~ ( QIJJ!' ~
Not linked to a story yet.
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.