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.

•llnihb 8tate.s ilepartment of 1.fmitice
Post Office Box 1850
Atlanta 1. Georgia
August 10, 1948
AIRMAIL SPECIAL D!J'.,IV]J.RY
Director, J'l3I
Rill 'MRS. MADBLINE G~ER~;
INFOBMA.TlOB! CONC:&RNING
Dear Sir: f-.L I;11 Co })1 ~ c....)
Transmitted herewith for the ltureau 1 s information are
copies of a letter, together with enclosure, froa the aboTe
captioned individual.. I:aaa1111.1ch aa there is n.o record in this
office concerning captioned person, no reply has been made to
instant letter. with the tho~t the Bureau may desire to acknow
le~e instant coll!llWlication or communicate further concerning
the matter with the Dallaa Office.
For the information ot the Bureau and the Dallas and
San Antonio Officea, the clippiDgs referred to are transmitted
herewith to the l3ureau, Dallas and San Antonio Office•, it being
noted that Wichita ll'alla it covered by Dallas and !'ort Sam Hous
ton is covered by the San Antonio Office.
Very truly yours,
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