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.
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• UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
To ~~rector, FBI D ATE : 12/28/48
FR~ { \ Ac, Houston
syBJ: ~ YING PISCt;: L,
l_; LONNIE EDWo/OACK, Complainant
Attention: Assistant Director D. M. Ladd
Remytel 12/28/48 in the above captioned matter.
F9,P-"'the BU7eau's information, on 12/27/48 Mr. FULLER
"1:fLACKWELL, an attorney with offices 410 Kress BuiLding,
Houston, Texas, telepho~ically contacted the~oton
Office to advise that he had a friend, LONNI OACK,
who had some information on an object which ight be
a flying disc. Mr . BLACKWELL stated he was calling in
response to Mr. NOACK's suggestion and as a means of
determining what authorities would have an interest
in this matter . He said Mr . NOACK was a machinist
employed by the Humble 011 and Refining Company, Houston.
Mr. BLACKWELL, in calling, advised that the disc, or
object , was approximately eight feet i n diameter, had a
tail and wings, and apparently was equipped for jet
propulsion. He stated NOACK had observed this.object
at a desert location near Las Vegas, Nevada; further,
that Mr. NOACK had taken some movie film of the disc and
that this film was currently in his possession.
Immediately upon receipt of the above information,
Mr. Robert B. Fleming, Special Agent, o.s.r., Ellington
Field, Texas, was notified as was true of Captain Harold
Bush, MID representative, also Houston. As a result of
these referrals, arrangements were effected with Mr.
NO~ to bring his film to the Houston Office for a showi
~~ P.M., 12/27/48. This was done with Messrs . Bush,
~~~leming, Noack, and Special Agent Graham W. Kitchel and
~~Cj\,)~C).,, the writer observing. Arrangements were then made for ~
~ - Mr. NOACK to again a~pear at the Houston Office on the
i \\ morning of 12/28/48 in order that his information might be
&:duced to writing. Mr . NOACK in making his initial
w>pearance at the office surrendered his movie film which
~ ~ consisted of one 50 foot roll of 8 nim mov1e •f11m. Approximately
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\"\)°'t\, • 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.