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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.
“Socorro, New Mexico”1 page
Arter we r1ntshed taking our pictures and d1scuaet.ng the object among ourselves, Mr. PER.SOK expreaaed an 1ntent1on or obtaining a truck and hauling the object to his ehop. I cannot say at th1• tiJJle whether he did th1a or not or where the object uy be at this particular ·date. Ve r1n1ehed ' our observation and picture taking at approx1.Jllatel7 5i30 or 6 P.M. on December 7. In reaponae to Mr. Fleming'• inquiry, there waa np"> radio equipment noted on the obJect 1n any: tashion or rorm. We returned to Pasadena, California, that evening arriving 1n Hollywood about 9 or 9,30 P.JII. I took some more pictures that night along BollJW00d Boule•ard on the unt1n1ahed roll or t1lm and then wetn over the Chinese 'l'heatre an4 took a picture or the a1anature or George "Hart and r1ntahed the 1"011. I bought another roll or tilm, and took them to the Eastman Xodak Company the following JIOnday which would be December 13, 1948. A• I Noall, thia la•tman shop waa ,on Loa Palmaa Street 1n Loa Angeles, Cal1tomia. !hey 1nfo1"1114td me they- would deYelop the tilm and that it would be ready on Thur1da,t.. I lett - Cal1torn1a on Wednesday so they uiled the t11a to me at IQ' buaineaa addreaa, Bumble 011 Building, Rooa 159, Houston, Texas. I received th••• tilma on Deoeaber 23, 1948. After J.AY return from California I mentioned to several ~ rq bua.ineaa and •oetii.l acQuaintancea that I bad aecn t>.1• object, a. dise or saucer or whatever 7ou Jil.1.ght call it, and tolcl the• that I had taken pictures and would be glad to ahow them when the picture• arriYed. Aa atatedi I Nce1Yed the 111m on December 23 and at 1:30 P.N. on the same date I •bowed the t1lm ~n the projection room at 11\mble 011 to the tol1ow1ng1 D.W. BLAIR; J. HA.'l'TAWAY; d.A. PETERS0JIJ JAMES 8. OLIVI!R; VILLIAN JtIED, JR.; A.E. MBLETON; WAYRE CRAVPOJU>s D.A. BATTLE and two other snen whose names I do not recall. All or theae men work 1n the tnatrwnent ahop with• at HUllble 011 Is Refining Company. I also showed the fil.JI to ay lbrother-1n-law# E. JtULAK, or Pasaaena, Texa■, at home on the tollowlng night. On: Chriatmaa Day I met •o• friends and one ot the girle wu with a young bo7 who waa intereated 1n photography. l do not know tiia naJM but he work• at Southern Pacitic. I told him I had aome pictures or the fly~ d1•c but I did not show him the pictures but explained the di■ c. I think thia boy 18 the peNon who had hie friend at the 11ewepaper contact me.
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