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This is Section 5 of the FBI's flying disk file 62-HQ-83894, made up of 1949 and 1950 correspondence. Most of it covers a letter sent to Walter Winchell by Peter Camerlon Jones, who said he saw a silver top-shaped object near Los Angeles in 1947. The Los Angeles office could not find him, and the Bureau suggested the letter was a prank. The section also holds a Navy intelligence report on 6 or 7 discs seen over southern Oregon on 27 May 1949, plus several letters from citizens.
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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INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE Alcohol Tax Court. U. S. TREASURY DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF DISTRICT SUPERVISOR DISTRICT No. 9, ALCOHOL TAX UNIT 734 NEW POST OFFICE BUILDING CHICAGO 7, ILL. April 4. 1950 Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington D. C This is not an April Fort joke. Saturday, April 1, 1950 at about 6 P.M. Saver driving north on Route 47. West of Genera, Illinois and a little north of St. Charles, Illinois. Just ahead thru the windshield I saw a library white object in the sky. It was traveling west at about the speed of an airplane. It were shaped like this. I was driving at 35 M.P.H. and slowed down to 20 M.P.H. to watch this object. It went behind a white cloud and I continued to watch but the object did not come out from behind the cloud so far as I could see. Genera is 35 miles west of Chicago, and just north of Chicago is the Glennview Airport, operated by the Mary. The Saturday Evening Post carried an article sometime ago about flying saucers and it said to report anything like the above to the F.B.I. Nois Saura M. C. Haskey 201. 1. 10 at St. Genera, Ill. on Pm. 734 New Post Office, Chicago
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Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 209 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.