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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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# Office Memorandum . UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : MR. A. H. BELMONT DATE: April 8, 1950 FROM : W. T. BROOKING SUBJECT: FLYING SAUCER COMPLAINT EIMIRA, NEW YORK PD INFORMANT Reference teletype dated April 8, 1950, from the Buffalo Office advising that information had been received from the Elmira Police Department regarding a flying saucer and advising that press inquiries are being answered by the Buffalo Office. Mr. V. P. Keay was contacted and he advised that the Duty Officer at the Office of Special Investigations, Inspector General, Air Force, should be contacted and furnished the information regarding the flying saucer. RECORDED - 53 Captain Ralph C. Williams, Air Force, Duty Officer, was telephonically contacted and furnished the information regarding the flying saucer. SA Robert Cryan of the Buffalo Office was telephonically contacted and advised of the above instructions. SA J. J. McGuire was contacted and advised of the teletype and that a statement was contained therein that press inquiries had been received and were being answered. McGuire instructed that the Buffalo Office be telephonically contacted and advised that they should furnish the information regarding the flying saucer to the Air Force Office in that area and that any press inquiries regarding the flying saucer should be referred to the Air Force in that area. WTB:hke 62-83894 222 APR 19 1950 37 5 - EHw V66 10 15 32 6H 20
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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.