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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.
“Coast to Coast AM”1 page
Subj: Unidentified Phenomena
(e) The objects sighted have been described as follows:
(1) To Lt Smith and crew it appeared as two orange lights rotating about a common center, "like two jet aircraft making slow rolls in tight formation". It had a wide speed range.
(2) To Morgan, EIC, and Carver, it appeared as a reddish orange ball of fire about one foot in diameter, travelling at a high rate of speed.
(3) To Lt Gauser, Lt Barco, and Paulson, AD1, it appeared to be a pulsating orange yellow projectile shaped flame, with regular period of pulsation on 3 to 5 seconds, off 3 to 5 seconds. Later, as the object increased the range the pulsations appeared to increase to on 7 to 8 seconds and off 7 to 8 seconds.
3. A check with the Navy Weather Central, Kodiak, Alaska revealed that balloons were released at the following times:
22 January - 0445. and 2200W (aporoximately)
23 January - 0400. (aporoximately)
4. On 23 January winds aloft at 1000 feet were reported at 04007 as from $ 310^{\circ} $ T at 36 knots, and at 2000 feet from $ 240^{\circ} $ T at 37 knots, while the object was reported to be on an ascending - westerly course.
In view of the fact that no weather balloons were known to have been released within a reasonable time before the sightings, it appears that the object or objects were not balloons. If not balloons the objects must be regarded as phenomena (possibly meteorites), the exact nature of which could not be determined by this office. Not linked to a story yet.
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 209 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.