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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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THE INSPECTOR GENERAL USAF 17TH DISTRICT OFFICE OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, NEW MEXICO File No: 24-0-0 Reid from O.S.I. 7-14 050 ESS cjo 5 July 1950 SUBJECT: UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT sighted on 29 June 1950 at Phoenix, Arizona SPECIAL INQUIRY TO: Director of Special Investigations Headquarters, United States Air Force Washington 25, D. C. Keay Henrich 1. Reference is made to Spot Report TWX from this Headquarters dated 30 June 1950, making reference to an undenified flying object sighted on 29 June 1950 at Phoenix, Arizona. 2. An interview with 1st Lt. JOHN D. FINK, A0-823052, 93rd Fighter Squadron, Kirtland AFB reveals that on 29 June 1950 at approximately 18h0 hours Lt. FINK sighted this object. Lt. FINK climbed to 47,000 while flying an F-86 aircraft and observed that the object was a bright balloon with instruments attached and was floating at an altitude of 50,000 feet. 3. Lt. FINK described the speed of the balloon as being very slow and further described the balloon as being an "inverted tear drop". 4. Inasmuch as the previously unidentified object has been positively identified as a balloon, further investigation will not be conducted in this incident. RICHARD G. COX MAJOR , USAF District Commander Due fete File in 62-83894 full 5 EHW 12 JUL 1930 63AUG2 1950
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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.