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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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ISSUED BY THE INTELLIGENCE DIVISION OFFICE OF CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS NAVY DEPARTMENT # INTELLIGENCE REPORT [Start here once, 1. e. 1-43, 2-51] [To correspond with SUBJECT given below. Sea O. N. L. Index Guide Make separate report for each main title.] Reference G10 Cont Ser 04422P32 dtd 4 Nov 1948, nrbj: Flying Disc - Report QC. (Directive, correspondence, previous related report, etc. If applicable) A-1 to 6-O pt: A6/52M 3-10; SSR, —11-19-62 Subject Unidentified Flying Objects = Report Of. [Nofian resorted on] [Main title on per index guide] [Subtitles] [Make separate report for each title] ERIHP—(More on careful summary of report, enclosing substance succinctly stated; Include important facts, names, places, dates, etc.) BRIEF: While flying north in a private plane source, who is believed to be reliable, saw 6 or 7 "flying discs" in southern Oregon 27 May 1949. The discs are described as elongated ovals, perhaps 20 in length; they flaw in a steady file formation at between 200 to 250 MPH; they appeared to be made of enpainted metal; no smoke or exhaust trails were observed. SOURCE: LT30 Joseph C. SHELL, A5(L), USNR (Inactive), Serial #348375, of 4575 Northridge Drive, Los Angeles, California. He was commissioned Ensign 5 January 1944. Served at Corpus Christie 30 days AF(T); in Dallas two months VRF=2(D). Ferried SNF's from North American Company plants. Was at Willow Grove, Pennsylvania for 30 days. Served at check-out base for ferry squadron VRF(2) at Columbus; served at Columbus until August 1945. Scores then was with VRF(3) at Terminal Island, California, where he became legal and personnel officer. Was discharged from the Navy in January 1946 as LT30. Source holds Naval Aviator's Certificate #0-17945, plus a senior pilot's rating in the Ferry King of the Naval Air Transport Command. He also holds a commercial license, single and multi-engine, and flight instructor's ratings. His flight time began in 1934 and now totals over 5000 hours, of which time 1300 hours were in the U.S. Navy. Source secured a private license in 1935, a transport license in 1937, a commercial pilot's license in 1938, and a re-issue commercial pilot's license in 1945 (r184256). From March 1943 to September 1943 he was flight instructor for the Army Air Force (5 months as primary instructor at Cal-Aero, and the balance of the time as basic instructor at Lancaster, California). From September 1943 to January 1944 no flow for the Superior Oil Company of California. Since 1940 source has been Vice-President of the Royal Petroleum Company of California, Long Beach, a concern in which he and his relations own all of the stock; he also is part-owner of three other oil producing companies in Southern California. Source is married and has three children. He has a B.S. and B.A. degree from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. He also had two years of law at the University of Southern California. Source is thirty years of age, but appears to have a background of experience few men his age possess. He is believed to be conservative, sincere, absolutely reliable, and very competent. Routing options below for use in G. H. I. MIX (Original and Master Data); DXO-LIND RECL. DI WALF only.
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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.