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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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DXC=11ND Serial 88-49
Subject: Unidentified Flying Objects - Report 07.
observed the objects. This position could possibly be as much as five miles SSW of the position given. Source's location when objects left his visual range was $ 4 2^{\circ} 4 1^{\prime} \mathrm{N}, 1 1 9^{\circ} 4 9^{\prime} \mathrm{W} $ . Source flow in a straight line between these coordinates.
location of objects when first observed; $ 4 2^{\circ} 3 8^{\prime} \mathrm{N}, 1 1 9^{\circ} 4 3^{\prime} \mathrm{N}。 $ location of objects when last counts $ 4 2^{\circ} 2 8^{\prime} \mathrm{N}, 1 1 9^{\circ} 4 8^{\prime} \mathrm{N}。 $ The objects made a slight change of course from quartering to parallelling source's straight line of flight.
REPORTING OFFICER'S COMMENT: It is believed that conventional aircraft, balloons, astronomical phenomena, and auto-hypnosis can be eliminated as an explanation for the objects sighted by sources. Since source was not flying into the sun and since he is an export pilot-instructor, VENTZOO does not appear to be a reasonable explanation nor do reflections on, or irregularities of, the plentiful glass canopy through which source viewed the objects offer a reasonable explanation, because of the wide range of observations of the objects. As far as the reporting officer's comment is concerned (as well as source's own comment) the explanation of source's sighting of the strange flying objects remains a question mark. Not linked to a story yet.
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.