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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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# CONFIDENTIAL Receipt from IVA 3-13-50 CWBajo DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY STAFF COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE CONFIDENTIAL PRIORITY PARAPHRASE NOT REQUIRED 3001-1 From: COMGENARMYTHREE Ft McPherson Ga To: Dept of Army for Director of Intel 5- I dislike Nr: AJACI-3-5 3206 9 Mar 50 Reour TWX AJACI-3-3 subject reported radar sightings over Oakridge, additional info indicates radar operator inexperienced and radar set has been modified so as to cast doubt on reliability of reading. Chief Tennessee Mil Dist recommends expeditious action be taken to determine whether an unknown object has reappeared over Oakridge in the past few days. Chief Security Div at Oakridge requested info as to channels of communication with Air Force in connection with radar sightings. DECLASSIFIED Authority: NND 90986 Note: Ref is CM IN 12184 (4 Mar) G-2 ACTION: G-2 RECORDED - 104 62-83894-218 INFO: G-3 OF IN 13022 MAR 37 1950 (10 Mar 50) DTG: 091430Z fmb/B 20 MAR 10 50 CONFIDENTIAL
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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.